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Fig. 1.

From: Environmental magnetic record of the fluvial sediments from the Tianzhu borehole in Beijing for the last 800 ka

Fig. 1.

The left map showing the Loess Plateau, Tibetan Plateau, deserts in North China, and location of the Jingbian section mentioned in the discussions (modified from Guo et al., 2002). The arrows show the directions of the summer and winter monsoons. The right figure showing the thickness of the Quaternary isoline in the Beijing Plain (modified from Li, 1994). The sampling locality of Tianzhu is marked in a black pentagon. The Yanshan and Western Hills are the main mountains. Other sites referred to in the text: Yanqing and Zhoukoudian.

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