Climate and Environmental Change

Dust source of the Holocene loess-soil and pedogenic environmental changes in the upper Huaihe River

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  • 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China|
    2. Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, China

Received date: 2008-01-02

  Revised date: 2008-06-06

  Online published: 2009-02-25

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National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.40571154; No.40471119

Abstract

Based on field surveys, soil samples were collected at the YPC site, Yuzhou City, Henan Province for analysis of contents of major and trace elements and their variations with XRF and comparison with the curves of magnetic susceptibility, pH value distribution, loss on ignition and particle-size distribution. It was concluded that the dust source of loess in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River Basin was different from that in the Loess Plateau. And the Holocene pedogenic environmental changes in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River Basin were revealed.

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LI Xinyan, HUANG Chunchang, PANG Jiangli, HE Zhong . Dust source of the Holocene loess-soil and pedogenic environmental changes in the upper Huaihe River[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2009 , 19(1) : 107 -117 . DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0107-z

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