Eolian dust dispersal patterns since the last glacial period in eastern Central Asia: insights from a loess-paleosol sequence in the Ili Basin

Li, Yue; Song, Yougui; E. Fitzsimmons, Kathryn; Chang, Hong; Orozbaev, Rustam; Li, Xinxin

doi:10.5194/cp-14-271-2018

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Eolian dust dispersal patterns since the last glacial period in eastern Central Asia: insights from a loess-paleosol sequence in the Ili Basin

Published in Climate of the past • Mar 6, 2018

Authors:

Yue Li

Yougui Song

Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons

Abstract

Abstract. The extensive loess deposits of the Eurasian mid-latitudes provide important terrestrial archives of Quaternary climatic change. As yet, however, loess records in Central Asia are poorly understood. Here we investigate the grain size and magnetic characteristics of loess from the Nilka (NL...

Subject

Loess

Aeolian processes

Geology

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