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Publications.

2024​​

  1. Zhang, R., Xing, L., Yu, S., Nie, J., Wu, J., Wang, Z., Chen, S., Hou, Z., Zhang G., Zhang, D., Holocene overflow events of the lower Yellow River recorded in Huangdun ancient lake, northern Jiangsu Plain, China. Journal of Quaternary Science, China, 2024.

  2. Su, Q., Nie, J., Han, W., Garzione, CN., Gao, P., Obliquity forcing of Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene aridification in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 635: 111951, 2024.

2023​​

  1. Liu, X., Nie, J., Zhou, B., and Zhang, Z., East Asian summer monsoon variations across the Miocene−Pliocene boundary recorded by sediments from the Guide Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2023.

  2. Peng, W., Zhang, H., Pullen, A., Li, M., Pan, B., Xiao, W., and Nie, J., Stepwise increased spatial provenance contrast on the Chinese Loess Plateau over late Miocene-Pleistocene. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1): 60, 2023.

  3. Wan, Z., Zhang, H., Nie, J., Zhao, Y., Miao, Y., Zhang, X., Zhao, X., and Wang, Z., Pollen assemblages and paleoclimate changes from 30 ka B.P. to 5 ka B.P. in Zambezi River basin， southern Africa. Quaternary Sciences, 43(3): 899-910, 2023.

  4. Ji, S., Nie. J., Ma, L., Wen, J., An, Y., Fan, D., and Nie J., Quantify last interglacial soil respired CO2 on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Sciences, 43(2): 336-344, 2023.

  5. Stubbins, B., Leier, A. L., Barbeau Jr, D. L., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Nie, J., Zarate, M. A., and Fidler, M. K., Global climate forcing on late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America. Nature Communications, 14(1): 6899, 2023.

  6. Schwarz, F., Salzmann, U., Cheng, F., Ni, J., Nie, J., Patchett, M. R., Li, X., Li, L., Woodward, J., and Garzione, C., High altitude Pliocene to Pleistocene vegetation and climate change of the Kunlun Pass Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 223: 104078, 2023.

  7. Qiao, Q., Xiao, W., Huang, B., Piper, J. D. A., Sun, J., Nie, J., Wang, D., and Liu, C., Paleomagnetic constraints on neotectonic deformation within the Southern Tian Shan piedmont and implications for the latest Miocene enhanced aridification in the Tarim Basin. Global and Planetary Change, 227: 104164, 2023.

  8. Pan, F., Li, J., Nie, J., Xu, Y., and Yue, L., Provenance of eolian deposits in the Xorkol Basin: Implications for Eocene dust-transport pattern in western China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 135(9-10): 2554-2562, 2023.

  9. Liu, X., Miao, X., Nie, J., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Li, X., Ou, X., and Lai, Z., Distribution and fate of Tibetan Plateau loess. Catena, 225: 107022, 2023.

  10. Li, S., Nie, J., Ren, X., Xing, L., Tong, F., and Xiao, Y., Increased primary mineral dissolution control on a terrestrial silicate lithium isotope record during the middle Miocene Climate Optimum. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 348: 41-53, 2023.

  11. Li, M., Nie, J., Li, Z., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Zhang, H., McMechen, C. A., and Pan, B., A middle Pleistocene to Holocene perspective on sediment sources for the Tengger Desert, China. Catena, 228: 107119, 2023.

  12. Gu, T., Guan, X., Huang, J., Shen, X., Huang, X., Zhang, G., Han, D., Fu, L., and Nie, J., The turning of ecological change in the Yellow River Basin. Hydrological Processes, 37(12): e15055, 2023.

  13. Fu, R. R., Maher, B. A., Nie, J., Gao, P., Berndt, T., Folsom, E., and Cavanaugh, T., Pinpointing the Mechanism of Magnetic Enhancement in Modern Soils Using High-Resolution Magnetic Field Imaging. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 24(3): e2022GC010812, 2023.

2022​​

  1. Guo, B., Nie, J., Stevens, T., Buylaert, J. P., Peng, T., Xiao, W, Pan, B., and Fang, X., Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka. Geology, 50 (12): 1372–1376, 2022.

  2. Guo, B., Nie, J., Li, J., Xiao, W., and Pan, F., Expansion/shrinkage history of the Paratethys Sea during the Eocene: New insights from eolian Red Clay records in the Altyn Mountains, northern China. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 1052627, 2022.

  3. Peng, F., Nie, J., Stevens, T., and Pan, B., Decoupled Chinese Loess Plateau dust deposition and Asian aridification at millennial and tens of millennial timescales. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(20): e2022GL099338, 2022.

  4. Wang, X., Nie, J., Stevens, T., Zhang, H., and Xiao, W, Resolving conflicting models of late Miocene East Asian summer monsoon intensity recorded in Red Clay deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Earth-Science Reviews, 234: 104200, 2022.

  5. Nie, J., Wang, W., Heermance, R., Gao, P., Xing, L., Zhang, X., Zhang, R., Graziano, C., and Xiao, W., Late Miocene Tarim desert wetting linked with eccentricity minimum and East Asian monsoon weakening. Nature Communications, 13: 3977, 2022.

  6. Wang, Z., Nie, J., Peng, W., Zhang, H., and Li, M., Late Pliocene sedimentary provenance of the Yinchuan Basin and its constraints on the formation age of the Upper Yellow River. Acta Sedimentologica Sinca, 40: 924-930, 2022.

  7. Zhang, H., Li, M., Peng, W., Zhang, Z., and Nie, J., No major temporal provenance variation on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the late Miocene-insight from stable heavy mineral ratios. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 1: 100022, 2022.

  8. Wang, H., Gao, P., Yang, R., Nie, J., Cao, B., Zhou, A., Pan, B., Chen, L., and Peng, T., Correlation Between brGDGTs Distribution and Elevation From the Eastern Qilian Shan. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 844026, 2022.

  9. Gao, P., Nie, J., Breecker, D. O., Gallagher, T., Serach, L., and Alonso-Zarza, A. M., Similar magnetic enhancement mechanisms between Chinese loess and alluvial sediments from the Teruel Basin, NE Spain, and paleoclimate implications. Geophysical Research Letters, 49: e2021GL096977, 2022.

  10. Zhang, J., Geng, H., Pan, B., Nie, J., Hu, X., Zhao, Q., Chen, D., and Xie, R., Coupling of tectonic uplift and climate change as influences on drainage evolution: A case study at the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Catena, 216: 106433, 2022.

  11. Wu, F., Fang, X., Yang, Y., Dupont-Nivet, G., Nie, J., Fluteau, F., Zhang, T., and Han, W., Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3: 684–700, 2022.

  12. Wang, X., Hu, G., Saito, Y., Ni, G., Hu, H., Yu, Z., Chen, J., Wang, M., Yuan, X., Wang, L., Hu, Z., Nie, J., and Pan, B., Did the modern Yellow River form at the Mid-Pleistocene transition? Science Bulletin, 67: 1603-1610, 2022.

  13. Cheng, F., Garzione, C., Li, X., Salzmann, U., Schwarz, F., Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J., Nie, J., Li, L., Wang, L., Abbott, B. W., Elliott, B., Liu, W., Upadhyay, D., Arnold, A., and Tripati, A., Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue. Nature Communications, 13: 1329, 2022.

  14. Jiao, X., Dong, Z., Parteli, E. J. R., Brahney, J., Wei, T., Augusto, M., Nie, J., Ren, J., Qin, X., Uranium isotopic composition and constraints on the provenance of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's surface dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127: e2021JF006480, 2022.

  15. Schwarz, F., Salzmann, U., Koutsodendris, A., Nie, J., Friedrich, O., Ni, J., Garzione, C., Fang, X., Wu, F., Woodward, J., Appel, E., and Pross, J., Controls of precipitation and vegetation variability on the NE Tibetan Plateau during the late Pliocene warmth (~3.5-3.0 Ma). Global and Planetary Change, 208: 103707, 2022.

  16. Su, Q., Nie, J., Li, X., and Gao, P., Organic carbon isotopic record and vegetation evolution history in the Qaidam Basin during Miocene-Early Pliocene. Quaternary Sciences, 42(4): 948-957, 2022.

  17. Liu, F., and Nie, J., Reconstruction of Cenozoic phase landscape evolution in Lincang granite belt, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, based on the Pecube Model. Quaternary Sciences, 42(3): 637-649, 2022.

  18. Deng, X., and Nie, J., and Ren, X., Obliquity-driven moisture changes in Qaidam Basin in Late Miocene during low eccentricity period. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology，42(6)：193-199，2022.

  19. Zhang, H., Lu, H., He, J., Xie, W., Wang, H., Zhang, H., Breecker, D., Bird, A., Stevens, T., Nie, J., and Li, G., Large-number detrital zircon U-Pb ages reveal global cooling caused the formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau during Late Miocene. Science Advances, 8(41): 2022.

  20. Tian, Y., Zhuang, G., Nie, J., Xu, Q., Xing, Y., Zuza, A., Saylor, J., Leary, R., and Rohrmann, A., Introduction to the special issue "Tibetan tectonics and its effect on the long-term evolution of climate, vegetation and environment". Terra Nova, 34(4): 265-270, 2022.

  21. Song, Y., Nie, J., Song, C., and Zan, J., Editorial preface to special issue: Cenozoic climatic and environmental changes in Central Asia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 597: 111012, 2022.

  22. Miao, Y., Nie, J., Hu, X., Wan, Z., Zhao, B., Zhao, Y., Yang, J., Ncube, L., van Niekerk, H. J., Zhang, H., and Chen, T., Wildfire history and savanna expansion across southern Africa since the late Miocene, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 603: 111189, 2022.

  23. Baykal, Y., Stevens, T., Bateman, M. D., Pfaff, K., Sechi, D., Banak, A., Suica, S., Zhang, H., and Nie, J., Eurasian Ice Sheet derived meltwater pulses and their role in driving atmospheric dust activity: Late Quaternary loess sources in SE England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 296: 107804, 2022.

  24. Yang, J., Nie, J., Zhang, H., Rasmeni, S. K., Ncube, L., van Niekerk, H. J., Zhao, B., Hu, X., Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic constraints on the provenance of the modern Zambezi River sand sediments, southern Africa. Basin Research, 35(3), 1053–1070, 2023.

2021​​

  1. Liu, C., Nie, J., Li, Z., Qiao, Q., Abell, J. T., Wang, F., and Xiao, W., Eccentricity forcing of East Asian monsoonal systems over the past 3 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(43): e2107055118, 2021.

  2. Su, Q., Riegel, H., Gong. L., Heermance. R, and Nie, J., Detailed processes and potential mechanisms of Pliocene salty lake evolution in the western Qaidam Basin. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9: 736901, 2021.

  3. Gao, P., Nie, J., Yan, Q., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., Cao, B., and Pan, B., Millennial resolution late Miocene northern China precipitation record spanning astronomical analogue interval to the future. Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2021GL093942, 2021.

  4. Zhang, H., Nie, J., Liu, X., Pullen, A., Li, G., Peng, W., and Zhang H., Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geology, 49(10): 1155-1159, 2021.

  5. Yang, J., Nie, J., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., Ando, S., Vermeesch, P., Zhang, H., Hu, X., Wang, Z., Zhao, B., Ncube, L., Stevens, T., Li, M., Li, H., Chen, T., Miao, Y., and Pan, B., Climatic forcing of Plio-Pleistocene formation of the modern Limpopo River, South Africa. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(14): e2021GL093887, 2021.

  6. Luo, Z., Nie, J., Moe, A. E., Heermance, R. V., Garzione, C., Herbert, T. D., Wang, Z., Li, H., Zhang, R., Zhao, X., and Salzmann, U., Joint insolation and ice sheet/CO2 forcing on northern China precipitation during Pliocene warmth. Science Bulletin, 66(4): 319-322, 2021.

  7. Luo, Z., Nie, J., The driving mechanisms for the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. 12(3): 233-242, 2021.

  8. Ji, S., Ma, L., Nie, J., Chen, S., Sun, Y., and Breecker, D. O., Quantifying soil-respired CO2 on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562: 110158, 2021.

  9. Wang, X., Nie, J., and Saylor, J. E., Anti-phase strengthening of the South and East Asian summer monsoons during the early Pliocene driven by Southern Hemisphere ice volume. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(5): e2021PA004211, 2021.

  10. Liu, F., Nie, J., Zheng, D., and Pang, J., The Cenozoic exhumation history and forcing mechanism of SE Tibetan Plateau: A case study of the Lincang granite area. Advances in Earth Science, 36(4): 421-441, 2021.

  11. Fang, X., Yan, M., Zhang, W., Nie, J., Han, W., Wu, F., Song, C., Zhang, T., Zan, J., and Yang, Y., Paleogeography control of Indian monsoon intensification and expansion at 41 Ma. Science Bulletin, 66(22): 2320-2328, 2021.

  12. Zhang, Z., Liu, J., Zhang, H., Zhang, Z., Ha, G., Min, W., Nie, J., and Ren, Z., The chronological and paleoclimatic study of the Late Pleistocene continental shelf sediments, Northern South China Sea: Using core DG as an example. Seismology and Geology, 43(6): 1351-1367, 2021.

2020​

  1. Liu, F., Danišík, M., Zheng, D., Gallagher, K., and Nie, J., Distinguishing tectonic versus climatic forcing on landscape evolution: An example from SE Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133(1-2): 233-242, 2020.

  2. Ren, X., Nie, J., Saylor, J. E., Wang, X., Liu, F., and Horton, B. K., Temperature control on silicate weathering intensity and evolution of the Neogene East Asian summer monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 47: e2020GL088808, 2020.

  3. Fang, X., Dupont-Nivet, G., Wang, C., Song, C., Meng, Q., Zhang, W., Nie, J., Zhang, T., Mao, Z., and Chen, Y., Revised chronology of central Tibet uplift (Lunpola Basin). Science Advances, 6(50): eaba7298, 2020.

  4. Abell, J. T., Rahimi, S. R. Pullen, A., Lebo, Z. J., Zhang, D., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Ridge, S., Nie, J., and Winckler, G., A quantitative model-based assessment of stony desert landscape evolution in the Hami Basin, China: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene dust production in eastern Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, 47: e2020GL090064, 2020.

  5. Abell, J. T., Pullen, A., Lebo, Z. Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Metcalf, A. R., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. J., A wind-albedo-wind feedback driven by landscape evolution. Nature Communications, 11: 96, 2020.

  6. Sun, Y., Yan, Y., Nie, J., Li, G., Shi, Z., Qiang, X., Chang, H., and An, Z., Source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits since the late Oligocene. Earth-Science Reviews, 200: 102963, 2020.

  7. Meng, Q., Song, C., Nie, J., Liu, C., He, P., Liu, F., Li, L., Middle-late Miocene rapid exhumation of the southern Qilian Shan and implications for propagation of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 774: 228279, 2020.

2019

  1. Nie, J., Ren, X., Saylor, J. E., Su, Q., Horton, B. K., Bush, M. A., Chen, W., and Pfaff, K., Magnetic polarity stratigraphy, provenance, and paleoclimate analysis of Cenozoic strata in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (1-2): 310-320, 2019.

  2. Gao, P., Nie, J., Li, M., and Li, P., Confirmation of a Late Miocene Subchron C4n.2n-1r From the Eastern Qaidam Basin in the NE Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124(12): 12354-12365, 2019.

  3. Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Garzanti, E., Nie, J., Peng, W., Ando, S., Hu, X., Pan, B., and Pfaff, K., Evolution of the upper Yellow River as revealed by changes in heavy-mineral and geochemical (REE) signatures of fluvial terraces (Lanzhou, China). Minerals, 9(10): 603, 2019.

  4. Su, Q., Nie, J., Meng, Q., Heermance, R., Gong, L., Luo, Z., Wang, Z., Zhang, R., and Garzione, C., Central Asian drying at 3.3 Ma linked to tropical forcing? Geophysical Research Letters, 46(17-18): 10561-10567, 2019.

  5. Wang, Z., Nie, J., Wang, J., Zhang, H., Peng, W., Garzanti, E., Hu, X., Stevens, T., Pfaff, K., and Pan, B., Testing contrasting models of the formation of the upper Yellow River using heavy-mineral data from the Yinchuan Basin drill cores. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(17-18): 10338-10345, 2019.

  6. Su, Q., Nie, J., Luo, Z., Li, M., Heermance, R., and Garzione, C., Detection of strong precession cycles from the Late Pliocene sedimentary records of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(8): 3901-3912, 2019.

  7. Ren, X., Nie, J., Saylor, J. E., Li, H., Bush, M. A., and Horton, B. K., Provenance control on chemical weathering index of fluvio-lacustrine sediments: Evidence from the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(7): 3216-3224, 2019.

  8. Liu, C., Gao, P., Mao, P., and Nie, J., A review of Cenozoic geomagnetic excursions. Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology, 39(2): 1-12, 2019.

2018

  1. Nie, J., Ruetenik, G., Gallagher, K., Hoke, G., Garzione, C. N., Wang, W., Stockli, D., Hu, X., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Stevens, T., Danišík, M., and Liu, S., Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation. Nature Geoscience, 11: 944-948, 2018.

  2. Luo, Z., Su, Q., Wang, Z., Heermance, R. V., Garzione, C., Li, M., Ren, X., Song, Y., and Nie, J., Orbital forcing of Plio-Pleistocene climate variation in a Qaidam Basin lake based on paleomagnetic and evaporite mineralogic analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 510: 31-39, 2018.

  3. Nie, J., The Plio-Pleistocene 405-kyr climate cycles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 510: 26-30, 2018.

  4. Nie, J., Pullen, A., Garzione, C. N., Peng, W., and Wang, Z., Pre-Quaternary decoupling between Asian aridification and high dust accumulation rates. Science Advances, 4: eaao6977, 2018.

  5. Ji, S., Nie, J., Lechler, A., Huntington, K. W., Heitmann, E. O., and Breecker, D. O., A symmetrical CO2 peak and asymmetrical climate change during the middle Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499: 134-144, 2018.

  6. Peng, W., Nie, J., Wang, Z., Qiang, X., Garzanti, E., Pfaff, K., Song, Y., and Stevens, T., A major change in precipitation gradient on the Chinese Loess Plateau at the Pliocene-Quaternary boundary. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 155: 134-138, 2018.

  7. Heermance, R. V., Pearson, J., Moe, A., Liu, L., Xu, J., Chen, J., Richter, F., Garzione, C. N., Nie, J., and Bogue, S., Erg deposition and development of the ancestral Taklimakan Desert (western China) between 12.2 and 7.0 Ma. Geology, 46(10): 919-922, 2018.

  8. Guo, B., Liu, S., Peng, T., Ma, Z., Feng, Z., Li, M., Li, X., Li, J., Song, C., Zhao, Z., Pan, B., Stockli, D. F., and Nie, J., Late Pliocene establishment of exorheic drainage in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau as evidenced by the Wuquan Formation in the Lanzhou Basin. Geomorphology, 303: 271-283, 2018.

  9. Xu, X., Fang, X., and Nie, J., Tectonic and environmental evolution during 3.75-1.77 Ma in the Guide Basin. Qinghai Province, 54(4): 494-499, 2018.

2017

  1. Nie, J., Garzione, C., Su, Q., Liu, Q., Zhang, R., Heslop, D., Necula, C., Zhang, S., Song, Y., and Luo, Z., Dominant 100,000-year precipitation cyclicity in a Late Miocene lake from northeast Tibet. Science Advances, 3: e1600762, 2017.

  2. Zhang, R., and Nie, J., Goethite concentration variations in the red clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(11): 4179-4185, 2017.

  3. Ji, S., Nie, J., Breecker, D. O., Luo, Z., and Song, Y., Intensified aridity in northern China during the middle Piacenzian warm period. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 147: 222-225, 2017.

  4. Heitmann, E. O., Ji, S., Nie, J., and Breecker, D. O., Orbitally-paced variations of water availability in the SE Asian Monsoon region following the Miocene Climate Transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474: 272-282, 2017.

  5. Zhang, Z., Nie, J., Fang, X., Provenance analysis reveals mountain uplift in the midsection of the Altyn Tagh Fault during the Middle Miocene. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(3): 278, 2017.

2016

  1. Peng, W., Wang, Z., Song, Y., Pfaff, K., Luo, Z., Nie, J., and Chen, W., A comparison of heavy mineral assemblage between the loess and the Red Clay sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Aeolian Research, 21: 87-91, 2016.

  2. Nie, J., Song, Y., and King, J. W., A review of recent advances in Red-Clay environmental magnetism and paleoclimate history on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Frontiers in Earth Science, 4: 27, 2016.

  3. Saylor, J., Casturi, L., Shanahan, T., Nie, J., and Saadeh, C., Tectonic and climate controls on Neogene environmental change in the Zhada Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau. Geology, 44: 919-922, 2016.

  4. Gong, H., Nie, J., Wang, Z., Peng, W., Zhang, R., and Zhang, Y., A comparison of zircon U-Pb age results of the Red Clay sequence on the central Chinese Loess Plateau. Scientific Reports 6: 29642, 2016.

  5. Peng, W., Wang, Z., Song, Y., Pfaff, K., Luo, Z., Nie, J., and Chen, W., A comparison of heavy mineral assemblage between the loess and the Red Clay sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Aeolian Research, 21: 87-91, 2016.

  6. Zhang, R., Necula, C., Heslop, D., and Nie, J., Unmixing hysteresis loops of the late Miocene-early Pleistocene loess-red clay sequence. Scientific Reports, 6: 29515, 2016.

2015

  1. Liu, S., Li, J., Stockli, D. F., Song, C., Nie, J., Peng, T., Wang, X., He, K., Hui, Z., and Zhang, J., Late Tertiary reorganizations of deformation in northeastern Tibet constrained by stratigraphy and provenance data from eastern Longzhong Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(8): 5804-5821, 2015.

  2. Horton, B.K., Anderson, V.J., Caballero, V., Saylor, J.E., Nie, J., Parra, M., and Mora, A., Application of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to surface and subsurface correlations of provenance, paleodrainage, and tectonics of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin of Colombia. Geosphere, 11: 1790-1811, 2015.

  3. Bush, M., Horton, B.K., Saylor, J., and Nie, J., Growth of the Qaidam Basin during Cenozoic exhumation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from depositional patterns and multi-proxy detrital provenance signatures. Lithosphere, 8: 58-82, 2015.

  4. Nie, J., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Stockli, D., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., Bird, A., Ando, S., Vermeesch, P., Saylor, J., Lu, H., Breecker, D., Hu, X., Liu, S., Resentini, A., Vezzoli, G., Peng, W., Carter, A., Ji, S., and B. Pan, Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment. Nature Communications, 6: 851, 2015.

  5. Bird, A., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., and Zeng, L., Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 435: 254-264, 2015.

2014

  1. Peng, W., Nie, J., Song, Y., Liu, S., and Ji, S., A review of recent progress in Chinese Loess and Red-Clay provenance studies using zircon U-Pb dating. Marine Geology Frontiers, 30(2): 1-9, 2014.

  2. Nie, J., Zhang, R., Necula, C., Heslop, D., Liu, Q., Gong, L., and Banerjee, S., Late Miocene-early Pleistocene paleoclimate history of the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed by remanence unmixing. Geophysical Research Letters, 41: 2163-2168, 2014.

  3. Nie, J., Stevens, T., Song, Y., King, J. W., Zhang, R., Ji, S., Gong, L., and Cares, D., Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification. Scientific Reports, 4: 547, 2014.

  4. Nie, J., Peng, W., Möller, A., Song, Y., Stockli, D. F., Stevens, T., Horton, B. K., Liu, S., Bird, A., Oalmann, J., Gong, H., and Fang, X., Provenance of the upper Miocene-Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 407: 35-47, 2014.

  5. Nie, J., and Peng, W., Automated SEM-EDS heavy mineral analysis reveals no provenance shift between glacial loess and interglacial paleosol on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Aeolian Research, 13: 71-75, 2014.

  6. Li, Y., Song, Y., Nie, J., and Sun, B., Tracing the provenance of Loess and Red Clay on the Chinese Loess Plateau using the U-Pb dating and single-size zircon size. Geological Review, 60(2): 380-388, 2014.

2013

  1. Saylor, J. E., Knowles, J. N., Horton, B. K., Nie, J. and Mora, A., Mixing of source populations recorded in detrital zircon U-Pb age spectra of modern river sands. The Journal of Geology, 121(1): 17-33, 2013.

  2. Nie, J., Song, Y., King, J. W., Zhang, R., and Fang, X., Six million years of magnetic grain-size records reveal that temperature and precipitation were decoupled on the Chinese Loess Plateau during ~4.5-2.6 Ma. Quaternary Research, 79(3): 465-470, 2013.

  3. Nie, J., Peng, W., Pfaff, K., Möller, A., Garzanti, E., Andò, S., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Chang, H., Song, Y., Liu, S., and Ji, S., Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and Red Clay. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 381-382: 110-118, 2013.

  4. Nie, J., Jackson, M., King, J., and Fang, X., Characterizing the superparamagnetic grain distribution of Chinese red-clay sequences by thermal fluctuation tomography. Global and Planetary Change, 110: 364-367, 2013.

  5. Ji, S., Peng, T., Nie, J., and Peng, W., Quantitative paleotemperature reconstructions of the Chinese Loess Plateau: A review. Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology, 33: 151-158,  2013.

2012

  1. Saylor, J. E., Stockli, D. F., Horton, B. K., Nie, J., and Mora, A., Discriminating rapid exhumation from syndepositional volcanism using detrital zircon double dating: Implications for the tectonic history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124(5-6): 762-779, 2012.

  2. Nie, J., Horton, B. K., Saylor, J. E., Mora, A., Mange, M., Garzione, C. N., Basu, A., Moreno, C. J., Caballero, V., and Parra, M., Integrated provenance analysis of a convergent retroarc foreland system: U-Pb ages, heavy minerals, Nd isotopes, and sandstone compositions of the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, northern Andes, Colombia. Earth Science Reviews, 110(1-4): 111-126, 2012.

  3. Nie, J., Zan, J., and Song, Y., Recent advances in red clay environmental magnetism on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Sciences, 32: 576-587, 2012.

  4. Gao, L., Nie, J., Clemens, S., Liu, W., Sun, J., Zech, R., and Huang, Y., The importance of solar insolation on the temperature variations for the past 110 kyr on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 317: 128-133, 2012.

2011

  1. Saylor, J. E., Horton, B. K., Nie, J., Corredor, J., and Mora, A., Evaluating foreland basin partitioning in the northern Andes using Cenozoic fill of the Floresta basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Basin Research, 23(4): 377-402, 2011.

  2. Nie, J., Coupled 100-kyr cycles between 3 and 1 Ma in terrestrial and marine paleoclimatic records. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12: Q10Z32, 2011.

  3. Zan, J., Fang, X., Nie, J., Yang, S., Song, C., and Dai, S., Magnetic properties of surface soils across the southern Tarim Basin. Chinese Science Bulletin, 56: 290-296, 2010.

2010

  1. Zan, J., Fang, X., Yang, S., Nie, J., and Li, X., A rock magnetic study of loess from the West Kunlun Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115: B10101, 2010.

  2. Wang, Y., Nie, J., T. Zhang, G. Sun, X. Yang, Y. Liu, and X. Liu, Cenozoic tectonic evolution in the western Qaidam Basin inferred from subsurface data. Geosciences Journal, 14(4): 335-344, 2010.

  3. Song, Y., Shi, Z., Fang, X., Nie, J., Naoto, I., Qiang, X. and Wang, X., Loess magnetic properties in the Ili Basin and their correlation with the Chinese Loess Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences, 53(3): 419-431, 2010.

  4. Nie, J., Song, Y., King, J. W., Fang, X., and Heil, C., HIRM variations in the Chinese red-clay sequence: Insights into pedogenesis in the dust source area. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 38: 96-104, 2010.

  5. Nie, J., Song, Y., King, J. W., and Egli, R., Consistent grain size distribution of pedogenic maghemite of surface soils and Miocene loessic soils on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25: 261-266, 2010.

  6. Nie, J., Horton, B. K., Mora, A., Saylor, J. E., Housh, T. B., Rubiano, J., and Naranjo, J., Tracking exhumation of Andean ranges bounding the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia. Geology, 38: 451-454, 2010.

  7. Horton, B. K., Saylor, J. E., Nie, J., Mora, A., Parra, M., Reyes-Harker, A., and Stockli, D. F., Linking sedimentation in the northern Andes to basement configuration, Mesozoic extension, and Cenozoic shortening: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122(9-10): 1423-1442, 2010.

  8. Horton, B. K., Parra, M., Saylor, J. E., Nie, J., Mora, A., Torres, V., Stockli, D. F. and Strecker, M. R., Resolving uplift of the northern Andes using detrital zircon age signatures. GSA Today, 20(7): 4-10, 2010.

  9. Bai, Y., Fang, X., Nie, J., Meng, Q., and Chi, Y., Methoxy n-fatty acids in surface soils from the Gongga and Kunlun Mountains: Ecological implications. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(21): 2258-2267, 2010.

2009

  1. Saylor, J. E., Mora, A., Horton, B. K., and Nie, J., Controls on the isotopic composition of surface water and precipitation in the Northern Andes, Colombian Eastern Cordillera. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(23): 6999-7018, 2009.

  2. Bai, Y., Fang, X., Nie, J., Wang, Y., and Wu, F., A preliminary reconstruction of the paleoecological and paleoclimatic history of the Chinese Loess Plateau from the application of biomarkers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271(1-2): 161-169, 2009.

2008

  1. Nie, J., King, J. W., and Fang, X., Tibetan uplift intensified the 400 k.y. signal in paleoclimate records at 4 Ma. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120(9-10): 1338-1344, 2008.

  2. Nie, J., King, J. W., Liu, Z., Clemens, S., Prell, W., and Fang, X., Surface-water freshening: A cause for the onset of North Pacific stratification from 2.75 Ma onward? Global and Planetary Change, 64(1-2): 49-52, 2008.

  3. Nie, J., King, J. W., Jackson, M., Fang, X., and Song, Y., AC magnetic susceptibility studies of the Chinese red-clay sediments between 4.8-4.1 Ma and their paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113: B10106, 2008.

  4. Nie, J., King, J. W., and Fang, X., Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene 100-ka problem. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(21): L21606, 2008.

  5. Nie, J., King, J. W., and Fang, X., The correlation between the magnetic susceptibility record of the Chinese aeolian sequences and the marine benthic oxygen isotope record. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9: Q12026, 2008.

  6. Nie, J., King, J. W., and Fang, X., Link between benthic oxygen isotopes and magnetic susceptibility in the red-clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 35: L03703, 2008.

2007

  1. Nie, J., King, J. W., and Fang, X., Enhancement mechanisms of magnetic susceptibility in the Chinese Red-Clay sequence. Geophysical Research Letters, 34: L19705, 2007.

  2. Nie, J., Mapping pedogenic grain size of the Chinese red-clay sediments using ac magnetic susceptibility and thermal fluctuation tomography. IRM Quarterly, 17: 2, 2007.

2003

  1. Song, C., Fang, X., Li, J., Gao, J., Sun, D., Nie, J., and Yan, M., Sedimentary evolution of the Guide Basin in the Late Cenozoic and the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Geological Review, 49(4): 337-346, 2003.

  2. Song, C., Fang, X., Gao, J., Nie, J., Yan, M., Xu, X., and Sun, D., Magnetostratigraphy of Late Cenozoic fossil mammals in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 48(2): 188-193, 2003.

  3. Nie, J., Song, C., Fang, X., Xu, X., and Sun, D., Paleomagnetic constraint on the Pleistocene appearance of the Yellow River in the Guide Basin of the NE Tibetan Plateau and its geomorphologic implications. Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology, 23: 59-64, 2003.

2002

  1. Fang, X., Song, C., Gao, J., Nie, J., Yan, M., Xu, X., and Sun, D., Magnetic stratigraphy of late Cenozoic mammal fossils from the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 47(23): 1824-1828, 2002.

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