Millennial scale climate change in the Holocene revealed by trace elements of aeolian deposits in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Liu Bing1 Jin Heling1 Sun Zhong1 Su Zhizhu2 Zhang Caixia1
1 Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification， Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Lanzhou 730000，Gansu 2 College of History and Culture，Shanxi University，Taiyuan 030006，Shanxi
Abstract This paper attempts to reconstruct the millennial scale climate changes in the Holocene by the characteristics of trace elements from the typical palaeosol-aeolian sand section with OSL ages in Gonghe Basin，northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Trace elements，except for the Co，Rb，Sr and Ba，reflect the similar climatic change with their peaks(high values) in palaeosols layers while the valleys(low values)in aeolian sand layers.This phenomenon thus can be regarded as the symbol of the regional warm-wet and cold-dry changes.The regional climate was dominated by the cold and dry in 11.8-10.0 ka while warm and wet from 10.0～9.2 ka .In 9.2～4.6 ka，the climate was relatively cold-dry and relatively warm-wet between 4.6 ka and 0.7 ka .Thereafter，it gradually tended to be cold and dry again.8 cold events were recorded in Gonghe Basin during the Holocene，which are very well corresponding to the cold phases in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Northern Atlantic Ocean，marking the higher consistency in millennial scale climatic change between Gonghe Basin and global change.
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About the corresponding author:Jin Heling，born in 1963，is a research professor at Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute，Chinese Academy of Sciences.He is engaged in Quaternary Geology and global climate change.Tel: 0931-4967495;E-mail: jinhlster@gmail.com.
About author: Liu Bing，born in 1985，is doctoral candidate in Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute，Chinese Academy of Sciences.He majors in environmental variation in arid regions and climate change.E-mail:liubing900426@163.com.
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Liu Bing,Jin Heling,Sun Zhong et al. Millennial scale climate change in the Holocene revealed by trace elements of aeolian deposits in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau[J]. JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, 2013, 15(3): 423-433.
Liu Bing,Jin Heling,Sun Zhong et al. Millennial scale climate change in the Holocene revealed by trace elements of aeolian deposits in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau[J]. JOPC, 2013, 15(3): 423-433.
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