Five million years of meteorological history preserved on an 80-meter-high hill

 
If we can hear, every stone has a story and the whole story can be hidden in a rock. Similarly, in Kazakhstan, a peak has been found at a popular tourist spot with lakes and natural fossils, where the climatic conditions of the past 5 million years can be traced.

The geologist, Charlotte Proud Home, is from the University of Leuven. She says there is an 80-meter-long rocky outcrop in the Charin Valley (Canyon) where there is a 50 million-year record of climate change. Thus it is a very rare place and such traces are rarely found on earth.

There are layers of soil and dust that reveal long-standing climatic secrets on the Eurasian continent. During this period, the land has played an extraordinary role in the climatic fluctuations of land, air and sea. That is, the site is a litmus test that stores information on the flow of freshwater in the Arctic Ocean, and the transfer of humid air to land.

Charlotte has published her research in Communications Earth and Environment. The 80-meter-long piece of land tells the story of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. The Pliocene epoch is between 5 million and 2.6 million years old, and human activities influenced the weather at the same time. That is why with this research we can also know the future of climate change on Earth.

This is the first time that Central Asia has played a significant role in the climate. Earlier, we understood this process from maritime research, and so this area of ​​Kazakhstan has become even more important. Research will go a long way in mapping ancient climatic backgrounds. That is why this research has been appreciated by other experts as well.

There are constant sediments along the Charin Valley, and the chain is nowhere to be found. In the soil here, experts have studied various minerals, elements and isotopes. Ancient magnetic studies and uranium dating have shown the record and age of the collected geological artifacts. It is known that in the last five million years, the land has gradually increased, while in the early period of the Plymouth, the soil had a lot of water. Later, however, westerly westerly winds and Siberia's high-pressure climate system caused many changes.

International experts believe that further research at the site will reveal many secrets of the Earth's meteorological climate.