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  1. Drainage evolution in accretionary thrust systems as responses to tectono‐climatic variability: Insights from sandbox modelling

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  2. Migrating incision wave and the bottom-up drainage integration of the upper Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau before Pliocene times

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  3. Direct solar radiation distribution and driving mechanisms on planetary surfaces – Moon, Mars, Ceres, and Mercury

    Article • Icarus, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  4. Knickpoint Dynamics During the Outward Growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, February 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  5. Reconciling the Long‐Term Growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau and the Upstream Yellow River Profile

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, February 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  6. Tectonic-triggered drainage reorganizations between the two largest tributaries of the Yangtze River, China

    Article • The Innovation Geoscience, January 2025, Innovation Press Co., Limited

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  7. Drainage divide migration between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers at Eastern Qinling Mountains (central China): Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital rutile

    Article • Geomorphology, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  8. The impacts of climate change, early agriculture and internal fluvial dynamics on paleo-flooding episodes in Central China

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  9. Diverse fluvial aggradation and incision response to interglacial—Glacial transitions in the headwaters of the Yangtze River, SE Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  10. A preliminary integrated analysis of regional paleoclimate variations in China over the past ∼ 21 ka

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  11. Differential terrace configurations in the Upper Yangtze River: Evaluating distinct intensifies of external perturbation and their impact on river behaviors

    Article • Geomorphology, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  12. The Role of Lower Crustal Rheology on Surface Deformation During Oblique Extension: Insights From Sandbox Modeling

    Article • Tectonics, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  13. Application of Detrital Apatite U-Pb Geochronology and Trace Elements for Provenance Analysis, Insights from a Study on the Yarlung River Sand

    Article • Journal of Earth Science, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  14. Dependence of erosion processes on the magnitudes of outburst floods: evidence from 2D hydrodynamic simulations

    Article • July 2024, Authorea, Inc.

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  15. Testing and assessment of high-precision and high-accuracy AMS-radiocarbon measurements at Nanjing University, China

    Article • Radiocarbon, June 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  16. Prolonged Response of River Terrace Flooding to Climate Change

    Article • Quaternary, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  17. A new algorithm for the energy–water balance model to quantitatively reconstruct Holocene precipitation and vegetation: a case study from Dali Lake, North China

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  18. Quantitative assessment of the erosion and deposition effects of landslide-dam outburst flood, Eastern Himalaya

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  19. The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: A case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, March 2024, Geological Society

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  20. Slope unit-based genetic landform mapping on Tibetan plateau- a terrain unit-based framework for large spatial scale landform classification

    Article • CATENA, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  21. Using music and music‐based analysis to model and to classify terrain in geomorphology

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, February 2024, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  22. Reconciling the long-term growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau and the upstream Yellow River profile

    Article • February 2024, Authorea, Inc.

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  23. Past anthropogenic land use change caused a regime shift of the fluvial response to Holocene climate change in the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Article • Earth Surface Dynamics, January 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  24. Diverse Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on Desertification in the Middle Reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River Catchment on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of Earth Science, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  25. Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  26. Landform evolution in Asia during the Cenozoic revealed by formation of drainages of Wei River and Indus River

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  27. Fluvial entrenchment of the Gonghe Basin and integration of the upper Yellow River - Evidence from the cosmogenically dated geomorphic surfaces

    Article • Geomorphology, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  28. Multiple paleolakes caused by glacier river-blocking on the southeastern Tibetan plateau in response to climate changes since the last glacial maximum

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  29. East Asian hydroclimate responses to the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Weihe Basin, central China

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  30. Two-staged uplift of the southeast margin of the Tibetan plateau revealed by river longitudinal profiles

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, March 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  31. The colonization of drylands by early vascular plants: Evidence from Early Devonian fossil soils and in situ plant traces from South China

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  32. Directed Positive Negative Terrain Structure Graph Attention Network for Genetic Landform Recognition

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  33. Formation and evolution of the Asian landscape during the Cenozoic

    Article • The Innovation Geoscience, January 2023, Innovation Press Co., Limited

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  34. Do fault systems impede fluvial incision in active orogens?

    Article • December 2022, Research Square

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  35. Outburst floods strongly influence valley evolution in the Tsangpo Gorge, Eastern Himalaya

    Article • December 2022, Research Square

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  36. Orbital-scale hydroclimate variations in the southern Tibetan Plateau over the past 414,000 years

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang, Cheng Hai

  37. River piracy and its geomorphic effects in the northern Qilian Shan, northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  38. Characteristics of Co-Seismic Surface Rupture of the 2021 Maduo Mw 7.4 Earthquake and Its Tectonic Implications for Northern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  39. A power-law relation of surface roughness and ages of alluvial fans in a hyperarid environment: A case study in the Dead Sea area

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  40. Hydroclimatology and Hydrometeorology of Flooding Over the Eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  41. Chinese loess and the Asian monsoon: What we know and what remains unknown

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  42. Secondary faulting plays a key role in regulating the Cenozoic crustal deformation in the northeastern Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

    Article • Terra Nova, February 2022, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  43. Growth of the Tian Shan Drives Migration of the Conglomerate‐Sandstone Transition in the Southern Junggar Foreland Basin

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  44. Anthropogenic impacts on Holocene fluvial dynamics in the Chinese Loess Plateau, an evaluation based on landscape evolution modeling

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  45. Timing of river capture in major Yangtze River tributaries: Insights from sediment provenance and morphometric indices

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  46. 南秦岭大巴山北缘山间盆地水系演化

    Article • SCIENTIA SINICA Terrae, October 2021, Science China Press., Co. Ltd.

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  47. Late Quaternary terrace formation from knickpoint propagation in the headwaters of the Yellow River, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  48. Late Quaternary aggradation and incision in the headwaters of the Yangtze River, eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, May 2021, Geological Society of America

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  49. Response of Surface Erosion to Crustal Shortening and its Influence on Tectonic Evolution in Fold‐and‐Thrust Belts: Implications From Sandbox Modeling on Tectonic Geomorphology

    Article • Tectonics, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  50. Late Cenozoic Denudation and Topographic Evolution History of the Lhasa River Drainage in Southern Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Inverse Thermal History Modeling

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, April 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  51. Extension of the Upper Yellow River into the Tibet Plateau: Review and New Data

    Article • Quaternary, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  52. The impacts of base level and lithology on fluvial geomorphic evolution at the tectonically active Laohu and Hasi Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  53. Burial Ages Imply Miocene Uplift of Lu Mountain in East China due to Crustal Shortening

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, March 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  54. Responses of fluvial terrace formation to monsoon climate changes in the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from pollen and sedimentary records

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  55. Diverse floodplain deposits of reworked loess in a monsoon climate (Hanzhong Basin, central China)

    Article • Quaternary Research, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  56. Heavy mineral assemblages and U Pb detrital zircon geochronology of sediments from the Weihe and Sanmen Basins: New insights into the Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of the Yellow River

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  57. Dynamic Divide Migration as a Response to Asymmetric Uplift: An Example from the Zhongtiao Shan, North China

    Article • Remote Sensing, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  58. Fluvial or aeolian? Unravelling the origin of the silty clayey sediment cover of terraces in the Hanzhong Basin (Qinling Mountains, central China)

    Article • Geomorphology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  59. Late Cenozoic fluvial history worldwide: A context for the Yellow River record

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  60. The impact of latitude and altitude on the extent of permafrost during the Last Permafrost Maximum (LPM) in North China

    Article • Geomorphology, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  61. Fluvial terrace formation and its impacts on early human settlement in the Hanzhong basin, Qinling Mountains, central China

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  62. Formation and evolution of Gobi Desert in central and eastern Asia

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  63. The extent of permafrost during the Last Permafrost Maximum (LPM) on the Ordos Plateau, north China

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  64. Specific Exogenetic (External) and Endogenetic (Internal) Effects on Fluvial System Evolution

    Article • Quaternary, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  65. The paleoclimatic implication of oxygen isotopes of authigenic carbonates in loess on the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau since Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  66. Episodic Sedimentary Evolution of an Alluvial Fan (Huangshui Catchment, NE Tibetan Plateau)

    Article • Quaternary, September 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  67. Response of dune mobility and pedogenesis to fluctuations in monsoon precipitation and human activity in the Hulunbuir dune field, northeastern China, since the last deglaciation

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  68. Interaction of fluvial and eolian sedimentation processes, and response to climate change since the last glacial in a semiarid environment along the Yellow River

    Article • Quaternary Research, May 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  69. Grain-size characterization of reworked fine-grained aeolian deposits

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  70. 青藏高原东北部黄土次生碳酸盐氧同位素的古气候意义

    Article • Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences, January 2018, Editorial Office of Earth Science

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  71. A modified depositional hypothesis of the Hanjiang Loess in the southern Qinling Mountains, central China

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, October 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  72. Climatic and tectonic controls on the fluvial morphology of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau (China)

    Article • Journal of Geographical Sciences, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  73. Earth surface processes and their effects on human behavior in monsoonal China during the Pleistocene-Holocene epochs

    Article • Journal of Geographical Sciences, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  74. Application of River Longitudinal Profile Morphometrics to Reveal the Uplift of Lushan Mountain

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  75. Comment on ‘Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China): a Discussion’ by Stuart A. Harris, Huijun Jin and Ruixia He in PPP

    Article • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, January 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jef Vandenberghe, Dr Xianyan Wang

  76. Chronology of newly-discovered Paleolithic artifact assemblages in Lantian (Shaanxi province), central China

    Article • Quaternary Research, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  77. Physical Geography

    Article • July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  78. Tectonically-controlled infilling of the eastern Nihewan Basin, North China, since the middle Pleistocene

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  79. Climate-dependent fluvial architecture and processes on a suborbital timescale in areas of rapid tectonic uplift: An example from the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  80. Climate-driven changes to dune activity during the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in the Mu Us dune field, north-central China

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  81. Very Large Cryoturbation Structures of Last Permafrost Maximum Age at the Foot of the Qilian Mountains (NE Tibet Plateau, China)

    Article • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  82. Aeolian process and climatic changes in loess records from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Response to global temperature forcing since 30 ka

    Article • Paleoceanography, June 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  83. Differential tectonic movements in the confluence area of the Huang Shui and Huang He rivers (Yellow River), NE Tibetan Plateau, as inferred from fluvial terrace po...

    Article • Boreas, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jef Vandenberghe, Dr Xianyan Wang

  84. Late Quaternary paleoclimatic and geomorphological evolution at the interface between the Menyuan basin and the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Quaternary Research, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jef Vandenberghe, Dr Xianyan Wang

  85. Palaeoclimatic changes in northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau revealed by magnetostratigraphy and magnetic susceptibility analysis of thick loess deposits

    Article • Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  86. Sedimentary history of the western Bohai coastal plain since the late Pliocene: Implications on tectonic, climatic and sea-level changes

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  87. Late Miocene uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau inferred from basin filling, planation and fluvial terraces in the Huang Shui catchment

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jef Vandenberghe, Dr Xianyan Wang

  88. Differential impact of small-scaled tectonic movements on fluvial morphology and sedimentology (the Huang Shui catchment, NE Tibet Plateau)

    Article • Geomorphology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  89. Composition, origin and weathering process of surface sediment in Kumtagh Desert, Northwest China

    Article • Journal of Geographical Sciences, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  90. Distribution and Forming Model of Fluvial Terrace in the Huangshui Catchment and its Tectonic Indication

    Article • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jef Vandenberghe, Dr Xianyan Wang

  91. Aeolian sediment evidence that global cooling has driven late Cenozoic stepwise aridification in central Asia

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2010, Geological Society

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  92. Magnetic properties of loess deposits on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: palaeoclimatic implications for the Late Pleistocene

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, December 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  93. Origin of the Red Earth sequence on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its implications for regional aridity since the middle Miocene

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  94. Geomorphologic evidence of phased uplift of the northeastern Qing-hai-Tibet Plateau since 14 million years ago

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  95. The Pleistocene vermicular red earth in South China signaling the global climatic change: The molecular fossil record

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, November 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xianyan Wang

  96. Molecular fossils in a Pleistocene river terrace in southern China related to paleoclimate variation

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, June 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Xianyan Wang