Changes in the sources, properties and fluxes of mineral aerosol ('dust') have significance
as both indicators and agents of climate change, through radiative, cloud condensation and …

Abstract The North China and the neighbouring Mongolia in Asian Interior is characterized
by extremely dry climate, resulted in one of the world's major dust emission centres …

Silicate Nd–Sr isotopes of the fine-grained fractions of the 10 major deserts and sandy lands
in North China and the loess in Chinese Loess Plateau were systematically investigated …

In lake sediment investigations of heavy metal pollution history, it has become a common
approach to calculate enrichment factors (EFs) by normalizing elemental distributions to a …

The Asian Monsoon forms an important part of the earth's climate system, yet our
understanding of the past interactions between its different sub-systems, the East Asian and …

The Drake Passage (DP) is the major geographic constriction for the Antarctic Circumpolar
Current (ACC) and exerts a strong control on the exchange of physical, chemical, and …

Abstract The ln (Zr/Rb) count ratio derived from X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanning
holds potential as a high‐resolution tracer for grain‐size variations of glaciomarine …

A 180‐m‐thick loess‐paleosol sequence from the northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau was
investigated to construct a high‐resolution record of the East Asian monsoon variability over …

This study illustrates the textural, mineralogical and geochemical signatures of sediments
from the upper Yellow River. Sediments of major tributaries have also been examined to …

Abstract The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE,∼ 183 Ma) was characterized by
enhanced carbon burial, a prominent negative carbon-isotope excursion (CIE) in marine …