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Jian Cao is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has a significant body of work within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields of study, including Mechanics of Materials, Paleontology, Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geophysics.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Jian Cao has published in various scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Chemical Geology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Science China Earth Sciences

Co-authorship has been a notable part of their work, collaborating extensively with researchers such as:

  • Yong Tang
  • Wenxuan Hu
  • Dongming Zhi
  • Liuwen Xia
  • Wenjun He

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jian Cao include:

  • An alkaline lake in the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA): A review and new insights into paleoenvironment and petroleum geology, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Unsynchronized evolution of salinity and pH of a Permian alkaline lake influenced by hydrothermal fluids: A multi-proxy geochemical study, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Coupling of paleoenvironment and biogeochemistry of deep-time alkaline lakes: A lipid biomarker perspective, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Authigenic clay minerals and calcite dissolution influence reservoir quality in tight sandstones: Insights from the central Junggar Basin, NW China, 2020, Energy Geoscience
  • Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of Jurassic mudstones in the northern Qaidam Basin, northwest China

    Jian Cao;Ming Wu;Yan Chen;Kai Hu

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

  • An alkaline lake in the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA): A review and new insights into paleoenvironment and petroleum geology

    Jian Cao;Liuwen Xia;Tingting Wang;Dongming Zhi

  • The Permian hybrid petroleum system in the northwest margin of the Junggar Basin, northwest China

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  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

    Chris M. Brierley;Anni Zhao;Sandy P. Harrison;Pascale Braconnot

  • Petroleum migration and mixing in the northwestern Junggar Basin (NW China): constraints from oil-bearing fluid inclusion analyses

    Jian Cao;Suping Yao;Zhijun Jin;Wenxuan Hu

  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate : Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4)

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Anni Zhao;Chris M. Brierley

  • Episodic petroleum fluid migration in fault zones of the northwestern Junggar Basin (northwest China): Evidence from hydrocarbon-bearing zoned calcite cement

    Zhijun Jin;Jian Cao;Wenxuan Hu;Yijie Zhang

  • Diagenetic constraints on the heterogeneity of tight sandstone reservoirs: A case study on the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in the Sichuan Basin, southwest China

    Yifeng Liu;Yifeng Liu;Wenxuan Hu;Jian Cao;Xiaolin Wang

  • A unique lacustrine mixed dolomitic-clastic sequence for tight oil reservoir within the middle Permian Lucaogou Formation of the Junggar Basin, NW China: Reservoir characteristics and origin

    Haiguang Wu;Wenxuan Hu;Jian Cao;Xiaolin Wang

  • A review of carbonates as hydrocarbon source rocks: basic geochemistry and oil–gas generation

    Liu-Wen Xia;Jian Cao;Ming Wang;Ju-Lei Mi

  • Geochemistry and origins of natural gases in the central Junggar Basin, northwest China

    Jian Cao;Xulong Wang;Ping’an Sun;Yueqian Zhang

  • Dissolution and its impacts on reservoir formation in moderately to deeply buried strata of mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sediments, northwestern Qaidam Basin, northwest China

    Jinlai Feng;Jinlai Feng;Jian Cao;Kai Hu;Xiaoqun Peng

  • Geochemistry and origin of natural gas in the petroliferous Mahu sag, northwestern Junggar Basin, NW China: Carboniferous marine and Permian lacustrine gas systems

    Keyu Tao;Jian Cao;Yuce Wang;Wanyun Ma

  • Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming

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  • Improved understanding of petroleum migration history in the Hongche fault zone, northwestern Junggar Basin (northwest China): Constrained by vein-calcite fluid inclusions and trace elements

    Jian Cao;Zhijun Jin;Wenxuan Hu;Yijie Zhang

  • A primary study of the Jilin-Heilongjiang high-pressure metamorphic belt: Evidence and tectonic implications

    Jian-Bo Zhou;J. Han;Simon Wilde;X. Guo

  • Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial

    Paolo Scussolini;Pepijn Bakker;Chuncheng Guo;Christian Stepanek

  • Formation of saddle dolomites in Upper Cambrian carbonates, western Tarim Basin (northwest China): Implications for fault-related fluid flow

    Juntao Zhang;Wenxuan Hu;Yixiong Qian;Xiaolin Wang

  • Unsynchronized evolution of salinity and pH of a Permian alkaline lake influenced by hydrothermal fluids: A multi-proxy geochemical study

    Liuwen Xia;Jian Cao;Eva E. Stüeken;Eva E. Stüeken;Dongming Zhi

  • Mechanism of Organic Matter Accumulation in Residual Bay Environments: The Early Cretaceous Qiangtang Basin, Tibet

    Jian Cao;Ruofei Yang;Wei Yin;Guang Hu;Guang Hu

  • Coupling of paleoenvironment and biogeochemistry of deep-time alkaline lakes: A lipid biomarker perspective

    Liuwen Xia;Jian Cao;Wenxuan Hu;Dongming Zhi

  • Deep hydrocarbons in the northwestern Junggar Basin (NW China): Geochemistry, origin, and implications for the oil vs. gas generation potential of post-mature saline lacustrine source rocks

    Keyu Tao;Jian Cao;Xin Chen;Zhaman· Nueraili

  • Thermochemical oxidation of methane induced by high-valence metal oxides in a sedimentary basin.

    Wen-Xuan Hu;Xun Kang;Jian Cao;Xiao-Lin Wang

  • Toward Predicting Changes in the Land Monsoon Rainfall a Decade in Advance

    Bin Wang;Juan Li;Mark A. Cane;Jian Liu

  • Development of Climate and Earth System Models in China: Past Achievements and New CMIP6 Results

    Tianjun Zhou;Ziming Chen;Liwei Zou;Xiaolong Chen

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 -- Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments (in open review for Geoscientific Model Development - doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-18)

    M. Kageyama;S. Albani;P. Braconnot;S. P. Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

David Selby
David Selby Durham University
Eva E. Stüeken
Eva E. Stüeken University of St Andrews
Yongxiang Li
Yongxiang Li RMIT University
Zhijun Jin
Zhijun Jin Sinopec (China)
Weisheng Hu
Weisheng Hu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Alan R. Carroll
Alan R. Carroll University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gordon D. Love
Gordon D. Love University of California, Riverside
I-Ming Chou
I-Ming Chou Chinese Academy of Sciences

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