Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China

LU Yingxia; LI Baosheng; WEN Xiaohao; QIU Shifan; WANG Fengnian; NIU Dongfeng; LI Zhiwen

doi:10.1007/s11769-010-0243-5

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LU Yingxia, LI Baosheng, WEN Xiaohao, QIU Shifan, WANG Fengnian, NIU Dongfeng, LI Zhiwen. Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2010, 20(3): 243-251. doi: 10.1007/s11769-010-0243-5

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LU Yingxia, LI Baosheng, WEN Xiaohao, QIU Shifan, WANG Fengnian, NIU Dongfeng, LI Zhiwen. Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2010, 20(3): 243-251. doi: 10.1007/s11769-010-0243-5

Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-010-0243-5

1.
Geography Department, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2.
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China;
3.
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

Funds: Under the auspices of National Basic Research Program of China (No.2010CB833405);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40772118, 49971009)

Received Date: 2009-09-09
Rev Recd Date: 2010-01-25
Publish Date: 2010-04-01

Abstract

The upmost segment (Holocene series) of the Milanggouwan stratigraphic section (MGS1) in the Salawusu River valley shows 11 sedimentary cycles of dune sands and fluvio-lacustrine facies, or dune sands and paleosols. The analysis of the magnetic susceptibility of this segment suggests that there are 11 magnetic susceptibility cycles with the value alternating from low to high, in which the layers of the dune sands correspond to the lower value of the magnetic susceptibility and the layers of fluvio-lacustrine facies and paleosols correspond to the higher peaks. The study reveals that the low and high magnetic susceptibility values indicate the climate dominated by cold-arid winter monsoon and warm-humid summer monsoon of East Asia, respectively, and the study area has experienced at least 22 times of millennial-centennial scales climate alternation from the cold-arid to the warm-humid during the Holocene. In terms of the time and the climate nature, the variations basically correspond to those of the North Atlantic and some records of cold-warm changes in China as well. They might be caused by the alternation of winter and summer monsoons in the Mu Us Desert induced by global climate fluctuations in the Holocene.
- MGS1 segment,
- magnetic susceptibility,
- millennial-centennial scales climate changes,
- Holocene,
- Salawusu River valley

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[24]	Ouyang Chuntao,Li Baosheng,Ou Xianjiao et al.,2007.Chemical weathering of the Milanggouwan paleosols in the Salawusu River Valley and their paleoclimatic implication during the Last Interglacial Period.Acta Geographica Sinica,62(5):518-528.(in Chinese)
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[27]	Su Zhizhu,Dong Guangrong,1994.Recent progress on Quaternary research of Salawusu River area in Inner Mongolia.Arid Land Geography,17(4):1-8.(in Chinese)
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Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China

1. Geography Department, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;

2. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China;

3. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

Funds: Under the auspices of National Basic Research Program of China (No.2010CB833405);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40772118, 49971009)

Received Date: 2009-09-09

Rev Recd Date: 2010-01-25

Publish Date: 2010-04-01

Key words:

MGS1 segment /
magnetic susceptibility /
millennial-centennial scales climate changes /
Holocene /
Salawusu River valley

Abstract: The upmost segment (Holocene series) of the Milanggouwan stratigraphic section (MGS1) in the Salawusu River valley shows 11 sedimentary cycles of dune sands and fluvio-lacustrine facies, or dune sands and paleosols. The analysis of the magnetic susceptibility of this segment suggests that there are 11 magnetic susceptibility cycles with the value alternating from low to high, in which the layers of the dune sands correspond to the lower value of the magnetic susceptibility and the layers of fluvio-lacustrine facies and paleosols correspond to the higher peaks. The study reveals that the low and high magnetic susceptibility values indicate the climate dominated by cold-arid winter monsoon and warm-humid summer monsoon of East Asia, respectively, and the study area has experienced at least 22 times of millennial-centennial scales climate alternation from the cold-arid to the warm-humid during the Holocene. In terms of the time and the climate nature, the variations basically correspond to those of the North Atlantic and some records of cold-warm changes in China as well. They might be caused by the alternation of winter and summer monsoons in the Mu Us Desert induced by global climate fluctuations in the Holocene.

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[1]	Bond G,Showers W,Cheseby M et al.,1997.A pervasive millen-nial-scale cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and glacial climates.Science,278(534):1257-1266.DOI:10.1126/science.278.534-0.1257
[2]	Chen Fahu,Zhu Yan,Li Jijun et al.,2001.Abrupt Holocene changes of the Asian monsoon at millennial-and centennial-scales:Evidence from lake sediment document in Minqin Basin,NW China.Chinese Science Bulletin,46(17):1414-1419.(in Chinese)
[3]	Dong Guangrong,Gao Shangyu,Li Baosheng,1982.New discovery of the Fossil Ordos Man.Chinese Science Bulletin,26(19):1192-1194.(in Chinese)
[4]	Dong Guangrong,Li Baosheng,Gao Shangyu,1983.The case study of the vicissitude of Mu Us Sandy Land since the Late Pleistocene according to the Salawusu River strata.Journal of Desert Research,3(2):9-14.(in Chinese)
[5]	Editorial Board of National Atlas of China,1965.The National Physical Atlas of China.Beijing:China Cartographic Publishing House,8-9.(in Chinese)
[6]	Guo Zhengtang,Petit N,Liu Dongsheng,1999.Holocene abrupt environmental changes in the arid regions in Africa and Asia.Journal of Paleogeography,1(1):68-74.(in Chinese)
[7]	Jia Lanpo,1950.The Ordos Fossil Man.Shanghai:Longmen United Publishing House,1-89.(in Chinese)
[8]	Jian Zhimin,Meng Yi,2002.Holocene paleoenvironmental changes in the Yangtze River mouth and their responses to the variations in the Kuroshio Current.Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology,22(3):77-82.(in Chinese)
[9]	Jin Heling,Li Mingqi,Su Zhizhu et al.,2007.Sedimentary age of strata in the Salawusu River Basin and climatic changing.Acta Geologica Sinica,81(3):307-315.(in Chinese)
[10]	Jin Heling,Su Zhizhu,Sun Liangying et al.,2004.Climate change of Holocene in Hunshandake desert.Chinese Science Bulletin,49(15):1532-1536.(in Chinese)
[11]	Jin Zhangdong,Shen Ji,Wang Sumin et al.,2002.The medieval warm period in the Daihai area.Journal of Lake Sciences,14(3):209-216.(in Chinese)
[12]	Kukla G,1987.Loess stratigraphy in Central China.Quaternary Science Reviews,6(3-4):191-207,209-219.DOI:10.1016/02-77-3791(87)90004-7
[13]	Li Baosheng,Zhang David Dian,Jin Heling et al.,2000.Paleo-monsoon activities of Mu Us Desert,China since 150 ka B.P.-A study of the stratigraphic sequences of the Milanggouwan Section,Salawusu River area.Palaeogeography,Palaeoclimatology,Palaeoecology,162:1-16.DOI:10.1016/S0-031-0182(00)00101-2
[14]	Li Baosheng,Dong Guangrong,Gao Shangyu et al.,1987.Relationship between the Malan Loess and the Salawusu Formation in the Salawusu River area,Ordos and their geological ages.Acta Geologica Sinica,(3):218-230.(in Chinese)
[15]	Li Baosheng,Dong Guangrong,Wu Zheng et al.,1993.The establishment of the Upper Pleistocene Chengchuan Formation in northern China.Geological Review,39(2):91-100.(in Chi-nese)
[16]	Li Baosheng,Jin Heling,Lu Haiyan et al.,1998.Processes of the deposition and vicissitude of Mu Us Desert,China since 150,000 a B.P.Science in China(Series D),28(1):85-90.(in Chinese)
[17]	Li Baosheng,Jin Heling,Zhu Yizhi et al.,2004.The Quaternary lithostrata in Salawusu River Valley and their geochronlolgy.Acta Sedimentologica Sinica,22(4):676-682.(in Chinese)
[18]	Li Baosheng,Wu Zheng,David Dian Zhang et al.,2001.Environment and its changes in the monsoon sandy region of China during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.Acta Geologica Sinica,75(1):127-137.(in Chinese)
[19]	Liu Jiaqi,Lu Houyuan,Negendank J et al.,2000.Periodicity of Holocene climatic variations in the Huguangyan Maer Lake.Chinese Science Bulletin,45(11):1190-1195.(in Chinese)
[20]	Liu Xiuming,Liu Tungsheng,Heller F et al.,1990.Frequency-dependent susceptibility of loess and quaternary paleoclimate.Quaternary Sciences,(1):42-50.(in Chinese)
[21]	Liu Yufei,Li Baosheng,Yang Yi et al.,2006.Moving and accumulating law of Rb,Sr with environment evolving in semiarid basin of China during the last interglacial-Reflected by study result on Milanggouwan stratigraphic section in the Salawusu River valley.Journal of Desert Research,26(3):341-344.(in Chinese)
[22]	Niu Dongfeng,Li Baosheng,Du Shuhuan et al.,2008.Cold events of Holocene indicated by primary elements distribution of the high-resolution sand dunes in the Salawusu River Valley.Journal of Geographical Sciences,18:26-36.DOI:10.1007/s11442-008-0026-4.
[23]	O'Brien S R,Mayewski P A,Meeker L D et al.,1995.Complexity of Holocene climate as reconstructed from a Greenland ice core.Science,270(5244):1962-1964.DOI:10.1126/science.270.52.44.1962
[24]	Ouyang Chuntao,Li Baosheng,Ou Xianjiao et al.,2007.Chemical weathering of the Milanggouwan paleosols in the Salawusu River Valley and their paleoclimatic implication during the Last Interglacial Period.Acta Geographica Sinica,62(5):518-528.(in Chinese)
[25]	Pei Wenzhong,Li Youheng,1964.Some tentative opinions on the problem of"Sjara-Osso-Gol Series".Vertebrata Palasiatica,8(2):99-118.(in Chinese)
[26]	Qi Guoqin,1975.Quaternary mammalian fossils from Salawusu River District,Nei Mongol.Vertebrata Palasiatica,13(4):239-249.(in Chinese)
[27]	Su Zhizhu,Dong Guangrong,1994.Recent progress on Quaternary research of Salawusu River area in Inner Mongolia.Arid Land Geography,17(4):1-8.(in Chinese)
[28]	Stuiver M,Reimer P J,Bard E et al.,1998.INTCAL98 Radiocarbon age calibration 24,000-0 cal BP.Radiocarbon,40:1041-1083.
[29]	Su Zhizhu,Dong Guangrong,Li Xiaoqiang et al.,1999.The lake-swamp sediment records on the environmental characteristics of Mu Us Desert since the Late Glacial Epoch.Journal of Desert Research,19(2):104-109.(in Chinese)
[30]	Taylor K C,Lamorey G A,Doyle R B et al.,1993.The 'flickering switch' of Late Pleistocene climate change.Nature,361:432-436.
[31]	Teilhard de Chardin P,Licent E,1924.On the discovery of a Paleolithic industry in Northern China.Bulletin of the Geological Society of China,3(1):45-50.
[32]	Wang L,Sarnthein M,Erlenkeuser H et al.,1999.East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene:High-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea.Marine Geology,156:245-284.DOI:10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00182-0
[33]	Woo Jukang,1958.Fossil human parietal bone and femur from Ordos.Vertebrata Palasiatica,2(1):208-210.(in Chinese)
[34]	Xian Feng,Zhou Weijian,Yu Xuefeng et al.,2006.Evidence for abrupt changes of the Asian monsoon during the Holocene:From the peat records of Tibetan Plateau.Marine Geology Quaternary Geology,26(1):41-45.(in Chinese)
[35]	Yao Tandong,Shi Yafeng,1992.Climatic changes of Holocene reflected in the ice core from Dunde,Qilian Mountains.In:Shi Yafeng et al.(eds.).The Climates and Environments of Holo-cene Megathermal in China.Beijing:China Ocean Press,206-211.(in Chinese)
[36]	Yuan Baoyin,1978.Sedimentary environment and stratigraphical subdivision of Sjara Osso-Gol formation.Scientia Geologica Sinica,(3):220-234.(in Chinese)
[37]	Yuan Sixun,Chen Tiemei,Gao Shijun,1983.Uranium series dating of"Ordos Man"and"Sjara-Osso-Gol"culture.Acta Anthropologica Sinica,2(1):90-94.(in Chinese)
[38]	Zhou Kunshu,Li Xingguo,Shao Yajun,1982.The permafrost period subdivision in the Salawusu River reaches,Inner Mon-golia,and its significance.In:Contribution to the Academic Symposium on the Pre-Historic Earthquake and Geology of China.Xi'an:Shaanxi Science and Technology Press,149-153.(in Chinese)
[39]	Zhou Weijian,Lu Xuefeng,Wu Zhengkun et al.,2001.Peat record reflecting Holocene climatic change in the Zoig(e)Plateau and AMS radiocarbon dating.Chinese Science Bulletin,46(12):1040-1044.(in Chinese)

Millennial-centennial Scales Climate Changes of Holocene Indicated by Magnetic Susceptibility of High-resolution Section in Salawusu River Valley, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-010-0243-5

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