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Out-of-phase evolution between summer and winter East Asian monsoons during the Holocene as recorded by Chinese loess deposits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dunsheng Xia ,
Jia Jia ,
Guanhua Li ,
Shuang Zhao ,
Haitao Wei  and
Fahu Chen
Dunsheng Xia*
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Jia Jia
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Guanhua Li
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Shuang Zhao
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Haitao Wei
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
Fahu Chen
Affiliation:
MOE Key Laboratory of western China's Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address:dsxia@lzu.edu.cn (D. Xia).
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Abstract

We analyzed climate proxies from loessic-soil sections of the southern Chinese Loess Plateau. The early Holocene paleosol, S0, is 3.2 m thick and contains six sub-soil units. Co-eval soils from the central Loess Plateau are thinner (~ 1 m). Consequently higher-resolution stratigraphic analyses can be made on our new sections and provide more insight into Holocene temporal variation of the East Asian monsoon. Both summer and winter monsoon evolution signals are recorded in the same sections, enabling the study of phase relationships between the signals. Our analyses consist of (i) measurements of magnetic properties sensitive to the production of fine-grained magnetic minerals which reflect precipitation intensity and summer monsoon strength; and (ii) grain-size analyses which reflect winter monsoon strength. Our results indicate that the Holocene precipitation maximum occurred in the mid-Holocene, ~ 7.8–3.5 cal ka BP, with an arid interval at 6.3–5.3 cal ka BP. The winter monsoon intensity declined to a minimum during 5.0–3.4 cal ka BP. These results suggest that the East Asian summer and winter monsoons were out of phase during the Holocene, possibly due to their different sensitivities to ice and snow coverage at high latitudes and to sea-surface temperature at low latitudes.

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LoessHolocene climate evolutionEast Asian monsoon
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Quaternary Research , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 500 - 507
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University of Washington

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