Clumped and stable isotopes of land snail shells on the Chinese Loess Plateau and their climatic implications

We report stable (δ13Cshell, δ18Oshell) and clumped isotope (Δ47) compositions of modern and last glacial fossil snail shell carbonates from the Luochuan and Weinan sections on the central and southern Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Our study reveals that the average Δ47 temperature (T47) of modern snails is consistent with monitored temperatures during the snail growing season at the studied locations and is ~10 °C higher than that of fossil...