A long-term increasing aridification and cooling trend at the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Pliocene

Zhao, GuoyongLiu, XiumingChen, QuLu, BinChang, LiaoNiu, HewenLi, PingyuanGuo, HuiLiu, Zhi2015-12-101040-6182http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59269The development of Asian aridification and cooling is a research hotspot nowadays. Loess-Red Clay sequence in the Chinese Loss Plateau provides an excellent terrestrial archive of such paleoclimatic evolution. This paper applied the magnetic "unmixing" teKeywords: aridification; chemical weathering; climate variation; cooling; hematite; loess; maghemite; magnetic method; magnetite; monsoon; paleoclimate; paleosol; Pliocene; remanent magnetization; uplift; China; Loess Plateau; Qinghai-Xizang PlateauA long-term increasing aridification and cooling trend at the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Pliocene201310.1016/j.quaint.2013.02.0252016-02-24