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The age of formation of the mirabilite and sand wedges in the Hexi Corridor and their paleoclimatic interpretation

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Sand wedges in the Hexi Corridor mainly formed in an alluvial gravel stratum of the late Pleistocene and the radiocarbon ages of the eolian sand infilling wedge prove that they were a product of the last ice age. During their period of formation, the mean annual air temperature in the Hexi Corridor was about -5.3℃, i. e. about 13℃ lower than that of the present. This estimated value iscoincident with the decrease in air temperature predicated from mirabilite (Na2SO4·10H2O) sedimentary layer in study area, and also agrees with research on theestimated amplitude of air temperature lowering in middle and high latitudes ofthe Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial period. The annual precipitation in the Western Hexi Corridor at that time was probably about 100-200 mm, i.e.about 100 mm more than at present.

mirabilitesand wedgespaleoclimatic interpretationlast ice ageHexi Corridor

WANG Nai'ang、Zhang Jianming、CHENG Hongyi、Guo Jianying、ZHAO Qiang

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College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)国家自然科学基金

G2000048701G40071031

2003

科学通报(英文版)
中国科学院

科学通报(英文版)

SCI
ISSN:1001-6538
年,卷(期):2003.48(14)
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