Dataset of the paper entitled “Reactive or buffered? Sedimentary response of the Huanghe alluvial plain to climate changes inferred from source variations of the Xiashu loess since ~1 Ma” by Jiang et al.

Major element, trace element and Nd isotopic compositions of the silt fraction (&lt;63 μm) of samples collected from the Lu’an (LA) loess section (Dataset S1); major element and trace element compositions of the &lt;63 μm and &lt;20 μm fractions of 11 widely-distributed Last Glacial <em>Xiashu</em> loess samples and their locations, and immobile elemental ratios of samples providing signatures of the potential sources including the Huai River and the Huanghe for qualitative and quantitative source discrimination (Dataset S2).