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Hongcheng Guo

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1993

Publications

31

Citations

474

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

33

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
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Hongcheng Guo's research focuses on understanding the thermal and tectonic history of rocks using techniques like apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, a method that uses the accumulation and diffusion of helium in mineral grains to date when rocks cooled and reconstruct uplift and erosion histories. The work spans topics such as mountain-building processes in the Himalaya and Altai region, basin sediment reservoir quality, and links between deep-Earth carbon release and past climate change. This research combines laboratory heating experiments, geochemical analysis, and geologic field observations to study how tectonic and climatic processes interact over millions of years.

Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry and helium diffusionTectonic uplift and mountain-building (Himalaya, Altai, Transantarctic Mountains)Sedimentary basin reservoir quality and diagenesisDeep carbon cycling and paleoclimate (Miocene Climatic Optimum)Structural geology and strike-slip fault systems

Publication output has been variable but shows increased activity in the most recent years (2021, 2024, 2025) compared to a slower period around 2019 and 2023.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 2 publications18192020: 2 publications202021: 6 publications6212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 5 publications242025: 4 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×3
  • Harvard Dataverse×3
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta×2
  • Lithosphere×1
  • Geochemical Perspectives Letters×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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