“…This facilitates comparison of terrestrial loess archives over Eurasia and with marine proxy data (e.g., Hovan et al, 1989;Zhou et al, 1995;Vlaminck et al, 2016;Lauer et al, 2017;Zeeden et al, 2018b;Perić et al, 2019), also for loess in Kashmir (Gupta et al, 1991). For loess in Kashmir and the whole Indian subcontinent, yet only rather little quantitative data are available in low resolution compared to studies from Europe (e.g., Antoine et al, 2009;Obreht et al, 2017), Central Asia (e.g., Ding et al, 2002b;Cheng et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2018;Jia et al, 2019) and East Asia (e.g., Ding et al, 2005;Hao and Guo, 2005;Yang and Ding, 2014). The topic of loess in India has been discussed during the last decades without much actual data, and Smalley et al (2009) highlight this knowledge gap by stating "Loess in India has been neglected".…”