Transformation functions of soil color and climate

Yang, Shengli; Fang, Xiaomin; Li, Jijun; An, Zhisheng; Chen, Shiyue; Fukusawa, Hitoshi

doi:10.1007/bf02911990

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“…Similar red colours in present-day soils are commonly found in Southern China where mean annual temperatures are 15-20°C. By contrast, present-day aeolian dust in Lanzhou is light yellow-grey in colour which corresponds to mean annual temperatures of~9.9°C at an altitude of 1500-2000 m. The colour difference between the late Tertiary sediments and present-day soils implies a temperature drop of 5-10°C from the late Tertiary with respect to the present according to the soil colour transfer function (Yang et al, 2001). Supposing this temperature difference is resulted from local surface uplift, the Fig.…”

Section: Palaeoenvironmental Evolution and Tectonic Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

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Zhang

Han

et al. 2011

Global and Planetary Change

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Section: Palaeoenvironmental Evolution and Tectonic Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Sun

Zhang

Han

et al. 2011

Global and Planetary Change

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“…Therefore, variations between reds and yellows may reflect the change of oxidation state of the Fe iron that is mostly controlled by temperature (e.g. Barrón and Torrent, 1987;Thompson and Bell, 1996;Yang et al, 2001;Sun D. et al, 2011c). Lightness, by contrast, is mainly connected to the change of organic matter regime, which in turn reflects the climate change (e.g.…”

Section: Colour Reflectance Variation and Its Paleo-environmental Impmentioning

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A high-resolution multi-proxy record of late Cenozoic environment change from central Taklimakan Desert, China

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Abstract. The Taklimakan Desert in the Tarim Basin is the largest desert in Central Asia, and is regarded as one of the main dust sources to the Northern Hemisphere. Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequences with intercalated in-situ aeolian dune sands in this area preserve direct evidence for the Asian desertification. Herein, we report a high-resolution multiproxy climatic record from the precise magnetostratigraphic dated Hongbaishan section in the central Taklimakan Desert. Our results show that a fundamental climate change, characterised by significant cooling, enhanced aridity, and intensified atmospheric circulation, occurred at 2.8 Ma. Good correlations between paleo-environmental records in the dust sources and downwind areas suggest a broadly consistent climate evolution of northwestern China during the late Cenozoic, which is probably driven by the uplift of the Tibet Plateau and the Northern Hemisphere glaciation.

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“…They are adopted by the Wangguan loess section and the Shagou loess section, respectively. Soil color has recently been adopted as a new indicator of summer monsoon [19,42,43] , so a* (redness) was selected as the indicator of summer monsoon for the two sections in this paper.…”

Section: Climatic Indicatorsmentioning

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Instability characteristics of the East Asian Monsoon recorded by high-resolution loess sections from the last interglacial (MIS5)

et al. 2007

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The selection of high-resolution loess sections is needed in order to determine the climatic variability of the East Asian Monsoon during the last interglacial. Two sequences of S1 on the eastern and western sides of the Liupan Mountain were both composed of five paleosol layers and four loess layers, indicating that there were five strong summer monsoon events and four strong winter monsoon events in MIS5. This corresponds with other records of the East Asian Monsoon, along with NGRIP and the North Atlantic records, implying that the climate of the Northern Hemisphere was very instable during the last interglacial. Two layers of paleosols and one layer of loess had developed during MIS5a and MIS5c. Compared with MIS5e, the climate in MIS5a and MIS5c fluctuated more intensively on a millennial scale, whereas the climate was relatively stable in MIS5e.last interglacial, paleosol, East Asian monsoon, Shagou loess section, Wangguan loess section, Liupan Mountain

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Transformation functions of soil color and climate

Cited by 69 publications

References 20 publications

Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

A high-resolution multi-proxy record of late Cenozoic environment change from central Taklimakan Desert, China

Instability characteristics of the East Asian Monsoon recorded by high-resolution loess sections from the last interglacial (MIS5)

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