...Zhitao Hao; Xi'an Li; Rongrong Gao; Wei Hu; Jing Zhang; Jun He Abstract The structural specificity and hydrological sensitivity of loess have a big impact on its strength, deformation and long-term stability and safety. This topic is being actively researched, and focuses on the macromechanical...

.... cycles, while pedogenic proxy records from Chinese loess are dominated by highlatitude 100 k.y. cycles. This discrepancy may result from the multicomponent origin of proxies, particularly for pedogenic signals in loess deposits, where the primary climatic signals are modified by pedogenic smoothing...

... to late Quaternary. Chinese loess records suggest that EASM precipitation was dominated by 100 k.y. cycles controlled by Northern Hemisphere ice sheet forcing. In contrast, speleothem records suggest that EASM precipitation was dominated by 23 k.y. cycles caused by Northern Hemisphere summer insolation...

...N.M. Khansivarova; S.V. Levchenko; O.S. Bondareva; A.N. Lednev Abstract —The mineralogy of loess and loess-like sediments has important implications for the mechanisms of postdepositional alteration, as well as for environmental and geotechnical issues. The geotechnical properties of soils...

... used grain-size records from four high-resolution, chronologically well-defined loess sections on the Chinese Loess Plateau to represent past EAWM intensity and its amplitudes. Our results show that the EAWM is weaker and has lower amplitudes during warm periods than during cold stages at various time...

...Guangyan Zhou; Long Li; Guoqiao Xiao; Luo Yan; D. Graham Pearson; Qingzhen Hao; Yuanbao Wu Abstract The origin and provenance of eolian sediments such as loess can potentially reveal paleo-air circulation directions that drive temporal changes in climate. The provenance of these deposits has been...