HL thanks the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (China) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) for research fellowships. Lei Gao and Yujing Feng are thanked for field investigation and sample preparation. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers and Prof. Xiaoping Yang for their constructive comments. This research was financially supported by the Program of Global Change and Mitigation (grants no. 2016YFA0600502 and 2017YFA0603402) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants no. 41472144 and 41430530).
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS), Nanjing, China; Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Geochronology and Isotope Hydrology, Hannover, Germany; Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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