A new correlation between Chinese loess and deep-sea δ18O records since the middle Pleistocene

Magnetostratigraphy and magnetic susceptibility of the best developed Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequences of Ukraine: implications for correlation and proposed chronostratigraphic models

“…Some au thors (e.g., Wang et al, 2006;Bolshakov, 2017;Jin et al, 2019) have ques tioned the lock-in depth hy poth e sis. They con sid ered sin gling out nine palaeosol units within the Brunhes chron (S0 to S8, where S8 in stead of S7 cor re sponds to MIS 19), in clud ing still only one MIS 13-15 pedocomplex and an ad di tional MIS 18.2 interstadial soil (Wang et al, 2006), or sep a rate MIS 13 and MIS 15 units (Bolshakov, 2017;Jin et al, 2019).…”

“…Some au thors (e.g., Wang et al, 2006;Bolshakov, 2017;Jin et al, 2019) have ques tioned the lock-in depth hy poth e sis. They con sid ered sin gling out nine palaeosol units within the Brunhes chron (S0 to S8, where S8 in stead of S7 cor re sponds to MIS 19), in clud ing still only one MIS 13-15 pedocomplex and an ad di tional MIS 18.2 interstadial soil (Wang et al, 2006), or sep a rate MIS 13 and MIS 15 units (Bolshakov, 2017;Jin et al, 2019). This in ter pre ta tion is sup ported by data from the Luochuan, Sunmenxia, Jixian and Baicaoyuan sec tions in the cen tral and south east ern part of the CLP (Heller and Liu, 1984;Wang et al, 2006Wang et al, , 2014Jin and Liu, 2011;Liu et al, 2015;Jin et al, 2019), where the Matuyama-Brunhes re ver sal is fixed in palaeosol S8 be low L8.…”

Northern Hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition

“…1). Other CLP loess-palaeosol sections, including Lingtai 18,23 , Jingchuan 18,35 , Baicaoyuan 33 , Zhaojiachuan 23 , and Lantian 36 , were synchronized to this chronology by median grain size or χ correlations. After synchronization, we used the interpolating function in the Acycle software 66 to conservatively resample the grain size and χ records at 0.5-kyr intervals to obtain evenly spaced data series, which were further averaged to establish median grain size and χ stacks.…”

Early–Middle Pleistocene Magnetostratigraphic and Rock Magnetic Records of the Dolynske Section (Lower Danube, Ukraine) and Their Application to the Correlation of Loess–Palaeosol Sequences in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

“…Some authors (e.g., Wang et al [276], Jin and Liu [277] and Bolshakov [278]) have questioned the lock-in depth hypothesis. They consider the S8 palaeosol (instead of S7) as a correlative of MIS 19, proposing the correlation of S7 with MIS 18.2 interstadial [276] or singling out two palaeosol units corresponding to separate MIS 13 (S5) and MIS 15 (S6) [278,279]. This interpretation is supported by data from the Luochuan, Sunmenxia, Jixian and Baicaoyuan sections in the central and south-eastern part of the CLP [86,146,147,276,277,279,280] where the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal is fixed in the palaeosol S8 below L8.…”

“…They consider the S8 palaeosol (instead of S7) as a correlative of MIS 19, proposing the correlation of S7 with MIS 18.2 interstadial [276] or singling out two palaeosol units corresponding to separate MIS 13 (S5) and MIS 15 (S6) [278,279]. This interpretation is supported by data from the Luochuan, Sunmenxia, Jixian and Baicaoyuan sections in the central and south-eastern part of the CLP [86,146,147,276,277,279,280] where the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal is fixed in the palaeosol S8 below L8. Thus, with the knowledge we have at present, the correlation with the loess-palaeosol sequences in the CLP is not straightforward.…”