VEGETATION COVERAGE AND MONSOON VARIATION RECORDED BY STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE OF LOES SINCE 2.5MA

ZHANG Pu; LIU Wei-guo; QIANG xiao-ke

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1140.2013.01137

Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology > 2013 > 33(1): 137-143. > DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2013.01137

ZHANG Pu, LIU Wei-guo, QIANG xiao-ke. VEGETATION COVERAGE AND MONSOON VARIATION RECORDED BY STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE OF LOES SINCE 2.5MA[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2013, 33(1): 137-143. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2013.01137

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VEGETATION COVERAGE AND MONSOON VARIATION RECORDED BY STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE OF LOES SINCE 2.5MA

1. College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China;
2. State Key Lab of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China;
3. School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

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Received Date: August 18, 2012
Revised Date: October 22, 2012

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The organic carbon isotopes of the Luochuan section show that the δ¹³C values vary from -18.7‰ to -23.5‰, and the downcore distribution of organic carbon isotope could be divided into three stages with similar trends with the magnetic susceptibility in the glacial-interglacial scales. The results demonstrate that 1) the vegetation coverage in the Luochuan area was mainly a mixture of C3 and C4 grassland, 2) the δ¹³C value of loess sequence better recorded the summer monsoon change in the glacial-interglacial scales just as magnetic susceptibility trend. Comparing with the organic carbon isotope of the Duanjiapo and Weinan sections, two times of evident transition on tectonic time scales are recognized since 2.5 Ma.
- organic carbon isotope,
- loess section,
- C₃/C₄ plants,
- the East Asian summer monsoon

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