Qingzhen Hao

TL;DR: This new evidence indicates that large source areas of aeolian dust and energetic winter monsoon winds to transport the material must have existed in the interior of Asia by the early Miocene epoch, at least 14 million years earlier than previously thought.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relevant depositional and soil forming processes of the Miocene loess-soil sequences to determine the circulation characteristics with emphasis on the early Miocene continuous eolian deposition in the middle reaches of the Yellow River since the early miocene firmly indicates the formation of inland deserts.

TL;DR: In this paper, an East Asian winter monsoon proxy record using grain size variations in Chinese loess over the past 900,000 years was presented, showing that the weak monsoon winds maintained a mild, non-glacial climate at high northern latitudes.

TL;DR: In this article, a new Danube Basin wide loess stratigraphy based on a synthetic type section of the Mosorin and Stari Slankamen sites in Serbia is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, an index of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) was established by comparing the results of a sediment trap experiment and 100-year sedimentary record from Huguang Maar Lake (HML) with modern records of the EAWM, Siberian High (SH) and Arctic Oscillation (AO).