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Xiaoping Yang is affiliated with the China Earthquake Administration in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Soil Science, Anthropology, and Orthodontics.

The scientist's principal topics of work cover Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Aeolian processes and effects, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Dental materials and restorations, and Remote Sensing and Land Use.

Xiaoping Yang has contributed to a range of recent research papers. Notable publications include:

  • "Revealing the dust transport processes of the 2021 mega dust storm event in northern China" (2021) published in Science Bulletin
  • "Online social networks, media supervision and investment efficiency: An empirical examination of Chinese listed firms" (2020) published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Geochemistry of aeolian sand in the Taklamakan Desert and Horqin Sandy Land, northern China: Implications for weathering, recycling, and provenance" (2021) published in CATENA
  • "Palaeoenvironmental changes in the central part of the Taklamakan Desert, northwestern China since the late Pleistocene" (2021) published in Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • "Sedimentological and geochemical characteristics of sediments and their potential correlations to the processes of desertification along the Keriya River in the Taklamakan Desert, western China" (2020) published in Geomorphology

Frequent collaborators in Xiaoping Yang's work include:

  • Deguo Zhang
  • Liang Peng
  • Bo Chen
  • Frank Lehmkuhl
  • Georg Stauch

The researcher regularly publishes in venues such as CATENA, Quaternary Science Reviews, Acta Petrologica Sinica, Geomorphology, and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Best Publications

  • Basic characteristics of active tectonics of China

    Qidong Deng;Peizhen Zhang;Yongkang Ran;Xiaoping Yang

  • Quaternary environmental changes in the drylands of China – A critical review

    Xiaoping Yang;Louis Scuderi;Philippe Paillou;Ziting Liu

  • Recharge to the Inter-Dune Lakes and Holocene Climatic Changes in the Badain Jaran Desert, Western China

    Xiaoping Yang;Nina Ma;Jufeng Dong;Bingqi Zhu

  • Using multiple archives to understand past and present climate–human–environment interactions: the lake Erhai catchment, Yunnan Province, China

    John Dearing;John Dearing;R. T. Jones;J Shen;X Yang

  • The evolution of dry lands in northern China and in the Republic of Mongolia since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Xiaoping Yang;Karl Tilman Rost;Frank Lehmkuhl;Zhu Zhenda

  • Hydrological and climatic changes in deserts of China since the late Pleistocene

    Xiaoping Yang;Louis A. Scuderi

  • Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner Mongolia, northern China.

    Xiaoping Yang;Louis A. Scuderi;Xulong Wang;Louis J. Scuderi

  • Provenance of aeolian sediment in the Taklamakan Desert of western China, inferred from REE and major-elemental data

    Xiaoping Yang;Bingqi Zhu;Paul D. White

  • The ion chemistry of lakes and late Holocene desiccation in the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China

    Xiaoping Yang;Martin A.J Williams

  • Rare earth elements of aeolian deposits in Northern China and their implications for determining the provenance of dust storms in Beijing

    Xiaoping Yang;Yongsheng Liu;Chaozhu Li;Yuling Song

  • Geochemical and geomorphological evidence for the provenance of aeolian deposits in the Badain Jaran Desert, northwestern China

    Fangen Hu;Xiaoping Yang

  • Evolution of megadunes and lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China during the last 31,000 years

    Xiaoping Yang;Tungsheng Liu;Honglang Xiao

  • Late Quaternary palaeoenvironment change and landscape evolution along the Keriya River, Xinjiang, China: the relationship between high mountain glaciation and landscape evolution in foreland desert regions

    Xiaoping Yang;Zhenda Zhu;D Jaekel;L.A Owen

  • Landscape spatial patterns in the Maowusu (Mu Us) Sandy Land, northern China and their impact factors

    Peng Liang;Xiaoping Yang;Xiaoping Yang

  • Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Taklamakan Desert, western China, inferred from OSL-dated lacustrine and aeolian deposits

    Xiaoping Yang;Frank Preusser;Frank Preusser;Ulrich Radtke

  • Seismic anisotropy beneath the Shumagin Islands segment of the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone

    Xiaoping Yang;Karen M. Fischer;Geoffrey A. Abers

  • Initiation and variation of the dune fields in semi-arid China—with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia

    Xiaoping Yang;Xulong Wang;Ziting Liu;Hongwei Li

  • Large-scale controls on the development of sand seas in northern China

    Xiaoping Yang;Hongwei Li;Arthur Conacher

  • Formation of the highest sand dunes on Earth

    Xiaoping Yang;Louis Scuderi;Tao Liu;Philippe Paillou

  • The INQUA Dunes Atlas chronologic database

    Nicholas Lancaster;Stephen Wolfe;David Thomas;Charlie Bristow

  • Processes and mechanisms of desertification in northern China during the last 30 years, with a special reference to the Hunshandake Sandy Land, eastern Inner Mongolia

    X. Yang;Z. Ding;X. Fan;Z. Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Lancaster
Nicholas Lancaster Desert Research Institute
David S.G. Thomas
David S.G. Thomas University of Oxford
Guoqiang Chu
Guoqiang Chu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven L. Forman
Steven L. Forman Baylor University
Xiwei Xu
Xiwei Xu Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton
Tungsheng Liu
Tungsheng Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ashok K. Singhvi
Ashok K. Singhvi Physical Research Laboratory
Stephen A. Wolfe
Stephen A. Wolfe Geological Survey of Canada
John Boyle
John Boyle University of Liverpool

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