Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
:
Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
26 (1998), S. 111-145
ISSN:
0084-6597
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Geosciences
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract This paper presents a general review of the recent research advances of the East Asian paleomonsoon, based mainly on studies of the loess-soil sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau. In the last 2.6 million years, the paleomonsoonal history may be divided into about 166 events on a time scale of the Earth's orbital variations. During the last glacial period, millenial-scale oscillations of the monsoon system were prominent, which can be fairly well correlated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles recognized in the Greenland ice cores. The monsoonal rainfall belt has experienced a wide, repeated advance-retreat change during the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Pleistocene. Both temporal and spatial changes of the monsoon system in the Quaternary could have been linked closely to global ice-volume variations.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.111
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