supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41772029, 41322013);Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hubei Province of China (No. 2016CFA051);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (Nos. B14031, B08030);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (Nos. CUGCJ1703, CUGQYZX1705);Hydrogeological Environmental Geological Survey of Kashi, Xinjiang (No. S15-2LQ1)。
Paleoclimate changes during the last glacial in the arid central Asia are not as well understood as the monsoon-dominated areas of Asia. Here we report a 75-m-long sediment core over past 120 kyr based on astronomical...