• 责任者：Cui Zhijiu (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences ; Peking University ; Beijing100871 ; China) ; Chen Yixin
• 刊名：Quaternary Sciences
• 出版年：2011
• 卷期：31(5)
• 关键词：第四纪大冰期 ; Quaternary glacial period ; 中国 ; China
• 页码：p.749-764
• 图表：3 illus., 3 tables, 10 6 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• 出版序号：1927
• issnNo：ISSN1001-7410
• isbnNo：CN11-2708/P

///Studies in Quaternary glaciations in China were started in the early 1900s. The studies and debates significantly improved the understanding of the sequences and chronology of Quaternary glaciations and their formation, development and evolution mechanisms. In particular, most studies rejected the long-time argument of  “Quaternary glaciers in Eastern China” and the hypothesis that a “unified ice-sheet on the Tibetan Plateau” had ever existed. Based on relative dating and geomorphic/geological evidence, the onset of Quaternary glaciations in China started from the Shishapangma Glaciation in the late stage of Early Pleistocene. However, no absolute ages are available for this glaciation. Currently, the Wangkun Glaciation (0.7~0.5 Ma) in the Middle Pleistocene dated by ESR and paleo-magnetism is widely accepted as the earliest glaciation in China.