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Is There a Time-Transgressive Holocene Optimum in the East Asian Monsoon Area?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Weijian Zhou ,
Shaohua Song ,
G Burr ,
A J T Jull ,
Xuefeng Lu ,
Huagui Yu  and
Peng Cheng
Weijian Zhou*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Shaohua Song
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
G Burr
Affiliation:
NSF-AMS Laboratory, Physics Building, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
A J T Jull
Affiliation:
NSF-AMS Laboratory, Physics Building, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Xuefeng Lu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Huagui Yu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Peng Cheng
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
*
Corresponding author. Email: weijian@loess.llqg.ac.cn
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We have carried out a multiproxy analysis of high-resolution eutrophic peat/mud, sand dune, and loess/paleosol sequences covering the Holocene period in both southern and northern China, in order to test the hypothesis of a time-transgressive Holocene optimum in the East Asian monsoon area (An et al. 2000). Samples were radiocarbon dated to establish the chronology. Our results indicate that the Holocene optimum occurred between ∼10,000–5000 cal yr ago in both southern and northern China, consistent with a global pattern rather than simply a local expression. Our data also support the conclusion that the evolution of Holocene climate in China is consistent with changes in Northern Hemisphere solar radiation.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , 2007 , pp. 865 - 875
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Copyright © 2007 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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