Asian dust plumes that export micronutrients eastward to the Pacific Ocean play a crucial role in regulating marine biogeochemical cycles and productivity. Earlier studies from the Gulf of Alaska (a high-nutrient and low-chlorophyll region) revealed that during the last deglaciation, the dominant nutrient supply was primarily the meltwater from icebergs instead of local dust fluxes off Alaska. However, attention to distal dust coming from Asia was limited, possibly due to resolution constraints. To address this, we consider here two chronologically well-constrained sedimentary archives retrieved from Adak Island (Andrew and Heart Lake), in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. These records preserve a high-resolution environmental and climatic history for the last ~10 ka and may also include a continuous record of Asian dust plume sources. Terrigenous sediments in these archives originate from either local lithology or distal Asian dust, comprising erosion products of the granitoid terrane. We studied the siliciclastic fraction of the sediments and employed trace metal analyses along with radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd and Pb) to trace and quantify the possible allochthonous dust sources of the Holocene. Our preliminary observations from major and trace elemental ratios and statistical analyses suggest that, indeed, there are two dominant sources for terrigenous sediments. The mixing diagram of ∑HREE/∑REE versus ∑LREE/∑REE, together with the presence of a positive Eu anomaly in the REE patterns, further supports the mixed source of the sediment. Additionally, the Chemical Index of Alteration (CIA) and elemental ratios in both the lakes suggest a decreasing trend around 4 ka, followed by an increasing trend around 3.5 ka, which is asynchronous with the increased input of the Asian dust plume and the neoglacial cooling event during this time interval. The isotopic and other geochemical studies are in progress, which will further validate these findings.