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Palaeo-environmental evolution of Central Asia during the Cenozoic: new insights from the continental sedimentary archive of the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Graz University of Technology, NAWI
Graz Geocenter, Graz, Austria
Oliver Wasser
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Graz University of Technology, NAWI
Graz Geocenter, Graz, Austria
Elshan Abdullayev
Department of Life Sciences, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Department of Geoscience, French-Azerbaijani University (UFAZ), Baku,
Azerbaijan
Stefano Bernasconi
Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Stefan Löhr
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia
Klaus Wemmer
Geoscience Centre (GZG), University of Göttingen, Göttingen,
Germany
Werner E. Piller
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Graz, NAWI Graz Geocenter,
Graz, Austria
Maxim Rudmin
Division of Geology, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
Sylvain Richoz
Department of Geology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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Short summary
We identified the provenance, (post)depositional history, weathering conditions and hydroclimate that formed the detrital and authigenic silicates and soil carbonates of the Valley of Lakes sediments in Central Asia during the Cenozoic (~34 to 21 Ma). Aridification pulses in continental Central Asia coincide with marine glaciation events and are caused by Cenozoic climate forcing and the exhumation of the Tian Shan, Hangay and Altai mountains, which reduced the moisture influx by westerly winds.
We identified the provenance, (post)depositional history, weathering conditions and hydroclimate...
