Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment

Junsheng Nie (), Thomas Stevens, Martin Rittner, Daniel Stockli, Eduardo Garzanti, Mara Limonta, Anna Bird, Sergio Andò, Pieter Vermeesch, Joel Saylor, Huayu Lu, Daniel Breecker, Xiaofei Hu, Shanpin Liu, Alberto Resentini, Giovanni Vezzoli, Wenbin Peng, Andrew Carter, Shunchuan Ji and Baotian Pan
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Junsheng Nie: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Thomas Stevens: Uppsala University
Martin Rittner: University College London
Daniel Stockli: University of Texas
Eduardo Garzanti: University of Milano-Bicocca
Mara Limonta: University of Milano-Bicocca
Anna Bird: Environment and Earth Sciences, University of Hull
Sergio Andò: University of Milano-Bicocca
Pieter Vermeesch: University College London
Joel Saylor: University of Houston
Huayu Lu: School of Oceanographic and Geographic Sciences, Nanjing University
Daniel Breecker: University of Texas
Xiaofei Hu: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Shanpin Liu: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Alberto Resentini: University of Milano-Bicocca
Giovanni Vezzoli: University of Milano-Bicocca
Wenbin Peng: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Andrew Carter: Birkbeck, University of London
Shunchuan Ji: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Baotian Pan: Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Marine accumulations of terrigenous sediment are widely assumed to accurately record climatic- and tectonic-controlled mountain denudation and play an important role in understanding late Cenozoic mountain uplift and global cooling. Underpinning this is the assumption that the majority of sediment eroded from hinterland orogenic belts is transported to and ultimately stored in marine basins with little lag between erosion and deposition. Here we use a detailed and multi-technique sedimentary provenance dataset from the Yellow River to show that substantial amounts of sediment eroded from Northeast Tibet and carried by the river’s upper reach are stored in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the western Mu Us desert. This finding revises our understanding of the origin of the Chinese Loess Plateau and provides a potential solution for mismatches between late Cenozoic terrestrial sedimentation and marine geochemistry records, as well as between global CO2 and erosion records.

Date: 2015
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