Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Book 16)

This Book Is The First Of Its Kind On Environmental Change Research Devoted To Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution History And Its Mechanism Involved. Capturing The Most Prominent Features Of Asian Climate And Environmental Changes, It Gives A Comprehensive Review Of The Asian Monsoon Records Providing Evidence For Spatial And Temporal Climatic And Environmental Changes Across The Asian Continent Since The Late Cenozoic. The Dynamics Underlying These Changes Are Explored Based On Various Bio-geological Records And In Particular Based On The Evidence Of Loess, Speleothems As Well As On Mammal Fossils. The Asian Monsoon-arid Climate System Which Quantifies The Controlling Mechanisms Of Climate Change And The Way It Operates In Different Time Scales Is Described. Attempts To Differentiate Between Natural Change And Human-induced Effects, Which Will Help Guide Policies And Countermeasures Designed To Support Sustainable Development On The Chinese Loess Plateau And The Arid West. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Chinese Loess And The East Asian Monsoon -- Chapter 3. Asian Monsoon Variability Recorded In Other Archives -- Chapter 4. asian Dust, Eolian Iron And Black Carbon--connections To Climate And Paleoclimate -- Chapter 5. Mammalian Evolution In Asia Linked To Climate Changes -- Chapter 6. Late Cenozoic Climate Change In Monsoon-arid Asia And Global Changes. Edited By Zhisheng An. Introduction / Zhisheng An [and eleven others] Chinese loess and the East Asian monsoon / Zhisheng An [and eight others] Asian monsoon variability recorded in other archives / Yanjun Cai [and fifteen others] Asian dust, eolian iron and black carbon : connections to climate change / Xiaoye Zhang [and four others] Mammalian evolution in Asia linked to climate changes / Yonxiang Li [and five others] Late Cenozoic climate change in monsoon-arid Asia and global changes / Zhisheng An [and fourteen others]. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-22 Chinese Loess and the East Asian Monsoon....Pages 23-143 Asian Monsoon Variability Recorded in Other Archives....Pages 145-337 Asian Dust, Eolian Iron and Black Carbon—Connections to Climate Changes....Pages 339-433 Mammalian Evolution in Asia Linked to Climate Changes....Pages 435-490 Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Monsoon-Arid Asia and Global Changes....Pages 491-581 Back Matter....Pages 583-587