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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
3891
World Ranking
8405
National Ranking
544

Best Publications

  • Yangtze River of China: historical analysis of discharge variability and sediment flux

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  • Low concentration of heavy metals in the Yangtze estuarine sediments, China: a diluting setting

    Zhongyuan Chen;Yoshiki Saito;Yutaka Kanai;Taoyuan Wei

  • Late Quaternary evolution of the sub-aqueous Yangtze Delta, China: sedimentation, stratigraphy, palynology, and deformation

    Zhongyuan Chen;Baoping Song;Zhanghua Wang;Yongli Cai

  • Three-dimensional evolution of the Yangtze River mouth, China during the Holocene: impacts of sea level, climate and human activity

    Zhanghua Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Yoshiki Saito;Qing Zhan;Xiaomei Nian

  • Early mid-Holocene sea-level change and coastal environmental response on the southern Yangtze delta plain, China: implications for the rise of Neolithic culture

    Zhanghua Wang;Chencheng Zhuang;Yoshiki Saito;Jie Chen

  • Holocene climate fluctuations in the Yangtze delta of eastern China and the Neolithic response

    Zhongyuan Chen;Zhanghua Wang;Jill Schneiderman;Jin Taol

  • The Sr/Ba ratio response to salinity in clastic sediments of the Yangtze River Delta

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  • Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China.

    James B. Innes;Yongqiang Zong;Zhongyuan Chen;Chun Chen

  • Sediment rating parameters and their implications: Yangtze River, China

    Guifang Yang;Zhongyuan Chen;Fengling Yu;Zhanghua Wang

  • Migration patterns of Neolithic settlements on the abandoned Yellow and Yangtze River deltas of China

    Zhongyuan Chen;Yongqiang Zong;Zhanghua Wang;Hui Wang

  • Implications of flow control by the Three Gorges Dam on sediment and channel dynamics of the middle Yangtze (Changjiang) River, China

    Zhongyuan Chen;Zhanghua Wang;Brian Finlayson;Jing Chen

  • Early to mid‐Holocene rapid sea‐level rise and coastal response on the southern Yangtze delta plain, China

    Zhanghua Wang;Qing Zhan;Haiyan Long;Yoshiki Saito

  • Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands

    James B. Innes;Yongqiang Zong;Zhanghua Wang;Zhongyuan Chen

  • Marine sediment records and relative sea level change during late Pleistocene in the Changjiang delta area and adjacent continental shelf

    Baocheng Zhao;Zhanghua Wang;Jing Chen;Zhongyuan Chen

  • Lithological and palynological evidence of late Quaternary depositional environments in the subaqueous Yangtze delta, China

    Zhanghua Wang;Hao Xu;Qing Zhan;Yoshiki Saito

  • Middle Holocene marine flooding and human response in the south Yangtze coastal plain, East China

    Zhanghua Wang;David B. Ryves;Shao Lei;Xiaomei Nian

  • Simulated sediment flux during 1998 big-flood of the Yangtze (Changjiang) River, China

    Kaiqin Xu;Zhongyuan Chen;Yiwen Zhao;Zhanghua Wang

  • Impacts of human activity on the late-Holocene development of the subaqueous Yangtze delta, China, as shown by magnetic properties and sediment accumulation rates

    Zhanghua Wang;Maotian Li;Ruihu Zhang;Chencheng Zhuang

  • Yangtze offshore, China: highly laminated sediments from the transition zone between subaqueous delta and the continental shelf

    Zhanghua Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Kazuaki Hori;Akihisa Kitamura

  • Mid-Holocene coastal hydrology and salinity changes in the east Taihu area of the lower Yangtze wetlands, China

    Yongqiang Zong;James B. Innes;Zhanghua Wang;Zhongyuan Chen

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