Carmala N Garzione^1,2, Thomas S Weber¹, Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale³, Junsheng Nie⁴, Alex Pullen⁵, Zhisheng An⁶, Jordan Abell⁷, Gisela Winckler⁸, Robert F Anderson⁸, Timothy Herbert⁹, Huayu Lu¹⁰ and Peter H Molnar¹¹, (1)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Lanzhou University, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (5)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, (6)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States, (9)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (10)Nanjing University, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing, China, (11)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States