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Hong-Fei Ling

Hong-Fei Ling

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
9798
World Ranking
2880
National Ranking
182

Overview

Hong-Fei Ling is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and has made substantial contributions to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on diverse subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Inorganic Chemistry. Their research outputs are primarily concentrated on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, alongside studies related to earthquakes and tectonics.

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Hong-Fei Ling are:

  • Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records (2021) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Enhanced chemical weathering triggered an expansion of euxinic seawater in the aftermath of the Sturtian glaciation (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Biogeochemical cycle of chromium isotopes at the modern Earth's surface and its applications as a paleo-environment proxy (2020) published in Chemical Geology
  • Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar (2020) published in Geology
  • Highly dynamic marine redox state through the Cambrian explosion highlighted by authigenic δ238U records (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of research colleagues whose frequent coauthors include Guang-Yi Wei, Wei Wei, Feifei Zhang, Tianyu Chen, and Weifeng Chen. These collaborations have contributed to a consistent output of interdisciplinary research in geosciences.

Best Publications

  • Middle to late Jurassic felsic and mafic magmatism in southern Hunan province, southeast China: Implications for a continental arc to rifting

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Bao-Zhang Dai;Shi-Yong Liao

  • Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

    Xi Chen;Hong-Fei Ling;Derek Vance;Graham A. Shields-Zhou

  • Cerium anomaly variations in Ediacaran–earliest Cambrian carbonates from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implications for oxygenation of coeval shallow seawater

    Hong-Fei Ling;Xi Chen;Da Li;Dan Wang

  • Low-degree melting of a metasomatized lithospheric mantle for the origin of Cenozoic Yulong monzogranite-porphyry, east Tibet: Geochemical and Sr Nd Pb Hf isotopic constraints

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hong-Fei Ling;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Evolution of Nd and Pb isotopes in Central Pacific seawater from ferromanganese crusts

    H.F. Ling;K.W. Burton;R.K. O'Nions;B.S. Kamber

  • The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in eastern Chinese Tianshan: evidence for a post-Marinoan glaciation

    Shuhai Xiao;Huiming Bao;Haifeng Wang;Alan J. Kaufman

  • Closure of the Central American Isthmus and its effect on deep-water formation in the North Atlantic

    Kevin W. Burton;Hong-Fei Ling;R. Keith O'Nions

  • Extreme enrichment of polymetallic Ni–Mo–PGE–Au in Lower Cambrian black shales of South China: An Os isotope and PGE geochemical investigation

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Jing-Hong Yang;Hong-Fei Ling;Yong-Quan Chen

  • Contrasting origins of late Mesozoic adakitic granitoids from the northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, east China: implications for crustal thickening to delamination

    Ming-Lan Hou;Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hong-Fei Ling

  • Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean.

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

  • Petrology and geochemistry of shoshonitic plutons from the western Kunlun orogenic belt, Xinjiang, northwestern China: implications for granitoid geneses

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hong-Fei Ling;Xun-Ruo Zhou

  • Petrogenesis of a Late Jurassic Peraluminous Volcanic Complex and its High-Mg, Potassic, Quenched Enclaves at Xiangshan, Southeast China

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Hong-Fei Ling;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hong-Hai Fan

  • SECULAR VARIATION OF ND AND PB ISOTOPES IN FERROMANGANESE CRUSTS FROM THE ATLANTIC, INDIAN AND PACIFIC OCEANS

    R.K. O’Nions;Martin Frank;F. von Blanckenburg;H.-F. Ling

  • Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of phosphate nodules from the lower Cambrian black shale sequence in the Mufu Mountain of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Hai-Xiang Zhao;Yong-Quan Chen;Tao Yang

  • Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic significance of two Early Cretaceous A-type granites in the Gan-Hang Belt, Southeast China

    Shui-Yuan Yang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao;Yao-Hui Jiang

  • Trace- and rare-earth element geochemistry and Pb–Pb dating of black shales and intercalated Ni–Mo–PGE–Au sulfide ores in Lower Cambrian strata, Yangtze Platform, South China

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Yong-Quan Chen;Hong-Fei Ling;Jing-Hong Yang

  • Early Cambrian ocean anoxia in South China

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Dao-Hui Pi;Dao-Hui Pi;Christoph Heubeck;Hartwig Frimmel

  • Carbon and strontium isotope evolution of seawater across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition: Evidence from the Xiaotan section, NE Yunnan, South China

    Da Li;Da Li;Hong-Fei Ling;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Xi Chen

  • Redox changes in Early Cambrian black shales at Xiaotan section, Yunnan Province, South China

    Lawrence M. Och;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Simon W. Poulton;Christina Manning

  • Petrogenesis of Late Jurassic Qianlishan granites and mafic dykes, Southeast China: implications for a back-arc extension setting

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao;Hong-Fei Ling

Frequent Co-Authors

Shao-Yong Jiang
Shao-Yong Jiang China University of Geosciences
Kui-Dong Zhao
Kui-Dong Zhao China University of Geosciences
Yao-Hui Jiang
Yao-Hui Jiang Nanjing University
Maoyan Zhu
Maoyan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Graham A. Shields
Graham A. Shields University College London
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Robert Frei
Robert Frei University of Copenhagen
Ulrich Struck
Ulrich Struck Museum für Naturkunde
Tao Sun
Tao Sun University of Virginia
Pei Ni
Pei Ni Nanjing University

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