Institute of Geology;
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences;
Beijing 100037 China;
Department of Earth and Space Sciences. University of Science and Technology of China;
Hefei 230026 China;
Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology;
Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Xi'an 710054 China;
reef-building; coral; oxygen; isotope; thermometer; mass; spectrometry.;