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Dust pathways of the Songnen Plain, Northeast China in the last glacial period and their implications for ecological security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2025

Yan Jiao ,
Yuanyun Xie ,
Yunping Chi ,
Lei Sun ,
Peng Wu ,
Zhenyu Wei ,
Haijin Liu ,
Yehui Wang  and
Ruonan Liu
Yan Jiao
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Yuanyun Xie*
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Geographical Environment Monitoring and Spatial Information Service in Cold Regions, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Yunping Chi*
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Geographical Environment Monitoring and Spatial Information Service in Cold Regions, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Lei Sun
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China Heilongjiang Province Key Laboratory of Geographical Environment Monitoring and Spatial Information Service in Cold Regions, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Peng Wu
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Zhenyu Wei
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Haijin Liu
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Yehui Wang
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
Ruonan Liu
Affiliation:
College of Geographic Science, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
*
Corresponding authors: Y. Xie; Email: [email protected]; Y. Chi; Email: [email protected]
Corresponding authors: Y. Xie; Email: [email protected]; Y. Chi; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Loess, a geologic record of dust, is an optimal archive for exploring paleoclimate and the paleo-dust path from source to sink. The dust path for the Songnen Plain, NE China, during the last glacial period has not been established. To address this, 63 surface sediment samples from the Northeast China Sandy Lands, i.e., Onqin Daga Sandy Land (OD), Horqin Sandy Land (HQ), Hulun Buir Sandy Land (HL), and Songnen Sandy Land (SN), and six samples from the last glacial loess in the Harbin area were collected for elemental geochemical analysis of the <10 μm fraction to quantitatively reconstruct the dust pathway using a frequentist model. The results show that these sandy lands have a distinct geochemical composition due to a control from markedly different provenances. The quantitative results indicate that the dust contribution of the southwestern SN to the Harbin loess is as high as 50.4–77.2%, followed by the OD and HQ (3.3–34.8%), the northwestern SN (0–36.8%), and the HL (0–8%). Notably, the dust contribution to the Harbin loess began to change considerably after ~46–41 ka BP, with a significant increase from 1.1% to 41.2% from the northwestern direction. Some ecological safety strategies are proposed to address dust pollution in the Harbin area.

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Northeast Sandy LandsSongnen PlainHarbin loessdust pathsource fingerprintinggeochemical analysis
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Quaternary Research , First View , pp. 1 - 12
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