• journal_title：Geology
• Contributor：George Kukla ; Friedrich Heller ; Liu Xiu Ming ; Xu Tong Chun ; Liu Tung Sheng ; An Zhi Sheng
• Publisher：Geological Society of America
• Date：1988-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0811:PCICDB>2.3.CO;2
• journal_abbrev：Geology
• issn：0091-7613
• volume：16
• issue：9
• firstpage：811

The magnetic susceptibility of loess and interbedded soils in central China varies with the degree of pedogenesis and serves as a proxy measure of climate. The concentration of magnetic minerals in the sediment is inversely proportional to sedimentation rates throughout the Brunhes epoch. Susceptibility measurements combined with the reversal stratigraphy provide a time scale that is independent of astronomic chronology. On this scale, the susceptibility record closely parallels the oxygen-isotope fluctuations in deep-sea sediments, suggesting a close interdependence of the Chinese dust falls, the volume of land-based ice, and global climate.