title: Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment.
abstract: Marine accumulations of terrigenous sediment are widely assumed to accurately record climatic- and tectonic-controlled mountain denudation and play an important role in understanding late Cenozoic mountain uplift and global cooling. Underpinning this is the assumption that the majority of sediment eroded from hinterland orogenic belts is transported to and ultimately stored in marine basins with little lag between erosion and deposition. Here we use a detailed and multi-technique sedimentary provenance dataset from the Yellow River to show that substantial amounts of sediment eroded from Northeast Tibet and carried by the river's upper reach are stored in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the western Mu Us desert. This finding revises our understanding of the origin of the Chinese Loess Plateau and provides a potential solution for mismatches between late Cenozoic terrestrial sedimentation and marine geochemistry records, as well as between global CO2 and erosion records.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geological sciences, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Sergio
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authors.lastname: Andò
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Atmospheric sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
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authors.initials: H
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geological sciences, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Breecker
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofei
authors.initials: X
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authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
authors.forename: Shanpin
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
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authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
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authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
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authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 73000, China.
authors.forename: Baotian
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authors.lastname: Pan