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Overview

Hong Chang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has a research focus that spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions within Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Ecology.

The research topics addressed throughout their career include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Hong Chang has coauthored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators. Those most often working alongside them include:

  • Leyi Li (9 joint publications)
  • Xiaoke Qiang (8 joint publications)
  • Yougui Song (7 joint publications)
  • Lianyou Liu (4 joint publications)
  • Weiguo Liu (4 joint publications)

The venues where Hong Chang most frequently publishes are:

  • Minerals (4 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews (2 publications)
  • Tectonics (2 publications)

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Precise analysis of potassium isotopic composition in plant materials by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry," 2023, Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy
  • "Onset of permanent Taklimakan Desert linked to the mid-Pleistocene transition," 2020, Geology
  • "Dust storm susceptibility on different land surface types in arid and semiarid regions of northern China," 2020, Atmospheric Research
  • "Climate-driven formation of fluvial terraces across the Tibetan Plateau since 200 ka: A review," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Accommodation of India-Asia convergence via strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Qilian Shan fold-thrust belt, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau," 2021, Journal of the Geological Society

Best Publications

  • Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

    Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Steven M. Colman;Weijian Zhou;Xiaoqiang Li

  • Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics

    An Zhisheng;An Zhisheng;Steven C. Clemens;Ji Shen;Xiaoke Qiang

  • New eolian red clay sequence on the western Chinese Loess Plateau linked to onset of Asian desertification about 25 Ma ago

    Xiaoke Qiang;Zhisheng An;Yougui Song;Hong Chang

  • Qaidam Basin and northern Tibetan Plateau as dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau and paleoclimatic implications

    Alex Pullen;Paul Kapp;Andrew T. McCallister;Hong Chang

  • Magnetostratigraphy of Cenozoic deposits in the western Qaidam Basin and its implication for the surface uplift of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Hong Chang;Leyi Li;Xiaoke Qiang;Carmala N. Garzione

  • Distribution and composition of loess sediments in the Ili Basin, Central Asia

    Yougui Song;Xiuling Chen;Linbo Qian;Linbo Qian;Chuanxiang Li

  • Late Miocene episodic lakes in the arid Tarim Basin, western China.

    Weiguo Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Jimin Sun

  • A Rb/Sr record of the weathering response to environmental changes in westerly winds across the Tarim Basin in the late Miocene to the early Pleistocene

    Hong Chang;Zhisheng An;Feng Wu;Zhangdong Jin

  • Eocene to late Oligocene history of crustal shortening within the Hoh Xil Basin and implications for the uplift history of the northern Tibetan Plateau

    Lydia M. Staisch;Nathan A. Niemi;Marin K. Clark;Hong Chang

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

    Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Yan Yan;Junsheng Nie;Gaojun Li

  • A Late-Eocene palynological record from the Hoh Xil Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and its implications for stratigraphic age, paleoclimate and paleoelevation

    Yunfa Miao;Fuli Wu;Fuli Wu;Hong Chang;Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang

  • Wet climate during the ‘Little Ice Age’ in the arid Tarim Basin, northwestern China

    Weiguo Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Zhisheng An;Xulong Wang

  • Eolian dust dispersal patterns since the last glacial period in eastern Central Asia: insights from a loess-paleosol sequence in the Ili Basin

    Yue Li;Yue Li;Yougui Song;Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons;Hong Chang

  • Magnetostratigraphic determination of the age of ancient Lake Qinghai, and record of the East Asian monsoon since 4.63 Ma

    Chaofeng Fu;Zhisheng An;Xiaoke Qiang;Jan Bloemendal;Jan Bloemendal

  • Magnetostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence drilled from Lop Nor in the eastern Tarim Basin

    Hong Chang;Zhisheng An;Weiguo Liu;Xiaoke Qiang

  • Accommodation of India–Asia convergence via strike-slip faulting and block rotation in the Qilian Shan fold–thrust belt, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

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  • Mid-Miocene climatic optimum: Clay mineral evidence from the red clay succession, Longzhong Basin, Northern China

    Yougui Song;Yougui Song;Qiansuo Wang;Qiansuo Wang;Zhisheng An;Xiaoke Qiang

  • Onset of permanent Taklimakan Desert linked to the mid-Pleistocene transition

    Weiguo Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Jimin Sun;Chunhui Song

  • Early–middle Miocene topographic growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau: Stable isotope and sedimentation evidence from the southwestern Qaidam basin

    Lin Li;Carmala N. Garzione;Alex Pullen;Alex Pullen;Hong Chang

  • Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and Red Clay

    Junsheng Nie;Wenbin Peng;Katharina Pfaff;Andreas Möller

  • High-resolution record of geomagnetic excursions in the Matuyama chron constrains the ages of the Feiliang and Lanpo Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, North China

    Hong Ao;Zhisheng An;Mark J. Dekkers;Qi Wei

  • Abrupt climatic events recorded by the Ili loess during the last glaciation in Central Asia: Evidence from grain-size and minerals

    Yougui Song;Yougui Song;Mengxiu Zeng;Xiuling Chen;Yue Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yougui Song
Yougui Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weiguo Liu
Weiguo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Youbin Sun
Youbin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaomin Fang
Xiaomin Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mark J. Dekkers
Mark J. Dekkers Utrecht University
Yanjun Cai
Yanjun Cai Xi'an Jiaotong University
Weijian Zhou
Weijian Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carmala N. Garzione
Carmala N. Garzione University of Arizona

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