Loess in India: recorder of the Indian Monsoon system [LION]

印度季风系统影响着数百万人的生活，而它在过去的活动只是部分已知。对于过去的重建，海洋地质档案发挥了主导作用，虽然这些是更间接和平滑，由于从降水区到海洋领域的传输过程。在这里，我们建议调查黄土古土壤序列在克什米尔，北方印度。这些地质档案将用于重建降水的相对波动，并获得更好的洞察过去的印度季风动态。我们将使用岩石磁性方法、量热法和粒度组成作为过去环境的代理数据。时间将由发光测年法确定。这项研究计划提供克什米尔黄土的高分辨率替代数据，但在欧亚黄土研究的背景下失踪。如果成功，计划在该地区开展长期工作。

The Indian Monsoon system influences the lives of many million people, while its activity in the past is only partly known. For past reconstructions, marine geoarchives play a dominant role although these are more indirect and smoothed due to transport processes from precipitation region to the marine realm. Here we propose investigating loess-paleosol sequences in Kashmir, northern India. These geoarchives will be utilized for reconstructing relative fluctuations in precipitation and for obtaining an improved insight into past Indian Monsoon dynamics. We will use rock magnetic methods, calorimetry and grain size composition as proxy data for past environments. The timing will be determined by luminescence dating. This research proposal is planned to provide high-resolution proxy data from Kashmir loess, yet missing in the context of Eurasian loess research. If successful, a longer-term work is planned in the region.