Rock-magnetic studies of the Belovo key loess-paleosol section (52.4° N, 83.4° E) have shown that the loess accumulation and pedogenesis on the Ob’ Plateau were affected by a specific regional paleoclimate. During the periods of loess formation corresponding to periods of cooling, the main factor responsible for the higher magnetic properties of loess was the force of wind transporting products of disintegration and weathering of rocks with abundant magnetic material. In the periods of warming the wind became weaker, leading to a reduced supply of clastic and magnetic material and to lower magnetic properties of paleosols to follow the “Alaskan” model. During the interglacials, the climatic conditions were warm and wet enough to favor the enrichment of the rocks of soil complexes in fine-grained magnetic fraction according to the “Chinese” type. Thus, the magnetic properties of the loesses and paleosols of southern West Siberia display a superposition of two known types of record of paleoclimatic fluctuations.

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