Palaeowind directions recorded in the youngest loess in Poland and western Ukraine as derived from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility measurements
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Studies of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) were carried out in order to define the directions and strength of palaeowind during the sedimentation of the youngest loesses in Poland and western Ukraine. These sediments, like the Chinese and Alaskan loesses, appear suitable for application of the AMS method. The inclined mean minimum axes were considered as reflecting the prevailing palaeowind direction at the time of loess sedimentation. The majority of the sections studied indicate a palaeowind direction from W-SW to E-NE, with a mean azimuth of 2588. This direction corresponds to the strike of the Weichselian ice-sheet margin and is parallel to the axis of the lowland between the ice-sheet margin to the north and the Carpathian Mountains and the Podole Upland to the south. Further AMS studies of the oldest parts of loess sequences in Poland and western Ukraine may help in reconstruction of the atmospheric circulation in this part of Europe since c. 900 kyr BP.Keywords:
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Ⅰ. RESEARCHED PROFILEIn China, the most detailed study on loess was carried out in the Heimugou loess profile located at Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province, where the loess has a thickness of 135m. According to the lithologic character, loess of this section can be divided into Pouto loess, Malan loess, Lishi loess and Wucheng loess. The layer of red clay, 15m
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Yili area is located in the west of Xinjiang and is an intermountane basin of Tianshan, in which the loess is widespread. Only a few studies were carried out during past decades. For this reason, there are different opinions on the origin of loess. The results of grain size analysis of loess and reworked loess show that the textural features of both are same on one side and different on the other side. Firstly, the composition of grain size of loess is similar to that of the reworked loess, but the sand particles of loess is higher and the clay particles is lower than that of reworked loess. Secondly, the frequency curve of loess and reworked loess occures to be positive normal distribution. The mode of both locates in the range of 15-30μm, but the percentages are different. The amount of loess is less than 20 %, while the maxmum percentage of reworked loess reaches 50 %. Thirdly, the sorting of loess is better than that of the reworked loess, even though both are poor sorting deposits. The skewness of loess ranges from 0. 13 to 0. 43 and most of them is lower than 0. 3. Comparied with the loess, the skewness of reworked loess is higher and the mediun size moves toward coarse side. The kurtosis of loess is medium, while peak of reworked loess is steep. In summary, the loess and the reworked loess were transported and sorted by different dynamics before the dust deposited. In addition, the depositing environments were also different. The evidences from the grain size show the loess in Yili area is a typical eolian deposit.
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Based on filed survey,the very typical Holocene loess strata were found on the Changchengyuan Loess Tableland in Pengyang,Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.Seven samples were collected from a Holocene loess-paleosol profile in the study area.The dating of these samples was tested using the optical stimulated luminescence dating.The results show that Malan loess formed around 12.58 ka BP.when it was drought;the transitional loess formed around 11.498 ka BP.when it was relatively warm;the paleosol formed during the periods of 6.731 ka BP.and 2.827 ka BP.when it was very warm;the Holocene loess formed around 1.394 ka BP.when it was drought again.The results are similar to the dating data of MJY profile and ETC profile,so they are reliable.
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