Journal
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 443-449Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.01.007
Keywords
China; monsoon climate; eolian sediments; paleosols; North Atlantic drift ice
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Eighteen radiocarbon-dated colian and paleosol profiles within a 1500-km-long belt along the and to semi-arid transition zone of north-central China record variations in the extent and strength of the East Asian summer monsoon during the Holocene. Dated paleosols and peat layers represent intervals when the zone was dominated by a mild, moist summer monsoon climate that favored pedogenesis and peat accumulation. Brief intervals of enhanced eolian activity that resulted in the deposition of loess and eolian sand were times when strengthened winter monsoon conditions produced a colder, drier climate. The monsoon variations correlate closely with variations in North Atlantic drift-ice tracers that represent episodic advection of drift ice and cold polar surface water southward and eastward into warmer subpolar water. The correspondence of these records over the full span of Holocene time implies a close relationship between North Atlantic climate and the monsoon climate of central China. (c) 2006 University of Washington. All rights reserved.
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