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2. Yuebao Zhang, Donghuai Sun*, Zaijun Li, Fei Wang, Xin Wang, Baofeng Li, Feng Guo, Sheng Wu, 2014. Cenozoic record of aeolian sediment accumulation and aridification from Lanzhou, China, driven by Tibetan Plateau uplift and global climate. Global and Planetary Change, 120, 1-15.
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4. Sun donghuai*, Su Ruixia, Li Zaijun, Lu Huayu, 2011. The ultrafine component in Chinese loess and its variation over the past 7.6 Ma: implications for the history of pedogenesis. Sedimentology, 58(4), 916-935.
5. Sun donghuai*, Zhang Yuebao, Han Fei, Zhang Yan, Yi Zhiyu, Li Zaijun, Wang Fei, Wu Sheng, Li Baofeng, 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 76(3-4), 106-116.
6. Sun donghuai*, Bloemendal Jan, Yi Zhiyu, Zhu Yanhu, Wang Xin, Zhang Yuebao, Li Zaijun, Wang Fei, Han Fei, Zhang Yan, 2011. Palaeomagnetic and palaeoenvironmental study of two parallel sections of late Cenozoic strata in the central Taklimakan Desert: Implications for the desertification of the Tarim Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 300(1-4), 1-10.
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8. Wang Xin, Sun Donghuai*, Chen Fahu, Wang Fei, Li Baofeng, Sergej V. Popov, Wu Sheng, Zhang Yuebao, Li Zaijun, 2014. Cenozoic paleo-environmental evolution of the Pamir-Tien Shan convergence zone. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 80, 84-100.