Sedimentation rates and mass accumulation rates of sediment and dust in Europe and China ...

• Main Authors: Rousseau, Denis-Didier, Antoine, Pierre, Sun, Youbin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Eurasia; Last Glacial Maximum; Loess; Mass accumulation rates; Millennial scale variability; sedimentation rate; Core; Tipping Points in the Earth System TiPES; Dansgaard-Oeschger events; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.931658; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931658

Loess sequences are a particular record of paleoenvironments and paleoclimates and show regional peculiarities. Among those, European loess sequences show the occurrence of paleosols and other pedogenic units that have been demonstrated to correspond to the Greenland Interstadials (GIS) or Dansgaard-Oeschger events (DO), for the last climate cycle (Moine et al. 2017), of GIS-like for the penultimate climate cycle (Rousseau et al. 2020).During the last climate cycle, these paleosols developed synchronously over Europe along a wide longitude transect eastward in Ukraine (Rousseau et al., 2017). More interesting the development of these paleosols or pedogenic units, occurred during a stop of the dust deposition from the top of the most recently deposited eolian unit. Taking into consideration this point in our manuscript, we revisited the stratigraphy of the European loess sequences by considering the paleodust units, equivalent to Greenland Stadials (GS), as associating the lower loess unit and the overlying ...