Journal
HOLOCENE
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 893-899Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hol980rr
Keywords
Chinese loess; Pleistocene/Holocene boundary; sedimentation rate; luminescence chronology; quartz OSL; optically stimulated luminescence; magnetic susceptibility
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A detailed chronology has been obtained for a loess section at Yuanbao, situated at the northwestern edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau. The ages were obtained by the measurement of the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) from coarse-silt-sized quartz grains. These ages showed that deposition at this site was continuous from 17 ka to the present, but that there was a decrease in the sedimentation rate from 0.60 to 0.10 m/ka at 13.481 +/- 1.15 ka, and this is proposed as the location of the Pleistocene/Holocene (P/H) boundary. A change in OSL sensitivity occurs at this depth. The depth and sharpness of this boundary is compared with the change obtained in low-field magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements on 65 samples from the section. The MS changes gradually over 1.9 m and thus does not provide an easily discernible boundary. The new OSL-based sedimentation rates are used to calculate the mass accumulation rates for the Holocene and the end of the Pleistocene.
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