Environmental changes in the Ulan Buh Desert, southern Inner Mongolia, China since the middle Pleistocene based on sedimentology, chronology and proxy indexes
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| 作者 | Li, Guoqiang1; Jin, Ming1; Chen, Xuemei1; Wen, Lijuan1; Zhang, Jiawu1; Madsen, David1; Zhao, Hui2; Wang, Xin1; Fan, Tianlai1; Duan, Yanwu1 |
| 刊名 | QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
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| 出版日期 | 2015-11-15 |
| 卷号 | 128页码:69-80 |
| 关键词 | Ulan Buh Desert China Environment change Pleistocene Drill cores |
| ISSN号 | 0277-3791 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.010 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Guoqiang(gqli@lzu.edu.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | The Ulan Buh Desert (UBD), in southwestern Inner Mongolia, is one of the main dune fields and dust source areas in northern China. The formation of the desert and associated environmental changes since the middle Pleistocene are still unclear due to a lack of depositional records and environmental proxy index analyses. In this study, quartz and K-feldspar optical dating, environmental proxy indexes of grain size, loss on ignition, pollen, and ostracod analysis were employed to supplement the sediment record of a 120.5 m drill core, WL12ZK-1, from the southern UBD. In combination with previous stratigraphic records obtained from drill cores WL10ZK-1 (35 m deep) and WL10ZK-2 (32 m deep) from the northern UBD, and drill core WL12ZK-2 (80 m deep) from the northeastern UBD, these proxies indicate there has been essentially an arid environment in the UBD, with desert or steppe vegetation, since the middle Pleistocene, and that sand dunes were widely distributed in the UBD beginning at least similar to 230 ka ago. The Yellow River filled a freshwater paleolake beginning similar to 15 ka ago that covered both the UBD and the adjacent Hetao Plain. The paleolake lasted until similar to 87 ka, and was associated with wetlands along its margins. Steppe vegetation was present in the surrounding region. An arid environment appeared again after 87 ka, and there is no evidence of a large stable lake in the UBD at any time thereafter. Sand dune deposition and a very arid desert environment were present throughout the last glacial period and lasted into the early Holocene. During the Holocene these arid conditions were interrupted by minor wetland intervals. Deserts in southern Inner Mongolia formed at least since the middle Pleistocene, expanded during the last glaciation and into the early Holocene and again after similar to 2 ka. We suggest that a combination of tectonic activity and climate change may be responsible for desert formation and environmental changes in southern Inner Mongolia since the middle Pleistocene, with additional human influence exacerbating these conditions in the late Holocene. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| WOS关键词 | BADAIN JARAN DESERT ; LATE QUATERNARY EVOLUTION ; NORTHERN TIBETAN PLATEAU ; EAST-ASIAN MONSOON ; TENGGER DESERT ; K-FELDSPAR ; NW CHINA ; QILIAN MOUNTAINS ; DAIHAI LAKE ; DRILL CORE |
| WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
| WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000364884400005 |
| 出版者 | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
| URI标识 | http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2557180 |
| 专题 | 寒区旱区环境与工程研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Guoqiang |
| 作者单位 | 1.Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Res Inst, Key Lab Desert & Desertificat, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Guoqiang,Jin, Ming,Chen, Xuemei,et al. Environmental changes in the Ulan Buh Desert, southern Inner Mongolia, China since the middle Pleistocene based on sedimentology, chronology and proxy indexes[J]. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,2015,128:69-80. |
| APA | Li, Guoqiang.,Jin, Ming.,Chen, Xuemei.,Wen, Lijuan.,Zhang, Jiawu.,...&Chen, Fahu.(2015).Environmental changes in the Ulan Buh Desert, southern Inner Mongolia, China since the middle Pleistocene based on sedimentology, chronology and proxy indexes.QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,128,69-80. |
| MLA | Li, Guoqiang,et al."Environmental changes in the Ulan Buh Desert, southern Inner Mongolia, China since the middle Pleistocene based on sedimentology, chronology and proxy indexes".QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 128(2015):69-80. |
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