A 249 kyr stack of eight loess grain size records from northern China documenting millennial-scale climate variability

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 798-814

  Yang, Shiling ^a   Ding, Zhongli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; East Asian monsoon; glacial interglacial cycle; grain size; millennial scale climate variability

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CHINESE LOESS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; GRAIN SIZE;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; GRAIN SIZE; ICE SHEET; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84898663150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005113     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. 2 and climate on millennial time scales during the last glacial period, Science, 322, 83-85, doi: 10.1126/science.1160832.
2. An, Z. S., G. Kukla, S. C. Porter, and, J. L. Xiao, (1991), Late Quaternary dust flow on the Chinese Loess Plateau, Catena, 18, 125-132, doi: 10.1016/0341-8162(91)90012-M.
3. 2, Science, 323, 1443-1448, doi: 10.1126/science.1167441.
4. Bond, G., W. Broecker, S. Johnsen, J. McManus, L. Labeyrie, J. Jouzel, and, G. Bonani, (1993), Correlations between climate records from North Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice, Nature, 365, 143-147, doi: 10.1038/365143a0. (Pubitemid 24394502)
5. Broecker, W. S., (1998), Paleocean circulation during the last deglaciation: A bipolar seesaw?, Paleoceanography, 13, 119-121, doi: 10.1029/97PA03707.
6. Broecker, W. S., D. M. Peteet, and, D. Rind, (1985), Does the ocean-atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation?, Nature, 315, 21-26, doi: 10.1038/315021a0. (Pubitemid 16265486)
7. Broecker, W. S., G. Bond, M. Klas, G. Bonani, and, W. Wolfi, (1990), A salt oscillator in the glacial Atlantic? 1. The concept, Paleoceanography, 5, 469-477, doi: 10.1029/PA005i004p00469.
8. Cane, M. A., (1998), A role for the tropical Pacific, Science, 282, 59-61, doi: 10.1126/science.282.5386.59. (Pubitemid 28471125)
9. Chen, L. X., Q. G. Zhu, H. B. Luo, J. H. He, M. Dong, and, Z. Q. Feng, (1991), The East-Asian Monsoon [in Chinese], China Meteorol. Press, Beijing.
10. Chen, F. H., J. Bloemendal, J. M. Wang, J. J. Li, and, F. Oldfield, (1997), High-resolution multi-proxy climate records from Chinese loess: Evidence for rapid climatic changes over the last 75 kyr, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 130, 323-335, doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00149-6.
11. Chen, F. H., J. Bloemendal, Z. D. Feng, J. M. Wang, E. Parker, and, Z. T. Guo, (1999), East Asian monsoon variations during Oxygen Isotope Stage 5: Evidence from the northwestern margin of the Chinese loess plateau, Quat. Sci. Rev., 18, 1127-1135, doi: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00047-X. (Pubitemid 29375333)
12. Cheng, H., R. L. Edwards, Y. Wang, X. Kong, Y. Ming, M. J. Kelly, X. Wang, C. D. Gallup, and, W. Liu, (2006), A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations, Geology, 34, 217-220, doi: 10.1130/G22289.1.
13. Cheng, H., P. Z. Zhang, C. Spötl, R. L. Edwards, Y. J. Cai, D. Z. Zhang, W. C. Sang, M. Tan, and, Z. S. An, (2012), The climatic cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L01705, doi: 10.1029/2011GL050202.
14. Clement, A. C., and, L. C. Peterson, (2008), Mechanisms of abrupt climate change of the last glacial period, Rev. Geophys., 46, RG4002, doi: 10.1029/2006RG000204.
15. Clement, A. C., M. A. Cane, and, R. Seager, (2001), An orbitally driven tropical source for abrupt climate change, J. Clim., 14, 2369-2375, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014 <2369:AODTSF>2.0.CO;2. (Pubitemid 33045320)
16. Crowley, T. J., (1992), North Atlantic deep water cools the Southern Hemisphere, Paleoceanography, 7, 489-497, doi: 10.1029/92PA01058. (Pubitemid 23377093)
17. Dannenmann, S., B. K. Linsley, D. W. Oppo, Y. Rosenthal, and, L. Beaufort, (2003), East Asian monsoon forcing of suborbital variability in the Sulu Sea during Marine Isotope Stage 3: Link to Northern Hemisphere climate, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4 (1), 1001, doi: 10.1029/2002GC000390.
18. Dansgaard, W., et al. (1993), Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record, Nature, 364, 218-220, doi: 10.1038/364218a0. (Pubitemid 24391986)
19. Denniston, R. F., Y. Asmerom, V. Polyak, J. A. Dorale, S. J. Carpenter, C. Trodick, B. Hoye, and, L. A. González, (2007), Synchronous millennial-scale climatic changes in the Great Basin and the North Atlantic during the last interglacial, Geology, 35, 619-622, doi: 10.1130/G23445A.1. (Pubitemid 47099247)
20. Ding, Z., Z. Yu, N. W. Rutter, and, T. Liu, (1994), Towards an orbital time scale for Chinese loess deposits, Quat. Sci. Rev., 13, 39-70, doi: 10.1016/0277-3791(94)90124-4.
21. Ding, Z., T. Liu, N. W. Rutter, Z. Yu, Z. Guo, and, R. Zhu, (1995), Ice-volume forcing of East Asian winter monsoon variations in the past 800,000 years, Quat. Res., 44, 149-159, doi: 10.1006/qres.1995.1059. (Pubitemid 26441274)
22. Ding, Z. L., N. W. Rutter, T. S. Liu, J. M. Sun, J. Z. Ren, D. Rokosh, and, S. F. Xiong, (1998), Correlation of Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles between Greenland ice and Chinese loess, Paleoclimates, 2, 281-291.
23. Ding, Z. L., J. Z. Ren, S. L. Yang, and, T. S. Liu, (1999), Climate instability during the penultimate glaciation: Evidence from two high-resolution loess records, China, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 20,123-20,132, doi: 10.1029/1999JB900183.
24. 18O record, Paleoceanography, 17 (3), 1033, doi: 10.1029/2001PA000725.
25. Ding, Z. L., E. Derbyshire, S. L. Yang, J. M. Sun, and, T. S. Liu, (2005), Stepwise expansion of desert environment across northern China in the past 3.5 Ma and implications for monsoon evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 237, 45-55, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.036. (Pubitemid 41235824)
26. EPICA Community Members (2006), One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica, Nature, 444, 195-198, doi: 10.1038/nature05301.
27. Fang, X. M., et al. (1999), Asian summer monsoon instability during the past 60,000 years: Magnetic susceptibility and pedogenic evidence from the western Chinese Loess Plateau, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 168, 219-232, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00053-9.
28. Gildor, H., and, E. Tziperman, (2003), Sea-ice switches and abrupt climate change, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London A, 361, 1935-1944, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1244. (Pubitemid 37256174)
29. Grootes, P. M., M. Stuiver, J. W. C. White, S. Johnsen, and, J. Jouzel, (1993), Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores, Nature, 366, 552-554, doi: 10.1038/366552a0.
30. Heinrich, H., (1988), Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130,000 years, Quat. Res., 29, 142-152, doi: 10.1016/0033-5894(88)90057-9. (Pubitemid 19296067)
31. Hendy, I. L., J. P. Kennett, E. B. Roark, and, B. L. Ingram, (2002), Apparent synchroneity of submillennial scale climate events between Greenland and Santa Barbara Basin, California from 30-10 ka, Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 1167-1184, doi: 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00138-X. (Pubitemid 34494879)
32. Huang, C. Y., S. F. Wu, M. Zhao, M. T. Chen, C. H. Wang, X. Tu, and, P. B. Yuan, (1997), Surface ocean and monsoon climate variability in the South China Sea since the last glaciation, Mar. Micropaleontol., 32, 71-94, doi: 10.1016/S0377-8398(97)00014-5. (Pubitemid 27506508)
33. 4, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 243, 504-519, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.002. (Pubitemid 43380913)
34. Imbrie, J., et al. (1993), On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles 2. The 100,000-year cycle, Paleoceanography, 8, 699-735, doi: 10.1029/93PA02751.
35. 2 concentration from 60 to 20 kyr BP from the Taylor Dome ice core, Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 735-738, doi: 10.1029/1999GL010960.
36. Ivanochko, T. S., R. S. Ganeshram, G. J. A. Brummer, G. Ganssen, S. J. A. Jung, S. G. Moreton, and, D. Kroon, (2005), Variations in tropical convection as an amplifier of global climate change at the millennial scale, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 235, 302-314, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.04.002. (Pubitemid 40841306)
37. Jouzel, J., et al. (2007), Orbital and millennial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years, Science, 317, 793-796, doi: 10.1126/science.1141038. (Pubitemid 47263433)
38. Kaspi, Y., R. Sayag, and, E. Tziperman, (2004), A "triple sea-ice state" mechanism for the abrupt warming and synchronous ice sheet collapses during Heinrich events, Paleoceanography, 19, PA3004, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001009.
39. Knutti, R., J. Flückiger, T. F. Stocker, and, A. Timmermann, (2004), Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation, Nature, 430, 851-856, doi: 10.1038/nature02786. (Pubitemid 39119207)
40. Kukla, G., (1987), Loess stratigraphy in Central China, Quat. Sci. Rev., 6, 191-219, doi: 10.1016/0277-3791(87)90004-7.
41. Lambeck, K., (1995), Constraints on the Late Weichselian ice sheet over the Barents Sea from observations of raised shorelines, Quat. Sci. Rev., 14, 1-16, doi: 10.1016/0277-3791(94)00107-M.
42. Landais, A., N. Caillon, C. Goujon, A. M. Grachev, J. M. Barnola, J. Chappellaz, J. Jouzel, V. Masson-Delmotte, and, M. Leuenberger, (2004), Quantification of rapid temperature change during DO event 12 and phasing with methane inferred from air isotopic measurements, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 225, 221-232, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.06.009. (Pubitemid 39122636)
43. Lang, C., M. Leuenberger, J. Schwander, and, S. Johnsen, (1999), 16°C rapid temperature variation in Central Greenland 70,000 years ago, Science, 286, 934-937, doi: 10.1126/science.286.5441.934.
44. Lea, D. W., D. K. Pak, L. C. Peterson, and, K. A. Hughen, (2003), Synchroneity of tropical and high-latitude Atlantic temperatures over the last glacial termination, Science, 301, 1361-1364, doi: 10.1126/science.1088470. (Pubitemid 37075808)
45. Li, C., D. S. Battisti, D. P. Schrag, and, E. Tziperman, (2005), Abrupt climate shifts in Greenland due to displacements of the sea ice edge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19702, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023492.
46. 18O records, Paleoceanography, 20, PA1003, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001071.
47. Liu, T. S., (1985), Loess and the Environment, China Ocean Press, Beijing.
48. Lu, H., K. O. van Huissteden, Z. An, G. Nugteren, and, J. Vandenberghe, (1999), East Asia winter monsoon variations on a millennial time-scale before the last glacial-interglacial cycle, J. Quat. Sci., 14, 101-110, doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199903)14:2 <101::AID-JQS433>3.0.CO;2-M. (Pubitemid 29229200)
49. Lu, Y. C., X. L. Wang, and, A. G. Wintle, (2007), A new OSL chronology for dust accumulation in the last 130,000 yr for the Chinese Loess Plateau, Quat. Res., 67, 152-160, doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.08.003. (Pubitemid 46112151)
50. Lydolph, P. E., (1977), Climates of the Soviet Union, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
51. Matsumoto, K., (2007), Radiocarbon-based circulation age of the world oceans, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C09004, doi: 10.1029/2007JC004095.
52. McManus, J. F., D. W. Oppo, and, J. L. Cullen, (1999), A 0.5-million-year record of millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic, Science, 283, 971-975, doi: 10.1126/science.283.5404.971.
53. North Greenland Ice Core Project Members (2004), High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period, Nature, 431, 147-151, doi: 10.1038/nature02805.
54. Pang, Z., Y. Kong, K. Froehlich, T. Huang, L. Yuan, Z. Li, and, F. Wang, (2011), Processes affecting isotopes in precipitation of an arid region, Tellus, Ser. B, 63, 352-359, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00532.x.
55. Penaud, A., F. Eynaud, J. L. Turon, S. Zaragosi, F. Marret, and, J. F. Bourillet, (2008), Interglacial variability (MIS 5 and MIS 7) and dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the Bay of Biscay (North Atlantic), Mar. Micropaleontol., 68, 136-155, doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.01.007.
56. Porter, S. C., and, Z. S. An, (1995), Correlation between climate events in the North Atlantic and China during the last glaciation, Nature, 375, 305-308, doi: 10.1038/375305a0.
57. Prokopenko, A. A., E. B. Karabanov, D. F. Williams, M. I. Kuzmin, N. J. Shackleton, S. J. Crowhurst, J. A. Peck, A. N. Gvozdkov, and, J. W. King, (2001), Biogenic silica record of the Lake Baikal response to climatic forcing during the Brunhes, Quat. Res., 55, 123-132, doi: 10.1006/qres.2000.2212. (Pubitemid 32292324)
58. Raymo, M. E., K. Ganley, S. Carter, D. W. Oppo, and, J. McManus, (1998), Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch, Nature, 392, 699-702, doi: 10.1038/33658. (Pubitemid 28207786)
59. Rohling, E. J., P. A. Mayewski, and, P. Challenor, (2003), On the timing and mechanism of millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial cycle, Clim. Dyn., 20, 257-267, doi: 10.1007/s00382-002-0266-4. (Pubitemid 36189554)
60. Rooth, C., (1982), Hydrology and ocean circulation, Prog. Oceanogr., 11, 131-149, doi: 10.1016/0079-6611(82)90006-4.
61. Roucoux, K. H., P. C. Tzedakis, L. de Abreu, and, N. J. Shackleton, (2006), Climate and vegetation changes 180,000 to 345,000 years ago recorded in a deep-sea core off Portugal, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 249, 307-325, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.005. (Pubitemid 44478715)
62. Roucoux, K. H., P. C. Tzedakis, M. R. Frogley, I. T. Lawson, and, R. C. Preece, (2008), Vegetation history of the marine isotope stage 7 interglacial complex at Ioannina, NW Greece, Quat. Sci. Rev., 27, 1378-1395, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.002.
63. Ruddiman, W. F., and, A. McIntyre, (1982), Severity and speed of Northern Hemisphere glaciation pulses: The limiting case?, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 93, 1273-1279, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1982)93 <1273:SASONH>2.0.CO;2.
64. Steffensen, J. P., et al. (2008), High-resolution Greenland ice core data show abrupt climate change happens in few years, Science, 321, 680-684, doi: 10.1126/science.1157707.
65. Stevens, T., S. J. Armitage, H. Lu, and, D. S. G. Thomas, (2006), Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records, Geology, 34, 849-852, doi: 10.1130/G22472.1. (Pubitemid 44575848)
66. Stocker, T. F., (1998), The seesaw effect, Science, 282, 61-62, doi: 10.1126/science.282.5386.61. (Pubitemid 28471126)
67. Stocker, T. F., and, S. J. Johnsen, (2003), A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw, Paleoceanography, 18 (4), 1087, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000920.
68. Stocker, T. F., D. G. Wright, and, W. S. Broecker, (1992), The influence of high-latitude surface forcing on the global thermohaline circulation, Paleoceanography, 7, 529-541, doi: 10.1029/92PA01695. (Pubitemid 23380250)
69. Sun, Y., S. C. Clemens, C. Morrill, X. Lin, X. Wang, and, Z. An, (2012), Influence of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on the East Asian winter monsoon, Nat. Geosci., 5, 46-49, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1326.
70. Svendsen, J. I., et al. (2004), Late Quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia, Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 1229-1271, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.12.008. (Pubitemid 38722333)
71. Svensson, A., et al. (2008), A 60,000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology, Clim. Past, 4, 47-57, doi: 10.5194/cp-4-47-2008. (Pubitemid 351468294)
72. Tian, L., T. Yao, K. MacClune, J. W. C. White, A. Schilla, B. Vaughn, R. Vachon, and, K. Ichiyanagi, (2007), Stable isotopic variations in west China: A consideration of moisture sources, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10112, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007718.
73. Tzedakis, P. C., J. F. McManus, H. Hooghiemstra, D. W. Oppo, and, T. A. Wijmstra, (2003), Comparison of changes in vegetation in northeast Greece with records of climate variability on orbital and suborbital frequencies over the last 450,000 years, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 212, 197-212, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00233-4. (Pubitemid 36887283)
74. Voelker, A. H. L., and Workshop Participants (2002), Global distribution of centennial-scale records for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3: A database, Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 1185-1212, doi: 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00139-1. (Pubitemid 34494880)
75. Wang, L., et al. (1999), East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: High-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea, Mar. Geol., 156, 245-284, doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00182-0. (Pubitemid 29130895)
76. Wang, Y. J., H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, Z. S. An, J. Y. Wu, C. C. Shen, and, J. A. Dorale, (2001), A high-resolution absolute-dated late Pleistocene monsoon record from Hulu Cave, China, Science, 294, 2345-2348, doi: 10.1126/science.1064618. (Pubitemid 33140556)
77. Wang, B., S. C. Clemens, and, P. Liu, (2003), Contrasting the Indian and East Asian monsoons: Implications on geologic timescales, Mar. Geol., 201, 5-21, doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00196-8. (Pubitemid 37207625)
78. Wang, Y., et al. (2008), Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years, Nature, 451, 1090-1093, doi: 10.1038/nature06692. (Pubitemid 351317452)
79. Watanabe, O., J. Jouzel, S. Johnsen, F. Parrenin, H. Shoji, and, N. Yoshida, (2003), Homogeneous climate variability across East Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles, Nature, 422, 509-512, doi: 10.1038/nature01525. (Pubitemid 36433643)
80. Webster, P. J., V. O. Magaña, T. N. Palmer, J. Shukla, R. A. Tomas, M. Yanai, and, T. Yasunari, (1998), Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 14,451-14,510, doi: 10.1029/97JC02719.
81. Wunsch, C., (2006), Abrupt climate change: An alternative view, Quat. Res., 65, 191-203, doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.10.006.
82. Xiao, J. L., S. C. Porter, Z. S. An, H. Kumai, and, S. Yoshikawa, (1995), Grain size of quartz as an indicator of winter monsoon strength on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 yr, Quat. Res., 43, 22-29, doi: 10.1006/qres.1995.1003.
83. Yang, S., and, Z. Ding, (2008), Advance-retreat history of the East-Asian summer monsoon rainfall belt over northern China during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 274, 499-510, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.001.
84. Yang, S. L., and, Z. L. Ding, (2004), Comparison of particle size characteristics of the Tertiary 'red clay' and Pleistocene loess in the Chinese Loess Plateau: implications for origin and sources of the 'red clay,' Sedimentology, 51, 77-93, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00612.x.
85. Yin, J. H., and, D. S. Battisti, (2001), The importance of tropical sea surface temperature patterns in simulations of Last Glacial Maximum climate, J. Clim., 14, 565-581, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014 <0565:TIOTSS>2.0.CO;2. (Pubitemid 33050500)
86. Zhao, M., C. Y. Huang, C. C. Wang, and, G. Wei, (2006), A millennial-scale U 37 K ′ sea-surface temperature record from the South China Sea (8°N) over the last 150 kyr: Monsoon and sea-level influence, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 236, 39-55, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.033. (Pubitemid 43816619)
87. Zhu, R., R. Zhang, C. Deng, Y. Pan, Q. Liu, and, Y. Sun, (2007), Are Chinese loess deposits essentially continuous?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L17306, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030591.