Monsoonal control on a delayed response of sedimentation to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Fei Zhang; Zhangdong Jin; A. Joshua West; Zhisheng An; Robert G. Hilton; Jin Wang; Gen Li; Alexander L. Densmore; Jimin Yu; Xiaoke Qiang; Youbin Sun; Liangbo Li; Longfei Gou; Yang Xu; Xinwen Xu; Xingxing Liu; Yanhui Pan; Chen-Feng You

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav7110

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Monsoonal control on a delayed response of sedimentation to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Fei Zhang ¹,²,
Zhangdong Jin ¹,²,³,*,
A. Joshua West⁴,
Zhisheng An¹,²,
Robert G. Hilton⁵,
Jin Wang¹,⁵,
Gen Li⁴,
Alexander L. Densmore⁵,
Jimin Yu⁶,⁷,
Xiaoke Qiang¹,²,⁸,
Youbin Sun¹,²,
Liangbo Li¹,⁹,
Longfei Gou¹,
Yang Xu¹,
Xinwen Xu¹⁰,
Xingxing Liu¹,
Yanhui Pan¹¹ and
Chen-Feng You¹²

¹SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.
²CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.
³Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China.
⁴Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
⁵Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
⁶Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
⁷Open Studio for Oceanic-Continental Climate and Environment Changes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China.
⁸School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi′an 710054, China.
⁹Interdisciplinary Research Center of Earth Science Frontier, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
¹⁰Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, Northwest University, Xi′an 710127, China.
¹¹MOE Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environment Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
¹²EDSRC, Taiwan Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: zhdjin{at}ieecas.cn

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Science Advances 12 Jun 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 6, eaav7110
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav7110

Fei Zhang

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Zhangdong Jin

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.

Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China.

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A. Joshua West

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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Zhisheng An

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Robert G. Hilton

Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

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Jin Wang

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

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Gen Li

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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Alexander L. Densmore

Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

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Jimin Yu

Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.

Open Studio for Oceanic-Continental Climate and Environment Changes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China.

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Xiaoke Qiang

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi′an 710054, China.

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Youbin Sun

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Liangbo Li

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

Interdisciplinary Research Center of Earth Science Frontier, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

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Longfei Gou

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Yang Xu

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Xinwen Xu

Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, Northwest University, Xi′an 710127, China.

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Xingxing Liu

SKLLQG, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China.

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Yanhui Pan

MOE Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environment Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Chen-Feng You

EDSRC, Taiwan Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.

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