Environmental magnetism: Principles and applications

Q Liu, AP Roberts, JC Larrasoaña… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In environmental magnetism, rock and mineral magnetic techniques are used to investigate
the formation, transportation, deposition, and postdepositional alterations of magnetic …

A 40,000-year record of aridity and dust activity at Lop Nur, Tarim Basin, northwestern China

J Liu, R Wang, Y Zhao, Y Yang - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Taklamakan Desert is a major dust source area for northwestern China. The
history of aridification and sandstorm activity of the desert is recorded in the lacustrine …

Distribution of major elements in Atlantic surface sediments (36 N–49 S): Imprint of terrigenous input and continental weathering

A Govin, U Holzwarth, D Heslop… - Geochemistry …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies use major element concentrations measured on continental margin
sediments to reconstruct terrestrial climate variations. The choice and interpretation of …

Dominant 100,000-year precipitation cyclicity in a late Miocene lake from northeast Tibet

J Nie, C Garzione, Q Su, Q Liu, R Zhang, D Heslop… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation received by northern China over the past
800 thousand years (ky) is characterized by dominant 100-ky periodicity, mainly attributed to …

Grain-size distribution unmixing using the R package EMMAgeo

E Dietze, M Dietze - E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 2019 - egqsj.copernicus.org
The analysis of grain-size distributions has a long tradition in Quaternary Science and
disciplines studying Earth surface and subsurface deposits. The decomposition of multi …

Spectral-spatial hyperspectral unmixing using nonnegative matrix factorization

S Zhang, G Zhang, F Li, C Deng… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remotely sensed hyperspectral images contain several bands (at about adjoining
frequencies) for a similar zone on the surface of the Earth. Hyperspectral unmixing is a …

QGrain: An open-source and easy-to-use software for the comprehensive analysis of grain size distributions

Y Liu, X Liu, Y Sun - Sedimentary Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last hundred years, analyses of grain size have been widely performed, and
numerous powerful tools have been published. The unmixing of grain size distributions is a …

Blind spectral unmixing based on sparse nonnegative matrix factorization

Z Yang, G Zhou, S Xie, S Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely used method for blind spectral unmixing
(SU), which aims at obtaining the endmembers and corresponding fractional abundances …

Lower Rhine historical flood magnitudes of the last 450 years reproduced from grain-size measurements of flood deposits using End Member Modelling

WHJ Toonen, TG Winkels, KM Cohen, MA Prins… - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this research was to unlock the potential of fluvial archives to
create flood chronologies, based on grain-size characteristics of flood deposits located in …

A∼ 12 myr Miocene record of East Asian monsoon variability from the South China Sea

A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, SC Clemens… - Paleoceanography and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term evolution of the East Asian Monsoon and the processes controlling its
variability under changing climate boundary conditions remain enigmatic. Here, we integrate …