Main Publication (* for corresponding author)

Zhang, Hanzhi, Lu, Huayu*, He, Jing, Xie, Wanting, Wang, Hanlin, Zhang, Hongyan, Breecker, Daniel, Bird, Anna, Stevens, Thomas, Nie, Junsheng, Li, Gaojun. Large-number detrital zircon U-Pb ages reveal global cooling caused the formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau during Late Miocene. Science advances, 8, eabq2007

lZhang, Hanzhi*, Chen, Zeyu, Lyu, Fan, Cai, Dongxu, Lyu, Hengzhi, Wang, Xianyan, Cheng, Feng, Zhou, Yali, Lu, Huayu (2025). Evolution of the North Qinling Mountains since the Eocene: evidence from provenance analysis of the Cenozoic sediments of the Weihe Basin. GSA Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B38094.1.

lZhang, Hanzhi*, Lu, Huayu, Chen, Zeyu, Lai, Wen, Lyu, Hengzhi, Zhou, Yali, Lyu, Fan, Li, Shilei, Chen, Jun (2025). Cenozoic global temperature and regional humidity changes jointly drove the silicate weathering evolution: a record from the Weihe Basin in Central China. Global and Planetary Change, 250: 104805

lZhang, Hanzhi*, Chen, Yang, Wu, Mengying, Lu, Huayu, Gu, Yao, Wu, Jiang (2025). Spatial provenance distributions in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implication for reconstruction of desert margin. Geomorphology, 475, 109663. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109663.

lChen, Zeyu, Zhang, Hanzhi*, Lu, Huayu, Lyu, Fan, Lyu, Hengzhi, Gao, Ruixue, Chen, Yang, and Wu, Mengying. 2025. Evolution of the proto-Weihe River system during the Eocene–Oligocene: Evidence from sediment provenance of the Weihe Basin. Geomorphology, 473, 109616. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109616.

lZhang, Hanzhi*, Lu, Huayu, Zhou, Yali, Cui, Yingying, He, Jing, Lv, Hengzhi, Wang, Kexin, Wang, Xianyan. 2020. Heavy mineral assemblages and UPb detrital zircon geochronology of sediments from the Weihe and Sanmen Basins: New insights into the Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of the Yellow River. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110072.

lXie, Wanting, Wang, Xxianyan*, Zhang, Hanzhi*, Liu, Quanyu, Wang, Shejiang, Lu, Huayu. 2021. Drainage evolution in intermontane basins at the Qinling-Daba Mountains. Science China Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/S11430-020-9820-y

lZhang, Hanzhi, Huayu Lu*, Thomas Stevens, Han Feng, Yu Fu, Junyan Geng and Hanlin Wang. 2018. Expansion of Dust Provenance and Aridification of Asia Since ~7.2 Ma Revealed by Detrital Zircon U-Pb Dating. Geophysical Research Letters 45(24):13, 413-437, 448.

lZhang, Hanzhi, Lu, Huayu*, Xu, Xisheng, Liu, Xiaoming, Yang, Tao, Stevens, Thomas, Bird, Anna, Xu, Zhiwei, Zhang, Tian, Lei, Fang, Feng, Han, Quantitative estimation of the contribution of dust sources to Chinese loess using detrital zircon U-Pb age patterns, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2016, 121(11): 2085-2099.

lWu, Mengying, Zhang, Hanzhi*, Lu, Huayu, Yu, Jian, Chen, Yang, Chen, Chen, Wang, Jingjing. (2026). The late Pliocene spatial distributions of proto-Mu Us sand fields margin indicated from the spatial grain size variation of aeolian sediments in the Chinese loess Plateau. Quaternary International, 758: 110125.

lZhang, Hanzhi*, Lu, Huayu, Zhou, Yali, Cui, Yingying, Zhang, Jin, Lv, Fan, Chen, Zeyu. 2022. Quantitative analysis of the clastic mineral composition in sediments from the Weihe River Basin by Scanning Electron Microscope and its implication for provenance. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica (in Chinese with English abstract), https://doi.org/10.14027/j.issn.1000⁃0550.2022.021.

lZhang, H., Lu, H.*, Yi, S., Xu, Z., Zhou, Y., Tan, H. 2013: Zircon typological analyses of the major deserts/ sand fields in Northern China and its implication for identifying sediment source. Quaternary Sciences (in Chinese with English abstract) 33(2), 334-344

lLu, Huayu*, Zhang, Hanzhi, Feng, Han, Wang, Yichao, Cai, Dongxu, Li, Guangwei, Lyu, Hengzhi, Lei, Fang, Wang, Kexin, Wang, Sumin, Lai, Wen, Wang, Xianyan. Landform evolution in Asia during the Cenozoic revealed by formation of drainages of Wei River and Indus River[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2023: 111516.

lLu, Huayu*, Feng, Han, Lyu, Hengzhi, Wang, Hanlin, Zhang, Xiaojian, Zhang, Hanzhi, Wang, Xianyan, Li, Yongxiang. Formation and evolution of the Asian landscape during the Cenozoic [J]. The Innovation Geoscience. 2023: 100020.

lFeng, Han, Lu, Huayu*, Carrapa, Barbara, Zhang, Hanzhi, Chen, Jun, Wang, Ying, and Clift, Peter D. 2021. Erosion of the Himalaya-Karakoram recorded by Indus Fan deposits since the Oligocene. Geology 49, 1126-1131.

lWang, Yichao, Lu, Huayu*, Wang, Kexin, Wang, Yao, Li, Yongxiang, Clemens, Steven, Lv, Hengzhi, Huang, Zihan, Wang, Hanlin, Hu, Xuzhi, Lu, Fuzhi, Zhang, Hanzhi. 2020. Combined high- and low-latitude forcing of East Asian monsoon precipitation variability in the Pliocene warm period, Science Advances, Vol. 6 No. 46.

lLyu, Fan, Lu, Huayu*, Zhang, Hanzhi, Lai, Wen, Shao, Kehan, Gao, Xin. 2024. Deposition-filling process and provenance of Lushi Basin, East Qinling Mountains (Central China) during the middle Eocene and the forcing mechanism, Quaternary Sciences (in Chinese with English abstract) 44(2), 265-281

lHu, Shaolei, Lu, Huayu*, Li, Xiaoqiang, Feng, Han, Zhang, Hanzhi, Lyu, Hengzhi. 2024. Provenance of the Eocene and Oligocene sediments in the Weihe Basin (Central China): evidence from strontium and neodymium isotopic composition of silicate from a drill core, Quaternary Sciences (in Chinese with English abstract) 44(2), 295-308

lChen, Yingying, Li, Yiquan*, Wang, Xianyan, Zhang, Rongqing, Lai, Wen, Zhang, Hanzhi, Lyu, Hengzhi and Lu, Huayu (2024), Drainage divide migration between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers at Eastern Qinling Mountains (central China): Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital rutile. Geomorphology, 109483.

lHe Jing, Lu Huayu, Zhang Hanzhi, Wu Jiang, Shao Kehan. Zircon U-Pb Age Spectrum of Zhengzhou Loess: Provenance change of loess in the Late Quaternary[J]. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2025, 43(2): 527-538. doi: 10.14027/j.issn.1000-0550.2023.024

lZhang Danfeng, Wang Xianyan, Zhang Hanzhi, Liu Quanyu, Wang Shejiang, Lu Huayu. Drainage connection and terrace formation promoted early hominin occupation in the upper Hanjiang River during the Early-Middle Pleistocene. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2023, 78(5): 1213-1232 doi:10.11821/dlxb202305010

lBohm, K., Kaakinen, A., Stevens, T., Lahaye, Y., O'Brien, H., Tang, H., Shang, Y., Zhang, H., and Lu, H. 2023. Neogene global climate change and East Asian dust sources: Combined rutile geochemistry and zircon U-Pb analysis from the northern Chinese Loess Plateau. Global and Planetary Change 221, 104049.

lWang, Y., Lu, H., Lyu, H., Cai, D., Qiang, X., Li, Y., Wang, X., Lai, W., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, K., Huang, Z., Yu, X., and Hu, S. 2023. East Asian hydroclimate responses to the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Weihe Basin, central China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 111436.

lLyu Hengzhi, Lu Huayu*, Wang Yichao, Zhang Hanzhi, Wang Yai, Wang Kexin, Lai Wen, Liu Zhifei, Li Yanli, Ji Junfeng. 2021. East Asian paleoclimate change in the Weihe Basin (central China) since the middle Eocene revealed by clay mineral analysis. Science China Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9799-6.

lZhang, Haobo, Nie, Junsheng*, Liu, Xiangjun†, Pullen, Alex, Li, Guoqiang, Peng, Wenbin, Zhang, Hanzhi. 2021, Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geology, 49, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48867.1

lBaykal, Yunus*, Stevens, Thomas, Engström-Johansson, Alexandra, Skurzyński, Jacek, Zhang, Hanzhi, He, Jing, Lu, Huayu, Adamiec, Grzegorz, Költringer, Chiara, Jary, Zdzisław. 2021, Detrital zircon U–Pb age analysis of last glacial loess sources and proglacial sediment dynamics in the Northern European Plain. Quaternary science reviews, 274, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107265

lLu, Huayu*, Ruixuan Liu, Linhai Cheng, Han Feng, Hanzhi Zhang, Yao Wang, Rong Hu, Wancang Zhao, Junfeng Ji, Zhaokai Xu, Zhaojie Yu, Denise K. Kulhanek, Dhananjai K. Pandey and Peter D. Clift. 2020. “Phased evolution and variation of the South Asian monsoon, and resulting weathering and surface erosion in the Himalaya–Karakoram Mountains, since late Pliocene time using data from Arabian Sea core.” Geological Magazine: 1-15.

lHällberg, Lars Petter, Stevens, Thomas, Almqvist, Bjarne, Snowball, Ian, Wiers, Steffen, Költringer, Chiara, Lu, Huayu, Zhang, Hanzhi, Lin, Zeng. 2020. Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance, Aeolian Research, Vol. 46100615.

lLu, Huayu*, Xianyan Wang, Xiaoyong Wang, Xi Chang, Hanzhi Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Wenchao Zhang, Haizhen Wei, Xiaojian Zhang, Shuangwen Yi, Wenfang Zhang, Han Feng, Yichao Wang, Yao Wang and Zhiyong Han. 2019. Formation and evolution of Gobi Desert in central and eastern Asia. Earth-science Reviews 194:251-263.

lCheng, Feng*, Marc Jolivet, Zhaojie Guo, Huayu Lu, Bo Zhang, Xiangzhong Li, Daowei Zhang, Changhao Zhang, Hanzhi Zhang, Lin Wang, Zhenqiang Wang and Qiquan Zhang. 2019. Jurassic – Early Cenozoic tectonic inversion in the Qilian Shan and Qaidam Basin, North Tibet: new insight from seismic reflection, isopach mapping and drill core data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 12,077–12,098. https://doi. org/10.1029/2019JB018086

lCheng, Feng*, Carmala N. Garzione, Gautam Mitra, Marc Jolivet, Zhaojie Guo, Huayu Lu, Xiangzhong Li, Bo Zhang, Changhao Zhang, Hanzhi Zhang and Lin Wang. 2019. The interplay between climate and tectonics during the upward and outward growth of the Qilian Shan orogenic wedge, northern Tibetan Plateau. Earth-science Reviews 198:102945.

lWang, Xiaoyong*, Huayu Lu, Hanzhi Zhang, Jiang Wu, Xiaoxue Hou, Yu Fu and Junyan Geng. 2018. “Distribution, provenance, and onset of the Xiashu Loess in Southeast China with paleoclimatic implications.”Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 155:180-187.

lYang, Yang, Joseph A. Mason, Hanzhi Zhang, Huayu Lu, Junfeng Ji, Jun Chen and Lianwen Liu*. 2017. Provenance of loess in the central Great Plains, U.S.A. based on Nd-Sr isotopic composition, and paleoenvironmental implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 173:114-123.

lLin Zeng, Huayu Lu*, Shuangwen Yi, Thomas Stevens, Zhiwei Xu, Haixing Zhuo, Kaifeng Yu, Hanzhi Zhang, 2017. Long-term Pleistocene aridification and possible linkage to high-latitude forcing: New evidence from grain size and magnetic susceptibility proxies from loess-paleosol record in Northeastern China, CATENA, 2017, 154: 21-32

lFenn, Kaja*, Thomas Stevens, Anna Bird, Mara Limonta, Martin Rittner, Pieter Vermeesch, Sergio Andò, Eduardo Garzanti, Huayu Lu, Hanzhi Zhang and Zeng Lin. 2017. “Insights into the provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau from joint zircon U-Pb and garnet geochemical analysis of last glacial loess.”Quaternary Research: 1-15.

lAnna Bird*, Thomas Stevens, Martin Rittner, Pieter Vermeesch, Andrew Carter, Sergio Andò, Eduardo Garzanti, Huayu Lu, Junsheng Nie, Lin Zeng, Hanzhi Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2015, 435: 254-264.