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A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau
Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova Cave1–3 in Siberia. They are also know...
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Feathered sand ridges in the Kumtagh Desert and their position in the classification system
Feathered sand ridges in the northeastern Kumtagh Desert in China cover an area of 4016 km2 and consist of crescent sand ridges and interridge tongue-shaped dunes. Differences in grain size, mineral composition a...
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Sedimentary characteristics of paleo-aeolian dune sands of Salawusu Formation in the Salawusu River Valley
The Salawusu Formation of Milanggouwan section in Salawusu River Valley includes 7 layers of paleo-mobile dune sands, and 4 layers of paleo-fixed and semi-fixed dune sands. Their structures have been observed ...
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Responses of desertification to variations in wind activity over the past five decades in arid and semiarid areas in China
There have been significant variations in wind activity over the past five decades in arid and semiarid areas in China. High wind activity occurred from the 1960s to the 1970s, but wind activity has decreased ...
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Experimental study of surface texture and resonance mechanism of booming sand
The sound-producing mechanism of booming sand has long been a pending problem in the blown sand physics. Based on the earlier researches, the authors collected some silent sand samples from Tengger Desert, Aus...
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Upper Pleistocene human scapula from Salawusu, Inner Mongolia, China
This article presents a fossil human scapula which was found in situ from the lower part of the Salawusu Formation in 1980 at the Salawusu site of Inner Mongolia, China. The stratum is dated from 70.9±6.2 ka BP t...
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Wind tunnel simulation experiment and investigation on the electrification of sandstorms
Electric discharge phenomenon is often observed during the passage of sandstorms over desert regions and sometimes does great damage to human beings. Based on previous researches on the electrification of sand...
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Preliminary reconstruction of the desert and sandy land distributions in China since the last interglacial period
The desert and sandy land are the products of arid climate. The spatial distribution of modern deserts and sandy land in China and their relation to climate show following characteristics: arid and hyper-arid ...
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Characteristics of 137Cs deposition in steppe area
Soil wind erosion in the semiarid steppe area was studied using the 137Cs tracing technique. Comparisons of 137Cs deposition characteristics between different soil profiles indicated that slight aeolian activitie...
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Reconstruction of the spatial patterns of desert/loess boundary belt in North China during the Holocene
The desert/loess boundary belt is the transitional region between desert and loess, where aeolian sand and loess interlock in space and alternate in time. It, being seriously unstable in space-time, sensitive ...
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137Cs tracing of lacustrine sediments in the Dalian Lake, Qinghai Province, China
Based upon the analysis of137Cs and grain-size parameters, the total amounts of137Cs deposition by wind and water in the Dalian Lake of Gonghe Basin, Qinghai Province are defined. The vertical profile of Cs in th...
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Uplift processes for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A comparative study of Yecheng section and Siwalik group
Comparative studies of the Yecheng section at the northern piedmont of the Kunlun Mountain, and the Surai Khola section at the southern piedmont of the Himalayan Mountain, indicates that the Qinghai-Tibet Plat...
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Climate instability in the Yili region, **njiang during the last glaciation
The climate is influenced by westerlies year in year out and the aeolian loess is widespread in the Yili region, the **njiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Through the study of the loess section with a thickness of...
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Preliminary results of the study on wind erosion in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau using137Cs technique
The worldwide fallout of caesium-137 (137Cs) associated with the nuclear weapon tests during the 1950s and 1960s has provided a valuable man-made tracer for studies of soil erosion and sediment delivery. But rela...
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Discovery of Ordos Cretaceous dune rock and its significance
It has been found that there existed quite a large quantity of dune rocks in the red sandstone of the Zhidan Group of Ordos Cretaceous strata. Their sedimentary structure, grain size and micro-shape of sand gr...
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Present status and cause of land desertification in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin
The Yarlung Zangbo River basin is a spacial zone in the south of **ang, the types, distribution and causes of desertified lands have special features. The type, area, distribution and damage of desertification...
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The trajectory parameters analysis of saltating sand grains driven by wind
The study of trajectory parameters of saltating sand grains is of great importance to forming the kinematic theory of wind-sand current. By establishing the simplified theoretical pattern and probing into the ...
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Eolian evidence from the Chinese Loess Plateau: the onset of the Late Cenozoic Great Glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere and Qinghai-**zang Plateau uplift forcing
On the basis of a newly-constructed record of magnetic susceptibility (SUS) and the depositional rate change of eolian loess-red clay sequences in the last 7.2 Ma BP from the hea Plateau, together with a cornp...
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New views on age of the Salawusu Formation of Late Pleistocene in northern China
The Salawusu Formation in the Salawusu River basin of Inner Mongolia is a typical sequence of the Upper Pleistocene in northern China. However, there have been some different views about the division and age o...
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Morphodynamic study of reticulate dunes at southeastern fringe of the Tengger Desert
Reticulate dunes are one of the commonest dune types, and yet the least understood. Reticulate dunes at southeastern Tengger Desert are constituted by NE-SW trending primary ridges and nearly vertical secondar...
