Holocene moisture variations in western arid central Asia inferred from loess records from NE Iran

Qiang Wang1, Haitao Wei1, Farhad Khormali2, Leibin Wang3, Hassan Azarmdel1, Haichao Xie1,4, Xin Wang1, Wei Huang1, Jianhui Chen1 and Fahu Chen1,5, (1)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran, (3)Guangzhou University, School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China