Fig. 5: Comparison of loess provenance changes with records of bedrock erosion and rainstorm events. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 5: Comparison of loess provenance changes with records of bedrock erosion and rainstorm events.

From: Intensified monsoonal rainstorm events over westerly-dominated Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene

Fig. 5: Comparison of loess provenance changes with records of bedrock erosion and rainstorm events.

a The Ce changes (this study) illustrating shifts in cerium concentrations over time. b The Nd changes (this study) showing variations in neodymium concentrations. c Extreme dry and wet annual events recorded in the Qaidam Basin71 over the past 6700 years. These events were identified in the precipitation reconstruction by surpassing the 10th and 90th percentiles of the entire period. d Rainstorm events record of Lake Heihai70 in the Kunlun Mountains. Cluster 2 denotes the association of lake surface samples to the mineralogical cluster. The change of this proxy record captures variations in runoff caused by precipitation linked to Summer Monsoon intensity.

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