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Overview

Genming Luo is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several interconnected fields including paleontology, geochemistry, atmospheric science, mechanics of materials, and geophysics.

Their publication record focuses heavily on topics such as the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, as well as geological and geophysical studies.

Frequent coauthors of Genming Luo include Shucheng Xie, Thomas J. Algeo, Zhenbing She, Chao Li, and Dominic Papineau.

Most of Luo's research appears in a range of publication venues where they have contributed multiple papers. These venues include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Genming Luo are:

  • Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the "dolomite problem", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extensive marine anoxia associated with the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian OAE) in the Ordos Basin, North China, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • Enigmatic super-heavy pyrite formation: Novel mechanistic insights from the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Bulk and grain-scale minor sulfur isotope data reveal complexities in the dynamics of Earth's oxygenation, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Climate warming in the latest Permian and the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

    Michael M. Joachimski;Xulong Lai;Shuzhong Shen;Haishui Jiang

  • Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

    Genming Luo;Genming Luo;Shuhei Ono;Nicolas J. Beukes;David T. Wang

  • Reconstruction of secular variation in seawater sulfate concentrations

    T. J. Algeo;T. J. Algeo;G. M. Luo;H. Y. Song;T. W. Lyons

  • Isotopic evidence for massive oxidation of organic matter following the great oxidation event

    Lee R. Kump;Christopher Junium;Christopher Junium;Christopher Junium;Michael A. Arthur;Alex Brasier

  • Restudy of conodont zonation and evolution across the P/T boundary at Meishan section, Changxing, Zhejiang, China

    Haishui Jiang;Xulong Lai;Genming Luo;Richard Aldridge

  • Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean.

    Wanyi Lu;Andy Ridgwell;Andy Ridgwell;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas;Dalton S. Hardisty

  • Cyanobacterial blooms tied to volcanism during the 5 m.y. Permo-Triassic biotic crisis

    Shucheng Xie;Richard D. Pancost;Yongbiao Wang;Hao Yang

  • Isotopic evidence for an anomalously low oceanic sulfate concentration following end-Permian mass extinction

    Genming Luo;Genming Luo;Lee R. Kump;Yongbiao Wang;Jinnan Tong

  • Early Triassic seawater sulfate drawdown

    Huyue Song;Jinnan Tong;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Haijun Song

  • Uncovering the spatial heterogeneity of Ediacaran carbon cycling

    Chao Li;Dalton S. Hardisty;Genming Luo;Junhua Huang

  • Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the "dolomite problem".

    Biao Chang;Chao Li;Deng Liu;Ian Foster

  • Two episodes of environmental change at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the GSSP section Meishan

    Hongfu Yin;Shucheng Xie;Genming Luo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Comparative microbial diversity and redox environments of black shale and stromatolite facies in the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation

    Genming Luo;Genming Luo;Christian Hallmann;Shucheng Xie;Xiaoyan Ruan

  • Global events of the Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian): A review

    Wenkun (郄文昆) Qie;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Genming Luo;Achim Herrmann

  • Enhanced nitrogen fixation in the immediate aftermath of the latest Permian marine mass extinction

    Genming Luo;Yongbiao Wang;Thomas J. Algeo;Lee R. Kump

  • Ediacaran Marine Redox Heterogeneity and Early Animal Ecosystems

    Chao Li;Noah J. Planavsky;Wei Shi;Zihu Zhang

  • Lipid biomarkers for the reconstruction of deep-time environmental conditions

    Genming Luo;Huan Yang;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Christian Hallmann;Christian Hallmann

  • Sulfur isotope evidence for transient marine-shelf oxidation during the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion

    Wei Shi;Chao Li;Genming Luo;Junhua Huang

  • Decline in oceanic sulfate levels during the early Mesoproterozoic

    Genming Luo;Genming Luo;Shuhei Ono;Junhua Huang;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Shallow stratification prevailed for ∼1700 to ∼1300 Ma ocean: Evidence from organic carbon isotopes in the North China Craton

    Genming Luo;Christopher K. Junium;Lee R. Kump;Junhua Huang

  • Stepwise and large-magnitude negative shift in δ13Ccarb preceded the main marine mass extinction of the Permian–Triassic crisis interval

    Genming Luo;Yongbiao Wang;Hao Yang;Thomas J. Algeo

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Lee R. Kump
Lee R. Kump Pennsylvania State University
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Xulong Lai
Xulong Lai China University of Geosciences
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds
Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas Yale University
Timothy M. Lenton
Timothy M. Lenton University of Exeter

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