OSL chronology of loess deposits in East China and its implications forEast Asian monsoon history

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	OSL chronology of loess deposits in East China and its implications forEast Asian monsoon history
	Lai, ZhongPing; Zhang, WeiGuo; Chen, Xi; Jia, YuLian; Liu, XiangJun; Fan, QiShun; Long, Hao
	2010
发表期刊	QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY
ISSN	1871-1014
卷号	5 期号:2 -3 页码:154-158
摘要	Controversy exists regarding the chronology of loess in the Nanjing area in Jiangsu Province and the Jiujiang area in Jiangxi Province, East China. The chronology is of special interest, because the age of the initial accumulation for loess in these areas indicates that dust accumulation has been extended from the Loess Plateau in North China to East China at that time. This implies a threshold in the evolution of the East Asian monsoon, with the strengthened winter monsoon transporting aeolian dust further to the south. In this study nine luminescence samples were collected from the Jiujiang area and four samples from the Nanjing area. Quartz grains of 38-63 mu m were isolated and the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol was employed for De determination. For all samples from the Nanjing area, during the SAR measurement cycles the test-dose sensitivity was dose dependent and dropped significantly when the regeneration dose reached >300 Gy, while it increased linearly when the regeneration dose value ranged from 25 to 300 Gy. The reason for this is not yet known. The OSL chronology and its implications for paleoenvironmental change are discussed. It is concluded that: (1) loess deposition in the Jiujiang area started in the early Last Glaciation; and (2) the first loess layer in the Nanjing area was deposited during the last Glaciation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Controversy exists regarding the chronology of loess in the Nanjing area in Jiangsu Province and the Jiujiang area in Jiangxi Province, East China. The chronology is of special interest, because the age of the initial accumulation for loess in these areas indicates that dust accumulation has been extended from the Loess Plateau in North China to East China at that time. This implies a threshold in the evolution of the East Asian monsoon, with the strengthened winter monsoon transporting aeolian dust further to the south. In this study nine luminescence samples were collected from the Jiujiang area and four samples from the Nanjing area. Quartz grains of 38-63 mu m were isolated and the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol was employed for De determination. For all samples from the Nanjing area, during the SAR measurement cycles the test-dose sensitivity was dose dependent and dropped significantly when the regeneration dose reached >300 Gy, while it increased linearly when the regeneration dose value ranged from 25 to 300 Gy. The reason for this is not yet known. The OSL chronology and its implications for paleoenvironmental change are discussed. It is concluded that: (1) loess deposition in the Jiujiang area started in the early Last Glaciation; and (2) the first loess layer in the Nanjing area was deposited during the last Glaciation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.isl.ac.cn/handle/363002/1922
专题	青海盐湖研究所知识仓储
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lai, ZhongPing,Zhang, WeiGuo,Chen, Xi,et al. OSL chronology of loess deposits in East China and its implications forEast Asian monsoon history[J]. QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY,2010,5(2 -3):154-158.
APA	Lai, ZhongPing.,Zhang, WeiGuo.,Chen, Xi.,Jia, YuLian.,Liu, XiangJun.,...&Long, Hao.(2010).OSL chronology of loess deposits in East China and its implications forEast Asian monsoon history.QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY,5(2 -3),154-158.
MLA	Lai, ZhongPing,et al."OSL chronology of loess deposits in East China and its implications forEast Asian monsoon history".QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY 5.2 -3(2010):154-158.