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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Xiaozhong Huang, Thomas Kasper, Shijie Li, Xingqi Liu, Stephan Opitz, Yongbo Wang and Wei Zhong who kindly provided original grain-size data for sediment cores of lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and northwestern-most China. We thank Mark Brenner for editorial improvements of the original draft. Funding was provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and China NSF (41290252, 41121001, 41172168).

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  1. Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Steffen Mischke

  2. Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Universität Potsdam, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

    Steffen Mischke

  3. MOE Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Research School of Arid Environment and Climate Change, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    David Madsen

  4. School of Earth Sciences and Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources in Western China, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Chengjun Zhang

  5. School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Zhongping Lai

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Mischke, S., Madsen, D., Zhang, C. et al. Reply to comment by Zhang (2014): The Shell Bar in the Qaidam Basin: fluvial or lake deposit, and OSL versus 14C age data. J Paleolimnol 53, 335–344 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-014-9817-z

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