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DOI10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.006
Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China - with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia
Yang, Xiaoping1; Wang, Xulong2; Liu, Ziting1; Li, Hongwei1; Ren, Xiaozun1; Zhang, Deguo1; Ma, Zhibang1; Rioual, Patrick1; Jin, Xindi1; Scuderi, Louis3
通讯作者Yang, Xiaoping
来源期刊QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN0277-3791
出版年2013
卷号78页码:369-380
英文摘要

Sedimentary sequences occurring in desert dunes reflect changes in desert systems, and as such may contain signals useful for recognizing spatial and temporal changes of deserts and their response to regional or even global climate fluctuations. Geomorphological and palaeoenvironmental studies within the dune fields of the Asian middle-latitudes have provided some solid evidence for interpreting the history of these sand seas. Using the Hunshandake (Otindag) Sandy Land, a sandy area covered primarily by stabilized dunes and located in the semi-arid zone of eastern Inner Mongolia, China (Fig. 1), as an example, we studied the initiation and variation in the dune landscape in the eastern portion of the desert belt in northern China. On the basis of physical and biochemical indicators in the sediments and OSL chronology, we herein argue that this dune system in the middle latitudes of eastern Asia is much younger than previously assumed and that it has responded sensitively to climate change during the late Quaternary. Geological evidence from the Sandy Land suggests that most of the current dunes are of late Pleistocene or even Holocene age. Palaeosols intercalated in the aeolian sequences and their OSL chronology show that the climate of the Hunshandake was much wetter than today between 9.6 ka and 3 ka. This resulted in stabilization of the dunes in the eastern and central portions of the Sandy Land. Epochs of reworking or stabilization of the dunes are broadly consistent with the fluctuations in northern hemisphere solar radiation although with an obvious time lag. Because the increase rate of annual precipitation was not sufficient to fully stabilize the dunes in more arid part of the region, some active dunes persisted even during this long-lasting wetter epoch. We conclude that periods of Holocene dune stabilization due to palaeosol formation varied along the climate gradients across the various sandy lands of northern China, and in general it began earlier and lasted longer in the east than in the west. The general nature of the sandy lands and their counterparts in the western portion of the desert belt during the LGM and mid-Holocene climate optimum is discussed in comparison with their current states. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


英文关键词Desert Palaeosol Aeolian system Sand dune Climate change Holocene Pleistocene Middle latitude Hunshandake China
类型Article
语种英语
国家Peoples R China ; USA
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000327908900024
WOS关键词QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; HOLOCENE CLIMATE-CHANGE ; BADAIN JARAN DESERT ; MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY ; NORTHERN CHINA ; LOESS DEPOSITS ; LUMINESCENCE ; MONSOON ; PALEOSOLS ; MOBILITY
WOS类目Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Physical Geography ; Geology
来源机构中国科学院地球环境研究所 ; 中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/179646
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China;
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, Xian 710075, Peoples R China;
3.Univ New Mexico, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
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Yang, Xiaoping,Wang, Xulong,Liu, Ziting,et al. Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China - with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia[J]. 中国科学院地球环境研究所, 中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所,2013,78:369-380.
APA Yang, Xiaoping.,Wang, Xulong.,Liu, Ziting.,Li, Hongwei.,Ren, Xiaozun.,...&Scuderi, Louis.(2013).Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China - with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia.QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,78,369-380.
MLA Yang, Xiaoping,et al."Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China - with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia".QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 78(2013):369-380.
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