Figure 3: Dissimilarities between individual samples and age compilations.
From: Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance
Shown on a multidimensional scaling map36, a visual way to assess the misfit between age distributions using the KS statistic as the dissimilarity measure. Axes are in dimensionless ‘KeS units’ (0<KS<1) of dissimilarity between samples. Final ‘stress’ value is 0.13, indicating a fit between ‘good’ and ‘poor’36. Ranges of variation for individual samples of Quaternary loesses, Paleogene red mudstones and fluvial clastics of the Xining Basin are highlighted by dashed lines. Note that red mudstones individual samples fall within Quaternary loesses on the map, indicating low dissimilarity, but are distinct from Paleogene fluvial clastics of the Xining Basin. Group, age compilations; Ind., individual samples.
