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Shengyao Yu is affiliated with the Ocean University of China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions within the subfields of Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work engages with a range of main topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Geological Studies and Exploration.

Some of Shengyao Yu's notable recent papers include:

  • Tectono-thermal evolution of the Qilian orogenic system: Tracing the subduction, accretion and closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Slab Rollback Versus Delamination: Contrasting Fates of Flat-Slab Subduction and Implications for South China Evolution in the Mesozoic (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • Jurassic tectonic evolution of Tibetan Plateau: A review of Bangong-Nujiang Meso-Tethys Ocean (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • The odyssey of Tibetan Plateau accretion prior to Cenozoic India-Asia collision: Probing the Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Passive magmatism on Earth and Earth-like planets (2021, Geosystems and Geoenvironment)

Shengyao Yu frequently collaborates with other researchers. Common co-authors include:

  • Sanzhong Li
  • Yongjiang Liu
  • Yinbiao Peng
  • Xiangyu Gao
  • Chuanzhi Li

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Lithos
  • Precambrian Research
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geological Journal

In addition to articles, Shengyao Yu has contributed to book publications, including work released by Frontiers Media titled Permian-Triassic Tethyan Orogeny along the Southern Eurasian Margin (2023).

Best Publications

  • Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia

    Sanzhong Li;Shujuan Zhao;Xin Liu;Huahua Cao

  • Mesozoic tectono-magmatic response in the East Asian ocean-continent connection zone to subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate

    Sanzhong Li;Yanhui Suo;Xiyao Li;Jie Zhou

  • Early Paleozoic polyphase metamorphism in northern Tibet, China

    Jianxin Zhang;Shengyao Yu;Chris G. Mattinson

  • The latest Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Dunhuang block, eastern Tarim craton, northwestern China: Evidence from zircon U–Pb dating and Hf isotopic analyses

    Jianxin Zhang;Shengyao Yu;Jianghua Gong;Huaikun Li

  • U–Pb zircon geochronology of coesite-bearing eclogites from the southern Dulan area of the North Qaidam UHP terrane, northwestern China: spatially and temporally extensive UHP metamorphism during continental subduction

    Jian-Xin Zhang;Chris G. Mattinson;Shengyao Yu;Jin-Ping Li

  • The Grenvillian orogeny in the Altun–Qilian–North Qaidam mountain belts of northern Tibet Plateau: Constraints from geochemical and zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotopic study of magmatic rocks

    Shengyao Yu;Jianxin Zhang;Pablo García del Real;Xilin Zhao

  • Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic multiple tectonothermal events in the western Alxa block, North China Craton and their geological implication: Evidence from zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic composition

    Jianxin Zhang;Jianghua Gong;Shengyao Yu;Huaikun Li

  • Geochemistry, zircon UPb geochronology and LuHf isotopic composition of eclogites and their host gneisses in the Dulan area, North Qaidam UHP terrane: New evidence for deep continental subduction

    Shengyao Yu;Jian-Xin Zhang;Huaikun Li;Kejun Hou

  • Geochemistry and zircon U–Pb ages of adakitic rocks from the Dulan area of the North Qaidam UHP terrane, north Tibet: Constraints on the timing and nature of regional tectonothermal events associated with collisional orogeny

    Shengyao Yu;Jianxin Zhang;Pablo García Del Real

  • Petrogenesis of the early Paleozoic low-Mg and high-Mg adakitic rocks in the North Qilian orogenic belt, NW China: Implications for transition from crustal thickening to extension thinning

    Shengyao Yu;Shengyao Yu;Jianxin Zhang;Haipeng Qin;Deyou Sun

  • Multistage anatexis during tectonic evolution from oceanic subduction to continental collision: A review of the North Qaidam UHP Belt, NW China

    Shengyao Yu;Sanzhong Li;Jianxin Zhang;Yinbiao Peng

  • Ca. 2.5 Ga TTG rocks in the western Alxa Block and their implications

    JiangHua Gong;JianXin Zhang;ShengYao Yu;HuaiKun Li

  • Continental margin basins in East Asia: tectonic implications of the Meso‐Cenozoic East China Sea pull‐apart basins

    Y. H. Suo;Y. H. Suo;S. Z. Li;S. Z. Li;S. J. Zhao;S. J. Zhao;I. D. Somerville

  • Origin of the Alxa Block, western China: New evidence from zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of the Longshoushan Complex

    Jianghua Gong;Jianxin Zhang;Zongqi Wang;Shengyao Yu

  • Tectono-thermal evolution of the Qilian orogenic system: Tracing the subduction, accretion and closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean

    Shengyao Yu;Shengyao Yu;Yinbiao Peng;Jianxin Zhang;Sanzhong Li

  • c. 1.85 Ga HP granulite-facies metamorphism in the Dunhuang block of the Tarim Craton, NW China: evidence from U–Pb zircon dating of mafic granulites

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  • Mesozoic to Cenozoic intracontinental deformation and dynamics of the North China Craton

    S. Z. Li;S. Z. Li;Y. H. Suo;Y. H. Suo;M. Santosh;L. M. Dai;L. M. Dai

  • Early Neoproterozoic magmatic imprints in the Altun-Qilian-Kunlun region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Response to the assembly and breakup of Rodinia supercontinent

    Yinbiao Peng;Shengyao Yu;Sanzhong Li;Jianxin Zhang

  • Petrology, geochemistry, zircon U–Pb dating and Lu–Hf isotope of granitic leucosomes within felsic gneiss from the North Qaidam UHP terrane: Constraints on the timing and nature of partial melting

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  • Microplate tectonics: new insights from micro-blocks in the global oceans, continental margins and deep mantle

    Sanzhong Li;Yanhui Suo;Xiyao Li;Bo Liu

  • Combined rutile-zircon thermometry and U-Pb geochronology: New constraints on Early Paleozoic HP/UHT granulite in the south Altyn Tagh, north Tibet, China

    Jian-Xin Zhang;Chris G. Mattinson;Shengyao Yu;Yunshuai Li

  • Mesozoic plate subduction in West Pacific and tectono-magmatic response in the East Asian ocean-continent connection zone

    Sanzhong Li;Yanhui Suo;Xiyao Li;Yongming Wang

  • Paleozoic HP granulite-facies metamorphism and anatexis in the Dulan area of the North Qaidam UHP terrane, western China: Constraints from petrology, zircon U–Pb and amphibole Ar–Ar geochronology

    Shengyao Yu;Jian-Xin Zhang;Chris G. Mattinson;Pablo García del Real

  • Provenance of eclogitic metasediments in the north Qilian HP/LT metamorphic terrane, western China: Geodynamic implications for early Paleozoic subduction-erosion

    Jian-Xin Zhang;Jin-Ping Li;Shengyao Yu;Fan-Cong Meng

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanzhong Li
Sanzhong Li Ocean University of China
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Jianxin Zhang
Jianxin Zhang Hebei University of Technology
Ian D. Somerville
Ian D. Somerville University College Dublin
Liming Dai
Liming Dai University of New South Wales
Franz Neubauer
Franz Neubauer University of Salzburg
Johann Genser
Johann Genser University of Salzburg
Xin Liu
Xin Liu Ocean University of China
Deyou Sun
Deyou Sun Jilin University
Yang Li
Yang Li Tianjin University

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