Pleistocene dynamics of dust accumulation and soil formation in the southern Caspian Lowlands-New insights from the loess-paleosol sequence at Neka-Abelou …

M Kehl, S Vlaminck, T Köhler, C Laag, C Rolf… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The southern Caspian Lowland sensitively reacted to Pleistocene climate change
and is a key area for reconstructing climate dynamics and landscape evolution in Southern …

General Holocene warming trend in arid Central Asia indicated by soil isoprenoid tetraethers

Y Duan, Q Sun, JP Werne, J Hou, H Yang… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
A progressive warming or a long-term cooling trend during the Holocene remain
controversial both at a regional and global scale. One possible reason for this discrepancy …

The Agh Band loess-palaeosol sequence–A terrestrial archive for climatic shifts during the last and penultimate glacial–interglacial cycles in a semiarid region in …

T Lauer, S Vlaminck, M Frechen, C Rolf, M Kehl… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northern Iranian loess profiles host important information on Quaternary
climate and palaeoenvironmental changes in the region. They build an important link …

The impact of precipitation on the distributions of branched tetraethers in alkaline soils

Y Duan, Q Sun, JP Werne, J Hou, H Yang, Q Wang… - Organic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) have shown promise for
quantitative reconstructions of temperature and soil pH. However, several confounding …

Climatic significance of the stable carbon isotopic composition of surface soils in northern Iran and its application to an Early Pleistocene loess section

Q Wang, X Wang, H Wei, F Khormali, H **e… - Organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
The stable carbon isotopic composition of bulk organic matter (δ 13 C org) in paleosols has
been widely used as a proxy indicator for reconstructing past vegetation and climate …

Pedogenic carbonates archive modern and past precipitation change–A transect study from soils and loess-paleosol sequences from northern Iran

F Khormali, A Shahriari, A Ghafarpour, M Kehl… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope compositions in soil carbonates and in soil organic matter
provide insights into (paleo) climatic conditions, especially in arid and semiarid regions …

Paleoclimatic significance of the organic carbon isotopes of the Tajikistan loess in arid Central Asia, on orbital timescales since the last interglacial

Q Wang, X Tang, J Lei, J Jia, D Murodov… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
During the past few decades, the stable carbon isotope composition of bulk organic matter
(δ 13 C org) in loess sediments has been increasingly used for reconstructing changes in …

Late Pleistocene climate and dust source from the Mobarakabad loess–paleosol sequence, northern foothills of the Alborz mountains, northern Iran

A Ghafarpour, F Khormali, X Meng, H Tazikeh… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Paleoclimatic investigation of loess-paleosol sequences from northern Iran is important for
understanding past changes in a region highly sensitive to shifts in precipitation, and along …

Evidence for signatures of ancient microbial life in paleosols

K Frindte, E Lehndorff, S Vlaminck, K Werner, M Kehl… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Loess-paleosol sequences are terrestrial archives of past climate change. They may host
traces of ancient microbial life, but little information is available on the recovery of microbial …

Investigating soil magnetic properties with pedogenic variation along a precipitation gradient in loess-derived soils of the Golestan province, northern Iran

J Sharifigarmdareh, F Khormali, S Scheidt, C Rolf… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the Golestan province in northern Iran extensive loess deposits, and widespread loess-
derived soils crop out. While a strong precipitation gradient (200–700 mm per year) from …