The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

Uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau (HTP) and its linkage with the evolution of the
Asian monsoon has been regarded as a typical example of a tectonic–climate linkage …

Marine accumulations of terrigenous sediment are widely assumed to accurately record
climatic-and tectonic-controlled mountain denudation and play an important role in …

Abstract Across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary (MPB; 5.3 million years ago, Ma), late
Miocene cooling gave way to the early-to-middle Pliocene Warm Period. This transition …

Glacial–interglacial changes in the distribution of C3/C4 vegetation on the Chinese Loess
Plateau have been related to East Asian summer monsoon intensity and position, and could …

The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) is widely recognized as a shift in paleoclimatic
periodicity from 41-to 100-kyr cycles, which largely reflects integrated changes in global ice …

Recent studies of the eolian deposits in northern China have extended the East Asian
monsoon history back to the early Miocene. However, the relative intensities of monsoonal …

The dynamics of glacial–interglacial monsoon variability can be attributed to orbitally
induced changes in summer insolation and internal boundary conditions. However, the …

The bacterial membrane lipid-based continental paleothermometer, the MBT/CBT or MBT′–
CBT proxy (methylation index of branched tetraethers/cyclization of branched tetraethers) …

The variability and dynamics of the Asian monsoon (AM, hereafter indicates both of the
summer and winter monsoons.) at orbital and millennial timescales has attracted wide …