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Guo Zhengtang
Born (1964-04-08) April 8, 1964 (age 60)
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Professor Guo Zhengtang (Simplified Chinese: 郭正堂, Pinyin: Guō Zhèngtáng; born April 8, 1964[1]) is a Cenozoic geologist from China.[2]

Education and early life

Guo was born in Shuozhou, Shanxi Province in 1964. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology from Peking University in 1983, and earned Ph.D. of soil science from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, France in 1990.[3]

Research and career

Guo's research mainly focuses on the eolian sediments of the Chinese Loess Plateau and ancient climate change. He was the Director-general of the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2002-2006.[4] He was a Vice-President of the INQUA Commission on Paleoclimates.[5] He and his colleagues extended the loess records in China from ~8 Ma to ~22 Ma.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "郭正堂" (in Chinese). 中国科学院院士. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  2. ^ Guo Zhengtang's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ http://sourcedb.igg.cas.cn/cn/zjrck/200907/t20090713_2065546.html
  4. ^ http://www.ieexa.cas.cn/jggk/lrld/
  5. ^ http://www.inqua.tcd.ie Archived June 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Guo, Z. T.; Ruddiman, W. F.; Hao, Q. Z.; Wu, H. B.; Qiao, Y. S.; Zhu, R. X.; Peng, S. Z.; Wei, J. J.; Yuan, B. Y.; Liu, T. S. (2002). "Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China". Nature. 416 (6877): 159–63. doi:10.1038/416159a. PMID 11894089.
  7. ^ Guo, Zhengtang; Petit-Maire, Nicole; Kröpelin, Stefan (2000). "Holocene non-orbital climatic events in present-day arid areas of northern Africa and China". Global and Planetary Change. 26: 97–103. doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00037-0.
  8. ^ Yamei, H. (2000). "Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like Stone Technology of the Bose Basin, South China". Science. 287 (5458): 1622–1626. doi:10.1126/science.287.5458.1622. PMID 10698732.
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