Dust activities on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) significantly impact on regional and global environmental change. As a direct record of past dust activity, TP loess has been accumulating since the early Quaternary. However, the processes and factors controlling TP dust accumulation remain poorly constrained. In this study, we present a high-resolution dust accumulation record spanning the last glacial cycle, derived from a newly established independent luminescence chronology of the well-preserved Ganzi loess-paleosol sequence. We further synthesize the spatial and temporal patterns of TP dust and explore the factors influencing its accumulation. Our results reveal that the TP dust accumulation is characterized by prominent glacial-interglacial fluctuations and rapid suborbital-scale variations throughout the last glacial cycle. TP dust activity is sensitive to global climate change, with significant expansion of loess coverage and enhanced dust activity occurring episodically since the late Quaternary. The dust mass accumulation rates reconstructed from TP loess are notably higher than those recorded in TP ice cores, indicating that dust activity in the plateau was more intense than previously recognized. Anthropogenic activities may have exerted a significant influence on TP dust flux since the late Holocene. Our study thus advances the current understanding of dust dynamics in the TP, indicating that dust activity across the region is substantially more intense than previously acknowledged.
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