Loess and loess-like soils, when exposed to water, lose their strength characteristics, physical mechanical properties change original structure. The stress-strain state is transformed in these soils wetted. Therefore, the problem of building on loess studying mechanisms subsidence relevant. In this article, we consider determining stress soil stratum under its own weight a limited wetted area....

Abbreviations: C, carbon; N, nitrogen; BD, soil bulk d mass; BGB, belowground biomass; SL, semi-decomposit carbon pool;Np, soil nitrogenpool; SOC, soil organic carbo content; FG, fenced grassland with grazing exclusion; GG index; H, Shannon–Wiener diversity index; E, Evenness in ⁎ Corresponding author at: State Key Laboratory of Soil E the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservati Y...

Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Kar Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-7634 E-mail: [email protected] Institut Néel, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alp France Institut de Physique et Chimie des Mat Université de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, B † Electronic supplementary informa crystallographic and magnetic measurem gures. CCDC 1483884. For ESI and c electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/c6sc03 Cite...

Abstract Chinese loess-paleosol sequences have long been regarded as the continental counterpart of deep-sea sediments in terms their record Quaternary glacial–interglacial cycles. However, absolute chronologies for older than ca. 130 ka on Loess Plateau are scarce. We conducted first high-resolution luminescence dating, extending back to 350 ka, classical Luochuan loess section central Plateau...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Climate of the Past (CP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in CP if available. Abstract Loess sequences have been intensively studied to characterize past glacial climates of the 40–50 • North and South latitude zones. Combining different approaches of sed-imentology, magnetism, geochemistry, geochronology and malacolog...