This article presents magnetic data of a 300-m-thick Mio-Pliocene red clay and Quaternary loess-paleosol sequence near Chaona town in the Central Chinese Loess Plateau. Detailed magnetostratigraphy shows that the aeolian red clay began to accumulate at ca. 8.1 Ma. Here, we presented a high-resolution rock magnetic data at 20-40 cm intervals within 4.5-8 ka span per sample of this section, which...

Well-distributed eolian red clay in a wide area of northern China is believed to imply the onset of an ancient East Asian monsoon system since Late Miocene. Two continuous red clay sequences spanning the time interval 7-2.6 Ma and 11-2.6 Ma in the Chinese Loess Plateau was investigated to determine the magnetic orientation and grain alignment in the primary fabric of eolian sediments. The north...

This study covers the examination of four loess–paleosol profiles in Hungary through grain size composition, organic matter, carbonate content and magnetic susceptibility measurements. One (with a thickness 25.72 m) can be found Gödöllő hills, on border town Pécel, other three (Kisdorog-West—5.60 m, Kisdorog-East—6.40 Bonyhádvarasd—8.16 are located Tolna hills Transdanubia region. The sections ...

Loess deposits distributed in southeastern China play an important role for paleoclimate reconstruction of the subtropical regions. These loess-paleosol are mainly spread within middle and lower reaches Yangtze River as well drainage area Huai River. The ages loess paleosol sequences that along not constrained. In this study, standard single-aliquot regenerative dose (SAR) optically stimulated ...

Iron mobilization during continental weathering was pervasive before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) that started at around 2.43 billion years (Ga) ago, due to soluble nature of reduced iron. However, various geochemical proxies indicate transient oxygenation deposition Mesoarchean (?2.95 Ga) Pongola Supergroup, South Africa, which suggests could have also occurred under transiently oxic condit...