• BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Laboratory of Sedimentology and paleoenvironment change (LSPC) belongs to the paleoenvironment division. The mission of the LSPC is to discover the tempo-spatial variability of dust provenance and East Asian Monsoon by means of investigating sedimentology and geochemistry of eolian dust deposition records on a wide range of time-scales. The goals are to provide geological evidences for the interactions between regional and global climatic changes, and to better predict the future climate change based upon robust understanding of natural climate variability in the past. The emphasis of current research is on tectonic-to-millennial variability and dynamics of the coupled monsoonal-arid environmental systems since the late Cenozoic.

• RESEARCH INTEREST

1.      Asian dust source tracing

2.      East Asian monsoon variation on tectonic-millennial scale

3.      Comparison between ocean and land palaeoclimatic records

• MEMBERS

SUN Youbin (Professor)

LIU Xingxing (Associate Professor)

• INSTRUMENTS

The LSPC is equipped with Mastersizer 2000 particle size analyzer and Minolta CM-700d Spectrophotometer, which can be used to measure the particle size distribution and color reflectance of loess, lake and marine sediment samples. The results are applied to reveal the transport dynamics of eolian dust and to reconstruct the evolutionary processes of sedimentary environment.

                                                  Mastersizer 2000 particle size analyzer                               

     Minolta CM-700d Spectrophotometer

• RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 2013

1.Lianji Liang, Youbin Sun, Christiaan J. Beets, Maarten A. Prins, Feng Wu, Jef Vandenberghe. Impacts of grain size sorting and chemical weathering on the geochemistry of Jingyuan loess in the northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 69 (2013) 177-184.

2. Youbin Sun, Hongyun Chen, Ryuji Tada, Dominik Weiss, Min Lin, Shin Toyoda, Yan Yan, Yuko Isozaki. ESR signal intensity and crystallinity of quartz from Gobi and sandy deserts in East Asia and implication for tracing Asian dust provenance.Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems DOI 10.1002/ggge.20162