Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon
The mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils (VRS) from Xuancheng (Anhui Province) and Bose (Guangxi) are studied through soil micromor-phological, mineralogical and chemical approaches. The results indicate a polygenetic nature of the VRS, having experienced multiple soil-forming stages. Three main s...
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ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:122645 2024-05-19T07:44:06+00:00 Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon Yin, Qiuzhen Guo, Z.T. UCL - SC/PHYS - Département de physique 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/122645 eng eng Zhongguo Kexue Zazhishe boreal:122645 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/122645 urn:ISSN:1001-6538 urn:EISSN:1861-9541 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Chinese Science Bulletin, Vol. 51, no. 2, p. 213-220 (2006) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2006 ftunivlouvain 2024-04-24T01:39:46Z The mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils (VRS) from Xuancheng (Anhui Province) and Bose (Guangxi) are studied through soil micromor-phological, mineralogical and chemical approaches. The results indicate a polygenetic nature of the VRS, having experienced multiple soil-forming stages. Three main stages have been recognized, attribut-able to distinct climate regimes. They include the formation of the homogeneous matrix of a red soil (stage 1), development of the white veins within the soil profile (stage 2), and formation of juxtaposed textural features (stage 3). The white veins, resulting from iron-depletion in the groundmass of the homo-geneous matrix of a red soil, required abundant rainfall without significant seasonal desiccations. The geographically widely spread VRS south of the Yangtze River in China implies a Mid-Pleistocene extreme East Asian summer monsoon. This climate extreme might be closely linked with the changes in the strength of NADW. Article in Journal/Newspaper NADW DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) |
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The mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils (VRS) from Xuancheng (Anhui Province) and Bose (Guangxi) are studied through soil micromor-phological, mineralogical and chemical approaches. The results indicate a polygenetic nature of the VRS, having experienced multiple soil-forming stages. Three main stages have been recognized, attribut-able to distinct climate regimes. They include the formation of the homogeneous matrix of a red soil (stage 1), development of the white veins within the soil profile (stage 2), and formation of juxtaposed textural features (stage 3). The white veins, resulting from iron-depletion in the groundmass of the homo-geneous matrix of a red soil, required abundant rainfall without significant seasonal desiccations. The geographically widely spread VRS south of the Yangtze River in China implies a Mid-Pleistocene extreme East Asian summer monsoon. This climate extreme might be closely linked with the changes in the strength of NADW. |
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Yin, Qiuzhen Guo, Z.T. Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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Mid-Pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern China as an indication of unusually strengthened East Asian monsoon |
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mid-pleistocene vermiculated red soils in southern china as an indication of unusually strengthened east asian monsoon |
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Zhongguo Kexue Zazhishe |
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Chinese Science Bulletin, Vol. 51, no. 2, p. 213-220 (2006) |
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