The
    Horqin desert, intensely influenced by East Asian monsoon, is located in the
    desert-loess boundary belt and agricultural and animal husbandry interlaced
    zone in North China. The geographic setting suggests that the Horqin desert is
    very sensitive to the global climatic change, so it is an ideal zone for
    studying the response of global climatic change. Analysis on magnetic
    susceptibility, grain size and oxides and ratios of chemical elements from TL
    profile during the middle and late Holocene indicates that the regional climate
    is very unstable.  The climatic changes in Horqin desert are very
    coincident with the regional and global climatic change, reflecting the obvious
    consistency between them.