Journal
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
Volume 543, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109604
Keywords
Chinese Loess Plateau; Rock magnetism; Fe-d/Fe-t; Zhuanglang; Lingtai; Monsoon evolution
Funding
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDY-SSWDQC001, QYZDY-SSW-DQC010]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41572164]
- Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province [2017ZDCXL-SF-03-01-01]
- Shaanxi Postdoctoral Science Fund [2017BSHEDZZ16]
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The most significant climatic change in East Asia involved the formation and evolution of the coupled monsoon-arid environmental system during the Cenozoic, which was dynamically linked to global cooling and the growth of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, our understanding of monsoon evolution since the Late Oligocene remains controversial due to differences in the interpretation of various environmental proxies from loess archives. In this study, the composition and relative abundance of pedogenic iron oxides of two eolian sequences from the Lingtai section and the Zhuanglang drill core were investigated using rock magnetic, optical spectroscopy, and geochemical analyses. The results indicate that while the composition of iron oxides in the Mio-Pliocene red clay and Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences is similar, the concentrations of magnetite, maghemite, hematite and goethite are quite different between loess, paleosol and red clay. The combination of magnetic proxies (magnetic susceptibility, Fe-d/Pe(t), and color a(star) values) reveals that precipitation and temperature played varying roles in driving pedogenesis and chemical weathering since the Late Oligocene. During the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, the occurrence of relatively strong pedogenesis and chemical weathering was likely the result of high temperatures rather than high precipitation. The East Asian summer monsoon intensified during the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum (16.5-14.5 Ma), in response to global climatic warming; subsequently, during the Middle to Late Miocene, the monsoon intensity gradually weakened due to global cooling. After similar to 8 Ma, the summer monsoon strengthened substantially and reached a maximum during 4.5-2.6 Ma, possibly as a result of the uplift of the northeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the Late Miocene. The monsoon intensity then commenced a decreasing trend in the Early Pleistocene, but then strengthened again after similar to 1.0 Ma.
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