supported by the NKBRSF Project Fund(2004CB720208);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.40599424 and 40473006);Institutions of Higher Learning Doctorate Foundation(No.20050358006).
A 10.35-m-long sediment core from the Luobei depression in Lop-Nur,Xinjiang,Northwest China,provides detailed information about environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene.The samples taken every 5 cm of the cor...