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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
7600
World Ranking
6035
National Ranking
375

Best Publications

  • Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

    C. Scott;T. W. Lyons;A. Bekker;A. Bekker;Y. Shen

  • Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

    Shu-zhong Shen;James L. Crowley;James L. Crowley;Yue Wang;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era

    Yanan Shen;Roger Buick;Donald E. Canfield

  • Middle Proterozoic ocean chemistry: Evidence from the McArthur Basin, northern Australia

    Yanan Shen;Donald E. Canfield;Andrew Herbert Knoll

  • Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin

    Yanan Shen;Andrew H. Knoll;Malcolm R. Walter

  • The antiquity of microbial sulfate reduction

    Yanan Shen;Roger Buick

  • Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean.

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

  • Evaluating the role of microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean using quadruple isotope systematics

    Yanan Shen;James Farquhar;James Farquhar;Andrew Masterson;Alan J. Kaufman

  • On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals

    Yanan Shen;Tonggang Zhang;Paul F. Hoffman

  • New C isotope stratigraphy from southwest China: Implications for the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Yangtze Platform and global correlations

    Yanan Shen;Manfred Schidlowski

  • Association of 34S‐depleted pyrite layers with negative carbonate δ13C excursions at the Permian‐Triassic boundary: Evidence for upwelling of sulfidic deep‐ocean water masses

    Thomas Algeo;Yanan Shen;Tonggang Zhang;Timothy Lyons

  • Rapid enhancement of chemical weathering recorded by extremely light seawater lithium isotopes at the Permian–Triassic boundary

    He Sun;Yilin Xiao;Yongjun Gao;Guijie Zhang

  • Multiple S-isotopic evidence for episodic shoaling of anoxic water during Late Permian mass extinction

    Yanan Shen;James Farquhar;Hua Zhang;Andrew Masterson

  • Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

    Tonggang Zhang;Yanan Shen;Renbin Zhan;Shuzhong Shen

  • Evidence for sulfidic deep water during the Late Permian in the East Greenland Basin

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  • Termination of a continent-margin upwelling system at the Permian-Triassic boundary (Opal Creek, Alberta, Canada)

    Shane D. Schoepfer;Charles M. Henderson;Geoffrey H. Garrison;Julien Foriel

  • Widespread shoaling of sulfidic waters linked to the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction

    Guijie Zhang;Xiaolin Zhang;Dandan Li;James Farquhar

  • Sulfur isotope biogeochemistry of the Proterozoic McArthur Basin

    David T. Johnston;David T. Johnston;James Farquhar;Roger E. Summons;Yanan Shen

  • Redox chemistry changes in the Panthalassic Ocean linked to the end-Permian mass extinction and delayed Early Triassic biotic recovery

    Guijie Zhang;Xiaolin Zhang;Dongping Hu;Dandan Li

  • Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction

    Dongping Hu;Menghan Li;Xiaolin Zhang;Alexandra V. Turchyn

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