Xinggong Kong

Research interests

Publications

• Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature20787

• The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18591

• Reconciliation of hydroclimate sequences from the Chinese Loess Plateau and low-latitude East Asian Summer Monsoon regions over the past 14,500years

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2015 · 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.013

• Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.006

• A high-resolution stalagmite record of the Holocene East Asian monsoon from Mt Shennongjia, central China

  The Holocene · 2010 · 10.1177/0959683609350393

• The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2010 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.039

• Ice Age Terminations

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1177840

• Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from δ18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil

  Geology · 2009 · 10.1130/g30126a.1

• Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06692

• Millennial‐scale precipitation changes in southern Brazil over the past 90,000 years

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · 10.1029/2007gl031149

• A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations

  Geology · 2006 · 10.1130/g22289.1

• Long-term trend and abrupt events of the Holocene Asian monsoon inferred from a stalagmite δ10O record from Shennongjia in Central China

  Chinese Science Bulletin · 2006 · 10.1007/s11434-005-0882-6

• The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate

  Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106296

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