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Mollusk Record of Monsoon Variability during the L2–S2 Cycle in the Luochuan Loess Sequence, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Denis-Didier Rousseau  and
Naiqin Wu
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Affiliation:
Paléoenvironnements et Palynologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, pl. E. Bataillon, case 61, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964
Naiqin Wu
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing, 100029, China
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Abstract

Molluscan changes that occurred in China over the S2–L2 upper middle Pleistocene series may be caused by monsoon variation. Study of terrestrial mollusks from the loess sequence in Luochuan, gathered in ecological groups according to the moisture and temperature requirements of the identified species, indicates alternating strengthened summer and winter paleomonsoons between 130,000 and 244,000 yr. The four occurrences of species, currently distributed in S.E. China in the sequence, indicate that the climate conditions were warmer and wetter than today between about 242,000 and 233,000 yr, at about 210,000, 164,000, and 140,000 yr. The main occurrence of xerophilous taxa at about 180,000, 154,000, and 138,000 yr is interpreted as indicating a drier environment than today. Such suggestions are in agreement with other proxy data such as grain size distribution. Higher numbers of individuals in the different ecological groups from the S2–L2 sequence indicate more favorable general environmental conditions than in the youngest S1–L1. This may agree with an increase in the regional aridity, since 500,000 yr, deduced from the study of the eolian flux in the northwestern Pacific downwind from China.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , November 1999 , pp. 286 - 292
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University of Washington

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