Selected publications

Kerry, S., Natawidjaja, D.H., Meltzner, A.J., Shen, C.-C., Suwargadi, B.W., Galetzka, J., Li, K.-S., Cheng, H., and Edwards R.L. 2008. Paleogeodetic Evidence for earthquake supercycles on the Sunda Megathrust, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra. Science, in review.

Shen, C.-C., Li, K.-S., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D., Cheng, H., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., Lam, D.D., Hsieh, Y.-T., Fan, T.-Y., Meltzner, A.J., Taylor, F.W., Quinn, T.M., Chiang, H.-W., and Kilbourne K. H., 2008. Variation of initial ²³⁰Th/²³²Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.011.

Shen, C.-C., Hsieh, Y.-T., Cheng, H., Gallet, S., Wu, C.-C., Chang, C.-C., and Edwards, R.L., 2008. Isotopic and concentration determinations of uranium and thorium in femtogram quantities with permil-level precision by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, in preparation.

Wang, Y.J., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Kong, X.G., Shao, X.H, Chen, S.T., Wu, J.Y., Jiang, X.Y., Wang, X.F., An, Z.S., 2008. Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years. Nature 451, 1090-1093.

Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Ming, Y.F., C. D. Gallup, Kelly, M.J., Wang, X.F., Liu, W.G. 2006. A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations. Geology. 34, 217-220.

Kelly, M., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Yuan, D., Cai, Y., Zhang, M., Lin, Yu., An., Z., 2006. High resolution characterization of the Asian Monsoon between 146,000 and 99,000 years B.P. from Dongge Cave, China and global correlation of events surrounding Termination II. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology 236,20-38.

Dykoski, C.A., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Yuan, D., Cai, Y., Zhang, M., Lin, Y., An, Z., Revenaugh, J., 2005. A high resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 233, 71–86.

Shen, C.-C., Lee, T., Liu, K.-K., Hsu, H.-H., Edwards, R.L., Wang, C.-H., Lee, M.-Y., Chen, Y.-G., Lee, H.-J., Sun, H.-T., 2005. An evaluation of quantitative reconstruction of past precipitation records using coral skeletal Sr/Ca and ¹⁸O data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 237, 370-386.

Wang, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., He, Y., Kong, X., An, Z., Wu, J., Kelly, M.J., Li, X., 2005. The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate. Science 308, 854-857.

Cutler, K.B., Gray, S.C., Burr, G.S., Edwards, R.L., Taylor, F.W., Cabioch, G., Beck, J.W., Cheng, H., Moore, J., 2004. Radiocarbon calibration to 50 ky B.P. with paired ¹⁴C and ²³⁰Th dating of corals from Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon 46 (3), 1127-1160.

Shen, G.J., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., 2004. Mass Spectrometric U-series Dating of New Cave at Zhoukoudian, China. Journal of Archaeological Science 31, 337-342.

Wang, X., Auler, A.S., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Cristalli, P.S., Smart, P.L., Richards, D.A., Shen, C.-C., 2004. Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies. Nature 432, 740-743.

Yuan, D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Dykoski, C.A., Kelly, M.J., Zhang, M., Qing, J., Lin, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Dorale, J.A., An, Z., Cai, Y., 2004. Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon. Science 304, 575-578.

Edwards, R.L., Gallup, C.D., Cheng, H., 2003. Uranium-series Dating of Marine and Lacustrine Carbonates. In Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry v52: Uranium-Series Geochemistry, B. Bourdon, G. Henderson, C. Lundstrom, and S. Turner, editors, Chapter 9, p. 363-406.

Shen, C.-C., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Moran, S.B., Edmonds, H.N., Hoff, J.A., Thomas R.B., 2003. Measurement of attogram quantities of ²³¹Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater by isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectroscopy. Analytical Chem., 75, 1075-1079.

Shen, C.-C., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Dorale, J.A., Thomas, R.B., Moran, S.B., Weinstein, S.E., Edmonds, H.N., 2002. Uranium and thorium isotopic and concentration measurements by magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Chemical Geology, 185, 165-178.

Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Hoff, J., Gallup, C.D., Richards, D.A., Asmerom, Y., 2000. The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230. Chem. Geol. 169, 17-33.

Grant, L.B., Mueller, K.J., Gath, E.M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., and Kennedy, G.L., 1999. An active blind thrust fault in Orange County, southern Los Angeles basin, California. Geology 27, 1031-1034.

Edwards, R.L., 1988. High-precision Th-230 ages of corals and the timing of sea level fluctuations in the late Quaternary. Thesis, California Institute of Technology.

Edwards, R.L., Chen, J.H., Wasserburg, G.J., 1987. ²³⁸U, ²³⁴U, ²³⁰Th, ²³²Th systematics and the precise measurement of time over the past 500,000 years. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 81, 175-192.

Chen J.H., Edwards R.L., and Wasserburg G.J., 1986. 238U, 234U and 232Th in Seawater. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 80(3-4), 241-251