supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(2019QZKK0704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42030505 and 41672157);the State Scholarship Fund organized by the China Scholarship Council(CSC)in 2018,the Royal Society(IE 141128);the U.S.National Science Foundation(1348005,1348075,and 1545859)。
East Asian summer monsoon(EASM)precipitation affects the lives of billions of people and impacts the stability of fragile desert ecosystems in central Asia[1].Therefore,many studies have focused on understanding the v...
supportedby the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41172176 and41121062)
The Himalayan orogen characterized by very high variability in tectonic and climatic processes,and is thus regarded as a natural laboratory for investigating the coupling of tectonics and climate,as well as the influe...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB950102 and 2009CB421406);the Strategic and Special Frontier Project of Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA05080803)
One of the key uncertainties in future sea-level projections is attributed to the Greenland ice sheet(GrIS).Studying the response of the GrIS to climate changes during the past warm periods is helpful for understandin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40730104) ;National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB720203)
Major element concentrations were analyzed on the sediments of a 203.6-m core from the North China Plain near Tianjin. The chemical index of alteration (CIA), Al2O3-(CaO+Na2O)-K2O diagram and elemental ratios, such as...
Thiswork was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 49702029 and 49894170); the National Project for Basic Research on Tibetan Plateau (Grant No. G1998040800).
Carbon isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate can be used to estimate the proportion of C4 and C3 plants. Here we present carbon isotopic data of carbonate in a red earth section at Xifeng, central Loess Plateau....
The stone tool discovered at Danangou valley of Dongyaozitou village, Yuxian, is the earliest stone tool, the specimen is powerful evidence about the origin of the human culture and the historical age from the ancient...
Oxyegen and carbon isotopic ratios in the Quatermary-Pliocene,Pleistocene and Eocene Benthonic foraminiferahave been investigated from a single core drilled inthe East
In the summer of 1980, a coordination group found a few fossil vertebrate and mollusc-bearing beds during seismogeological and palaeogeographical investigations at Nihewan of Yangyuan County and Xiyaozhitou of Yuxian ...