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DOI | 10.1111/1755-6724.14539 |
Late Holocene Moisture Changes in the Core Area of Arid Central Asia Reflected by Rock Magnetic Records of Glacier Lake Kalakuli Sediments in the Westernmost Tibetan Plateau and their Influences on the Evolution of Ancient Silk Road | |
Wu Xudong; Liu Xingqi; Appel, Erwin | |
通讯作者 | Liu, XQ |
来源期刊 | ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION
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ISSN | 1000-9515 |
EISSN | 1755-6724 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 94期号:3页码:658-667 |
英文摘要 | The evolution of Ancient Silk Road (ASR) was deeply influenced by late Holocene moisture changes in Arid Central Asia (ACA). Nevertheless, controversies in Holocene moisture change pattern of ACA and poorly-constrained age models of related studies have made the discussion about late Holocene moisture changes in ACA and their influences on the evolution of ASR difficult. Recently, a high-resolution age model during the late Holocene was established for Kalakuli Lake, a small glacier lake located in the core area of ACA. A thorough rock magnetic investigation was carried out on Kalakuli Lake sediments based on this age model. The magnetic mineral assemblage of Kalakuli Lake sediments is still dominated by primary magnetite despite minor diagenetic effects. Comparisons of rock magnetic records to parameters previously used as indicator of glacier fluctuations suggest that clastic input to Kalakuli Lake was high (low) and magnetic grain size is relatively larger (smaller), when glaciers on Muztagh Ata advanced (retreated). The ARM/SIRM ratio, a magnetic grain size proxy, is directly related to lake hydrodynamics, which are ultimately controlled by glacier fluctuations on Muztagh Ata as the result of regional moisture changes. Late Holocene moisture changes indicated by the ARM/SIRM ratio are consistent with cool/wet and warm/dry oscillations indicated by the unweighted average of biomarker hydrogen isotopic data of the C-26 and C-28 n-alkanoic acids in a previous study about Kalakuli Lake, most moisture change records of the core area of ACA and winter insolation of the Northern Hemisphere, but opposite to Asian monsoon evolution. Given Asian monsoon and the westerlies are mutually inhibited, we propose that late Holocene moisture changes in the core area of ACA were controlled by the intensity of Asian monsoon versus the westerlies under the governance of solar insolation. Generally increased moisture since the late Holocene indicated by the ARM/SIRM ratio favored cultural exchange and integration between the western and the eastern Eurasia, which paved the way for the formation of ASR. Coincidence between significant increase in moisture at similar to 200 BC suggested by the ARM/SIRM ratio and the formation of ASR indicates moisture as an important factor that facilitated the formation of ASR. The onsets of three prosperity periods of ASR in the history generally correspond to periods when moisture was relatively high, nevertheless, stagnant periods of ASR do not coincide with periods when moisture was relatively low in the core area of ACA. Disorganized correlations between stagnant periods of ASR and moisture changes in the core area of ACA suggest that moisture is not the decisive factor influencing the evolution of ASR. |
英文关键词 | moisture changes rock magnetic records Kalakuli Lake Arid Central Asia Ancient Silk Road |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000544351300009 |
WOS关键词 | HUGUANGYAN MAAR LAKE ; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENCE ; NORTHERN XINJIANG ; CLIMATIC CHANGES ; PARTICLE-SIZE ; VEGETATION ; POLLEN ; LOESS ; CHINA ; BASIN |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/324876 |
作者单位 | [Wu Xudong; Liu Xingqi] Capital Normal Univ, Coll Environm Resources & Tourism, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China; [Wu Xudong] Hebei Geo Univ, Sch Land Resources & Urban & Rural Planning, Shijiazhuang 050031, Hebei, Peoples R China; [Appel, Erwin] Univ Tubingen, Dept Geosci, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu Xudong,Liu Xingqi,Appel, Erwin. Late Holocene Moisture Changes in the Core Area of Arid Central Asia Reflected by Rock Magnetic Records of Glacier Lake Kalakuli Sediments in the Westernmost Tibetan Plateau and their Influences on the Evolution of Ancient Silk Road[J],2020,94(3):658-667. |
APA | Wu Xudong,Liu Xingqi,&Appel, Erwin.(2020).Late Holocene Moisture Changes in the Core Area of Arid Central Asia Reflected by Rock Magnetic Records of Glacier Lake Kalakuli Sediments in the Westernmost Tibetan Plateau and their Influences on the Evolution of Ancient Silk Road.ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION,94(3),658-667. |
MLA | Wu Xudong,et al."Late Holocene Moisture Changes in the Core Area of Arid Central Asia Reflected by Rock Magnetic Records of Glacier Lake Kalakuli Sediments in the Westernmost Tibetan Plateau and their Influences on the Evolution of Ancient Silk Road".ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION 94.3(2020):658-667. |
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