The fluvio-lacustrine sequences in the Nihewan Basin,northern China provide important terrestrial archives of ...
Ping Liu,Chenglong Deng~*,Shihu Li,Rixiang Zhu State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution,Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China
The fluvio-lacustrine sedimentary sequences in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, are important for studying Quaternary land mammal evolution and Paleolithic settlements in the high-latitude temperate East Asia. Here we report new magnetostrati- graphic results that constrain age of the Hougou Paleolithic site in this basin. Magnetite and hematite were identified as carriers of the characteristic remanent magnetizations, with the former being dominant. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy shows that the Hougou sequence recorded the very late Matuyama reverse chron and the Brunhes normal chron. The age of the Hougou Paleolithic site was estimated to be 395 ka based on an averaged rate of sediment accumulation. The combination of our mag- netostratigraphy and previously published chronological data for early Paleolithic or human sites in the high-latitude northern China may document a persistent colonization of the hostile high-latitude areas of the eastern Old World during the mid- die-early Pleistocene.
Magnetic polarity stratigraphy has proved to be useful in dating of both marine and terrestrial sedimentary se...
Caicai Liu,~(1,2) Chenglong Deng,~1 Qingsong Liu,~1Longting Zheng,~3Wei Wang,~4 Xinming Xu,~5Sheng Huang~(1,2) and Baoyin Yuan~1 1 Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory(SKL-LE),Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China. 2 Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China 3 Anhui Museum,Hefei 230061,China 4 Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,Nanning 530012,China 5 Zhejiang Province Institute of Cultural Relics,Hangzhou 310014,China
