Intensified Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Facilitates Continuous Accumulation of Late Pliocene Loess on the Western Margin of the Pamir,Geophysical Research Letters

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Intensified Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Facilitates Continuous Accumulation of Late Pliocene Loess on the Western Margin of the Pamir
Geophysical Research Letters ( IF 5.2 ) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 , DOI: 10.1029/2022gl099629
Jinbo Zan _{1,

2} , Wenxiao Ning _{1,

2} , Friedrich Heller ₃ , Xiaomin Fang _{1,

2} , Weilin Zhang _{1,

2} , Jian Kang _{1,

2}

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Thick eolian loess sequences in arid Central Asia (CA) contain a wealth of information on the intensity variations of midlatitude westerlies and the aridification history of the nearby deserts. In this study, detailed lithologic and magnetostratigraphic investigations suggest that loess deposits on the western margin of the Pamir Plateau began to accumulate at around 2.7 Ma, representing the most complete and oldest loess-paleosol sequence in western CA. The widely distributed continuous loess deposition in the region suggests a rapid desiccation of CA during the late Pliocene. A synthesis of the initial timing and spatial distribution of late Cenozoic eolian deposits on the Eurasian continent further demonstrates that the dramatic increase in global ice volume exerted a dominant role in the expansion of eolian loess deposits in CA, China, and Europe, and middle Pleistocene expansion is a crucial precondition for the establishment of modern distribution patterns of the Eurasian loess belt.

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