Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China

By Zhengtang Guo, W. Ruddiman, Q. Hao, Huilan Wu, Y. Qiao, R. Zhu, Shuzhen Peng, Jianjing Wei, B. Yuan, Tung-sheng Liu. Nature, 2002

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• The origin of Eurasian Mammoth Faunas (Mammuthus–Coelodonta Faunal Complex) (2014, background): “Progressive aeolian deposition north of the Himalaya, documented by increasing dust accumulation rates within loess and red-earth sequences (Guo et al., 2002, 2004), establish that rising aridity occurred from the onset of the Pleistocene at 2.6 Ma onwards.”
• Plant phylogeography in arid Northwest China: Retrospectives and perspectives (2015, background): “By the earlyMiocene, central parts of the QTP may have uplifted to present heights (Wang et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2008), and long-term dust deposition in the Loess Plateau and Dzungarian Basin were established (Guo et al., 2002, 2008; Sun et al., 2010).”
• Tibetan plateau aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene–Oligocene transition (2007, background): “2 m); (2) the absence of sampling in gypsum intervals yielding no palaeomagnetic signal; and (3) possible gaps in such sub-aerial deposits.”
• The physics of wind-blown loess: Implications for grain size proxy interpretations in Quaternary paleoclimate studies (2016, methodology): “Grain size measurements have also been used to identify aeolian dust records from earlier in the Cenozoic (Licht et al., 2014) and longer loess/dust records extend into the Miocene in some areas (Guo et al., 2002; Qiao et al., 2006).”
• Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids (2013, background): “…of the polar ice caps, and the Asian monsoons), leads to a sequence of connections and barriers to terrestrial faunal exchange (Rögl 1999a, b; Adams et al. 1999; MacLeod 1999; Hoorn et al. 2000; Zhisheng et al. 2001; Guo et al. 2002; Liu and Yin 2002; Wilson et al. 2002; Nargolwalla 2009).”