Terrestrial mollusk evidence for the origin and sedimentary environment of the Late Tertiary Red Clay Formation in the Loess Plateau, China

Abrupt shifts in the late Cenozoic envir

Abrupt shifts in the late Cenozoic environment of north-western China recorded in loess–palaeosol–red clay sequences

✍ Shangfa Xiong; Zhongli Ding; Shiling Yang 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 722 KB

Aeolian deposits can provide a sensitive record of climatic change. Two abrupt changes in grain size and accumulation rate have been identified at __c__. 2.4–2.6 Ma and 1.1–1.2 Ma in the loess–palaeosol–red clay sequences from the Loess Plateau of China. These changes are apparent in two major stepw