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Climate change since 11.5 ka on the Diancang Massif on the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jiangqiang Yang ,
Wei Zhang ,
Zhijiu Cui ,
Chaolu Yi ,
Yixin Chen  and
Xiangke Xu
Jiangqiang Yang*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing 100085, China
Wei Zhang
Affiliation:
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dianlian 116029, China
Zhijiu Cui
Affiliation:
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Chaolu Yi
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing 100085, China
Yixin Chen
Affiliation:
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Xiangke Xu
Affiliation:
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
*
*Corresponding author.E-mail address:jqyang@pku.org.cn (J. Yang).
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Abstract

The Diancang Massif is located in a region linking the Tibetan and Yungui Plateaus. Climatically, it is in a transition belt between the south and middle subtropical zones, controlled by Indian monsoon and westerlies. Thus, this study provides more evidences on the evolution of Indian monsoon since the Holocene. We reconstruct the history of climate on the Diancang Massif since 11.5 ka, using integrated correlation of glacial activities, early human settlement sites, and climate proxies abstracted from variations in grain size, magnetic susceptibility, geochemical composition, and pollen in lacustrine sediments. Six climatic stages have been identified. Stage I, from 11.5 ka to 9.0 ka, is a relatively wet period, corresponding to the onset of the Holocene; from 9.5 ka to 6.0 ka, the climate is arid; a cold period follows from 6.0 ka to 5.3 ka, and this is succeeded by a temperate stage from 5.3 ka to 4.0 ka; from 4.0 ka to 0.73 ka the climate is again arid. Compared with other regions dominated by the Indian monsoon, there is a delay in response of the climate on the Diancang Massif to the onset of the Holocene.

Keywords

Diancang MassifClimate changeIndian MonsoonHolocene
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Original Articles
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Quaternary Research , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 304 - 312
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University of Washington

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