“…Therefore, we developed an astronomically tuned time scale based on the high-resolution integrated pollen index. Matching paleoclimatic records to time series of orbital parameters (i.e., orbital tuning) has proven useful for developing age models and has been widely applied to marine sediments (Raymo et al, 1989; Ruddiman et al, 1989; Shackleton et al, 1990; Hilgen, 1991a, 1991b; Tian et al, 2002; Palike et al, 2006; Ao et al, 2011; Yi et al, 2018), Chinese loess-paleosol and red clay sequences (Ding et al, 1994, 2002; Lu et al, 1999; Heslop et al, 2000; Sun et al, 2006a), and continental lacustrine and fluvial strata (Prokopenko et al, 2006; Hu et al, 2007; Ao et al, 2012; Nowaczyk et al, 2013; Torres et al, 2013).…”