Mid-to-Late Holocene climate changes on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert: Evidence from the Gaotai Lake sediments

FU Mengxuan; YU Shiyong; WU Jinjia; CHEN Shiyue; HOU Zhanfang; ZHOU Ruiwen; LI Zheng; WEI Benjie

doi:10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019110602

Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology > 2020 > 40(4): 192-203. > DOI: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019110602

FU Mengxuan, YU Shiyong, WU Jinjia, CHEN Shiyue, HOU Zhanfang, ZHOU Ruiwen, LI Zheng, WEI Benjie. Mid-to-Late Holocene climate changes on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert: Evidence from the Gaotai Lake sediments[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2020, 40(4): 192-203. DOI: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019110602

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Mid-to-Late Holocene climate changes on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert: Evidence from the Gaotai Lake sediments

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School of Environment and Planning, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
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School of Geography, Geomatics and Planning, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
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The Grand Canal Research Institute, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
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State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an 710061, China

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Received Date: November 05, 2019
Revised Date: April 07, 2020
Available Online: August 20, 2020

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The Gaotai Lake is located on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert. Under the influence of Asia monsoon and westerlies, there preserve reliable records of climatic changes for the Asia’s interior during the Mid-to-Late Holocene. Based on OSL dating and high-resolution multi-proxy records such as carbonate content, color, grain-size end-member (EM) modeling, it is inferred that the lake has experienced four distinct phases of climatic changes during the period from Mid-to-Late Holocene. Our results suggest that it used to be a shallow lake or nearshore environment during 7.1～5.3 ka, under a relatively dry climate condition. During the period of 5.3～1.2 ka, the lake was expanded and reached its highest level. Also, the records of carbonate content and a* and b* indices indicate that precipitation was increased and erosion intensified, representing the wettest period during the time of Mid-to-Late Holocene. In the period of 1.2～0.2 ka, the region changed back to a shallow lake or nearhore environment, and the climate turned to dry again. After 0.2 ka, the lake disappeared and the place is predominated by modern sand dunes under a drier climate. Regional proxy records show that the evolution of the Gaotai Lake is consistent and comparable with the lake records in arid Central Asia, where the climate is mainly affected by the westerlies and the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean.
- grain-size end member,
- climatic change,
- Mid-to-Late Holocene,
- Gaotai Lake

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Mid-to-Late Holocene climate changes on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert: Evidence from the Gaotai Lake sediments