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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2000, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 415-417.

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Climatic Record with High Resolution in the Holocene Loess in Qishan,Shaanxi

ZHANG Zhan-ping, PANG Jiang-li, HUANG Chun-chang, ZHAO Jing-bo   

  1. College of Tourism and Environmental Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
  • Received:1999-10-18 Revised:2000-08-13 Online:2000-12-20 Published:2000-12-20

Abstract: The field investigations,g rain-size analysis and magnetic susceptibility measurement in the Holocene loess profiles in Qishan,Shaanxi,has revealed the characteristics of the climatic change during last 11000 years.There is an arid phase existed in the middle of the Holocene Mega thermal between 6 0005 000 a B.P..It is represented by a layer of loess(Lx) in the profile.Therefore,there are two pedogenic periods in the Holocene,which is represented by palaeosol S02 and S01 in the profile.In addition,smaller-scale climatic variation was very frequent over the last 11 000 years.

Key words: Holocene, climatic change, high resolution

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