Neotectonics around the Ordos Block, North China: A review and new insights

W Shi, S Dong, J Hu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The multiphase intensive intra-continental deformation of the Eurasian continent in the
Cenozoic caused by Indo–Asian and Pacific–Asian collisions has been studied extensively …

Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future

X Wang, X Geng, B Liu, D Cai, D Li, F Xiao, B Zhu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the largest ecosystem of China, the desert ecosystem and the desertification-prone
region (DPR) occupies 44% of China's land area. The past, present, and the future of …

Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary

H Ao, EJ Rohling, R Zhang, AP Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary (MPB; 5.3 million years ago, Ma), late
Miocene cooling gave way to the early-to-middle Pliocene Warm Period. This transition …

Source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits since the late Oligocene

Y Sun, Y Yan, J Nie, G Li, Z Shi, X Qiang, H Chang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits have been investigated over the
past two decades using multiple mineralogical and geochemical tracers. These source …

Evolution of the monsoon and dry climate in East Asia during late Cenozoic: a review

HY Lu, ZT Guo - Science China Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Climate in Eastern Asia is composed of monsoon climate in the east, arid and semi-
arid climate in the north and west, and the cold and dry climate of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in …

Quaternary integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

C Deng, Q Hao, Z Guo, R Zhu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Quaternary strata in China mainly comprise continental deposits in a variety of depositional
settings. The continental Quaternary in temperate northern China consists mainly of eolian …

Entrenchment of the Yellow River since the late Miocene under changing tectonics and climate

J Xiong, Y Liu, P Zhang, C Deng, V Picotti, W Wang… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
The distinctive right-angled bend of the Yellow River around the Ordos Block, a large Permo-
Mesozoic continental block in East Asia, has attracted much attention from …

Magnetostratigraphy of the Oligocene and Miocene of the Linxia Basin, northwestern China

L Sun, C Deng, T Deng, Y Kong, B Wu, S Liu… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Cenozoic biochronology framework for northern China has been based on few
vertebrate fossil localities with unverified age constraints. The Linxia Basin, located on the …

Onset of Xiashu loess deposition in southern China by 0.9 Ma and its implications for regional aridification

X Li, Z Han, H Lu, Y Chen, Y Li, X Yuan, Y Zhou… - Science China Earth …, 2018 - Springer
The Xiashu loess is a typical Quaternary eolian deposit in southern China and represents an
important terrestrial paleoclimate archive in this low-latitude monsoon region. However, the …

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South Ningxia region, northeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from new structural investigations and fault kinematic analyses

W Shi, S Dong, Y Liu, J Hu, X Chen, P Chen - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The northeastward growth process of the Tibetan Plateau has been a key issue to be long-
termly debated, which is well documented by the South Ningxia region at the …