Supported by the "973" Project (Grant No. 2005CB422001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40471016 and 40401007);the Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education, China (Grant No. 20030730017).
The selection of high-resolution loess sections is needed in order to determine the climatic variability of the East Asian Monsoon during the last interglacial. Two sequences of S1 on the eastern and west-ern sides of...