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Sedimentary Components Responsibilities on the Holocene

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Heihai Lake, a freshwater lake in the area of the East Kunlun Mountains is an accurate monitor of climate-driven hydrological and environmental changes during the past 2000 yr BP. In order to reconstruct the environment in the north Tibetan Plateau, we studied the multi-proxy records from Heihai lake sediments. Major analyses comprise mineral composition (XRD), morphology of minerals (ATEM), geochemical data (XRF), Ostracoda analysis and chronological framework based on AMS14C data. Climate was cold and dry since 1972 yr.BP of the Holocene, which was mainly physical weathering and with a weak chemical weathering. The sedimentary discontinuity happened during 1352 yr.BP and 352 yr.BP, is seen as the size of the lake shrink, which is in consistent with the extremely low temperature and dry climate conditions during the global Glacier Time. From the study, we can conclude that the climate of Tibetan plateau was unstable during the last 2000 years, and extremely cold and dry event happened on Tibetan plateau during the warmer Holocene in China.

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This research was supported by Humanities and Social Science Research Project of Hebei Education Department (No. SD192007), Scientific Research Project of Tangshan Normal University (No. 2019A02), and Scientific Research Project of Tangshan Normal University (No. 2019A04).

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Translated from Khimiya i Tekhnologiya Topliv i Masel, No. 1, pp. 109–115, January–February, 2024.

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Di, Y., Wang, H. & Feng, Y. Sedimentary Components Responsibilities on the Holocene. Chem Technol Fuels Oils 60, 142–150 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10553-024-01665-2

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