Journal
AEOLIAN RESEARCH
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages 105-108Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.04.003
Keywords
Dust transportation; Grain size; Wind speed; Loess; Qaidam Basin; Chinese Loess Plateau
Categories
Funding
- NSFC projects [41290252, 11274002]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS [XDA05120501]
- KLSLRC [KLSLRC-KF-13-DX-3]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In studies of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment based on loess-palaeosol deposits, the rigorous relations between climate elements and the properties of loessic sediment are scarce because the dynamic processes controlled by the related physical laws are often ignored or arbitrarily simplified. In the current study, the horizontal distance of a suspended dust particle is re-estimated using classical mechanics and the relation between wind speed and the grain size of primary loess is then established. The actual application of this new theoretical relation is given by an example of Duowa profile, western Chinese Loess Plateau. The numerical results imply that the Qaidam Basin could be a likely dust source of the Chinese Loess Plateau. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available