TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence supporting Holocene loess in Illinois with new proxy data and historical, regional perspectives on loess deposition in the upper Mississippi River Valley
AU - Miao, Xiaodong
AU - Hanson, Paul R.
AU - Stohr, Christopher J.
AU - Wang, Hong
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Joseph A. Mason and Editor in chief Claude Hillaire-Marcel for suggestions to improve the manuscript; Youbin Sun and Hua Wang for their help on the grain size, magnetic susceptibility and color measurements. This work was supported by the Illinois State Geological Survey and NSFC of China (41472159).
Funding Information:
We thank Joseph A. Mason and Editor in chief Claude Hillaire-Marcel for suggestions to improve the manuscript; Youbin Sun and Hua Wang for their help on the grain size, magnetic susceptibility and color measurements. This work was supported by the Illinois State Geological Survey and NSFC of China ( 41472159 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7/15
Y1 - 2019/7/15
N2 - We thank Grimley et al. (2019) for their constructive comments on our publication on Holocene loess in Illinois revealed by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating (Miao et al., 2018) in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Their skepticism on the preservation of Holocene loess in Illinois provides us with a good opportunity to clarify several key issues: pedoturbation (including bioturbation), the methodology of soil research and our OSL dating results. In addition, we will discuss the more fundamental issue behind this debate: what controls loess deposition in the Midwestern USA, direct glacial sediment supply or broader-scale climate change? Finally, we also report new high-resolution grain size, magnetic susceptibility and color data from one of our Holocene loess sites.
AB - We thank Grimley et al. (2019) for their constructive comments on our publication on Holocene loess in Illinois revealed by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating (Miao et al., 2018) in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Their skepticism on the preservation of Holocene loess in Illinois provides us with a good opportunity to clarify several key issues: pedoturbation (including bioturbation), the methodology of soil research and our OSL dating results. In addition, we will discuss the more fundamental issue behind this debate: what controls loess deposition in the Midwestern USA, direct glacial sediment supply or broader-scale climate change? Finally, we also report new high-resolution grain size, magnetic susceptibility and color data from one of our Holocene loess sites.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.017
DO - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.017
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85067511967
SN - 0277-3791
VL - 216
SP - 119
EP - 123
JO - Quaternary Science Reviews
JF - Quaternary Science Reviews
ER -