@article{f66c0e0646d5444c8aff44496464e2a2,
title = "Late Holocene pathway of Asian Summer Monsoons imprinted in soils and societal implications",
abstract = "The Asian Summer Monsoons (ASM) represent the main source of precipitation in China and East Asia with about one third of the world population and a region of widespread civilizations. Identifying the temporal and spatial patterns (pathways) of these monsoonal events during the Late Holocene to today has been a matter of debate amongst the scientific community. Here we show that the distribution patterns of the cosmogenic isotope 10Be and oceanic 127I in the topsoil across China exhibit imprints of the main ASM pathways. Our results indicate the monsoon pathway pattern persisted for several millennia or more and suggest a strong bond between 10Be and water vapor transport patterns. Our data also reveal a127I distribution pattern controlled by the ASM pathways, rather than proximity to the sea or bedrock weathering. The persistent pathway of the ASM during the late Holocene, together with higher than average global soil iodine concentration, may have further strengthened the development of civilizations in this region of the world through reduction of iodine deficiency related diseases.",
keywords = "Asian Summer Monsoons, Be, I",
author = "Peng Yi and Zhongbo Yu and Peng Chen and Ala Aldahan and Xiaolin Hou and Yukun Fan and Li Chen and G{\"o}ran Possnert and Raimund Muscheler and Weijian Zhou and Edward Sudicky and Frank Schwartz and Murad, {Ahmed Ali}",
note = "Funding Information: PY, ZY and PC gratefully acknowledge the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0402710 ), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51539003 , 41761134090 ), National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (No. 51421006 ) and the program of Dual Innovative Research Team in Jiangsu Province and the Special Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (Grant No. 20145027312 ). PC thanks the support of the China Scholarship Council (CSC, 201706710122 ), XH acknowledge the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2015FY110800 ) and State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology for the financial support. LC acknowledges Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41790431 ). The authors declare no conflict of interests. A. Aldahan thanks the United Arab Emirates University for financial support through UPAR grants and the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University for the 10 Be samples preparation. Funding Information: PY, ZY and PC gratefully acknowledge the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0402710), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51539003, 41761134090), National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (No. 51421006) and the program of Dual Innovative Research Team in Jiangsu Province and the Special Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (Grant No. 20145027312). PC thanks the support of the China Scholarship Council (CSC, 201706710122), XH acknowledge the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2015FY110800) and State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology for the financial support. LC acknowledges Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41790431). The authors declare no conflict of interests. A. Aldahan thanks the United Arab Emirates University for financial support through UPAR grants and the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University for the 10Be samples preparation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.002",
language = "English",
volume = "215",
pages = "35--44",
journal = "Quaternary Science Reviews",
issn = "0277-3791",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}