Five million year 10Be record in Chinese loess and red-clay: climate and weathering relationships

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Oct 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996e%26psl.144..273g&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 144, Issue 1-2, p. 273-287.

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10Be measurements in bulk samples, in different size fractions, in selective chemically leached fractions of several representative loess-paleosol sequences and in the underlying red-clay sediments from the Chinese Loess Plateau, back to ca. 5 Ma, were made using the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometer). Our data support but considerably extend the earlier studies of Shen and Beer and their colleagues in the upper 0.75 Ma Luochuan loess-paleosol sequences. The effect of climatic change is dramatically expressed by 10Be concentrations: (1) in the red-clay sediments, for which we estimate model accumulation rates of 5.8 and 8.7 m Ma-1 for the upper sequences in Lingtai and Baoji, respectively; (2) in the paleosols where soil maturation processes are manifest in the 10Be distribution within different size fractions, accompanied by downward movement to zones of high authigenic mineral concentration; and (3) in loess samples which, at deposition, had an appreciable endowment of 10Be from the dust source regions. On the basis of leaching experiments, we estimate that, on average, the paleosol layers lost about 3 +/- 3% of their initial 10Be content to the underlying layers by transport with water. Finally, we estimate that the relative average zonal precipitation rate during glacial periods was ~ (2/(3)) × the average interglacial value. The estimates of the initial 10Be concentrations and dust composition are consistent with the measured values for the recent atmospheric dust falls sampled from the Loess Plateau and the Shandong Peninsula.

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