Beach ridges of Dali Lake in Inner Mongolia reveal precipitation variation during the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 716-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengyao Jiang ◽  
Zhiyong Han ◽  
Xusheng Li ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Thomas Stevens ◽  
...  
The Holocene ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1461-1471 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Giraudi

The stratigraphic study of the Stagno di Maccarese, carried out on the sediments exposed in about 7 km of trenches excavated in an area of approximately 1.5 km2, has shown that in the course of the Holocene many environmental variations have taken place. The complex evolution of the marsh is demonstrated by the variations in water salinity and the presence of erosion surfaces and soils between the sediments. In the early Holocene, the area studied was an isolated marsh with water having variable salinity, and it was only about 6000 cal. yr BP that it was encompassed in the system of inner delta marshes. In the delta environment, the water of the marsh was oligohaline until about 9th–8th centuries bc, brackish from 9th–8th centuries bc to about 600 yr BP, and later oligohaline until the 19th century drainage. A number of environmental variations are connected with local phenomena, such as erosion of the beach ridges and Tiber floods, but the others can be correlated chronologically with climatic events recorded at regional and global scale. The millennial variations seem to be connected with changes in insolation, while abrupt variations can be correlated chronologically with the IRD events dated at 8200, 5900, 4200, 2800, 1400 and 500 cal. yr BP.


2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenying Jiang ◽  
Zhengtang Guo ◽  
Xiangjun Sun ◽  
Haibin Wu ◽  
Guoqiang Chu ◽  
...  

AbstractA high-resolution pollen and Pediastrum record, spanning 12,500 yr, is presented for Lake Bayanchagan , southern Inner Mongolia. Individual pollen taxa (PT-MAT) and the PFT affinity scores (PFT-MAT) were used for quantitative climatic reconstruction from pollen and algal data. Both techniques indicate that a cold and dry climate, similar to that of today, prevailed before 10,500 cal yr B.P. The wettest climate occurred between ∼10,500 and 6500 cal yr B.P., at which time annual precipitation was up to 30–60% higher than today. The early Holocene increases in temperature and precipitation occurred simultaneously, but mid-Holocene cooling started at approximately 8000 cal yr B.P., 1500 yr earlier than the drying. Vegetation reconstruction was based on the objective assignment of pollen taxa to the plant functional type. The results suggest that this region was dominated by steppe vegetation throughout the Holocene, except for the period ∼9200 to ∼6700 cal yr B.P., when forest patches were relatively common. Inner Mongolia is situated at the limit of the present East Asian monsoon and patterns of vegetation and climate changes in that region during the Holocene probably reflect fluctuations in the monsoon's response to solar insolation variations. The early to middle Holocene monsoon undoubtedly extended to more northern latitudes than at present.


2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 519-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jule Xiao ◽  
Bin Si ◽  
Dayou Zhai ◽  
Shigeru Itoh ◽  
Zaur Lomtatidze

2018 ◽  
Vol 479 ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Liu ◽  
Yang Wang ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Youyi Guan ◽  
Jin Dong ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jule Xiao ◽  
Zhigang Chang ◽  
Bin Si ◽  
Xiaoguang Qin ◽  
Shigeru Itoh ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 454 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzhen Liu ◽  
Chenglong Deng ◽  
Jule Xiao ◽  
Jinhua Li ◽  
Greig A. Paterson ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Zhilei Zhen ◽  
Wenbao Li ◽  
Lishuai Xu ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Jun Zhang

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