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Yongchao Lu is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Mechanics of Materials, Geology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics.

Their scholarly work focuses on core topics such as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geophysical studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, geological studies and exploration, and geological and geochemical analysis.

Yongchao Lu has published in a variety of journals, frequently appearing in these venues:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energies
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their recent published papers include:

  • Lithofacies and depositional mechanisms of the Ordovician-Silurian Wufeng-Longmaxi organic-rich shales in the Upper Yangtze area, southern China (2020, AAPG Bulletin)
  • Relative sea-level changes and organic matter enrichment in the Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian Wufeng-Longmaxi Formations in the Central Yangtze area, China (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • East Asian lake hydrology modulated by global sea-level variations in the Eocene warmhouse (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Geological Characteristics of Shale Gas in Different Strata of Marine Facies in South China (2021, Journal of Earth Science)
  • Is volcanic ash responsible for the enrichment of organic carbon in shales? Quantitative characterization of organic-rich shale at the Ordovician-Silurian transition (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)

Yongchao Lu frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Yangbo Lu, Jingyu Zhang, Xuebin Du, Shu Jiang, and Yiquan Ma. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of shale gas storage: Implications for shale gas exploration in China

    Fang Hao;Huayao Zou;Yongchao Lu

  • Identifying marine incursions into the Paleogene Bohai Bay Basin lake system in northeastern China

    Wei Wei;Wei Wei;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Yangbo Lu;YongChao Lu

  • Sequence stratigraphy and architectural variability in Late Eocene lacustrine strata of the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

    Youliang Feng;Sitian Li;Yongchao Lu

  • Heterogeneity of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi marine shale in the southeast Sichuan Basin of China

    Lei Chen;Lei Chen;Lei Chen;Yongchao Lu;Shu Jiang;Jianqing Li

  • Organic matter-hosted pore system in the Wufeng-Longmaxi (O3w-S11) shale, Jiaoshiba area, Eastern Sichuan Basin, China

    Haiyan Hu;Fang Hao;Junfeng Lin;Yongchao Lu

  • Productivity or preservation? The factors controlling the organic matter accumulation in the late Katian through Hirnantian Wufeng organic-rich shale, South China

    Yangbo Lu;Shu Jiang;Shu Jiang;Yongchao Lu;Shang Xu

  • Climate-driven paleolimnological change controls lacustrine mudstone depositional process and organic matter accumulation: Constraints from lithofacies and geochemical studies in the Zhanhua Depression, eastern China

    Yiquan Ma;Yiquan Ma;Majie Fan;Yongchao Lu;Huimin Liu

  • Geochemistry and sedimentology of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi mudstone in southwestern China: Implications for depositional controls on organic matter accumulation

    Yiquan Ma;Yiquan Ma;Majie Fan;Yongchao Lu;Xusheng Guo

  • Paleo-environmental cyclicity in the Early Silurian Yangtze Sea (South China): Tectonic or glacio-eustatic control?

    Zhanhong Liu;Zhanhong Liu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Xusheng Guo;Junxuan Fan

  • Sequence stratigraphy and its application in marine shale gas exploration: A case study of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the Jiaoshiba shale gas field and its adjacent area in southeast Sichuan Basin, SW China

    Lei Chen;Lei Chen;Yongchao Lu;Shu Jiang;Jianqing Li

  • Advantageous shale lithofacies of Wufeng Formation-Longmaxi Formation in Fuling gas field of Sichuan Basin, SW China

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  • Geochemical and petrographic characteristics of Wufeng-Longmaxi shales, Jiaoshiba area, southwest China: Implications for organic matter differential accumulation

    Yuxuan Wang;Shang Xu;Fang Hao;Fang Hao;Yangbo Lu

  • Investigation of methane sorption of overmature Wufeng-Longmaxi shale in the Jiaoshiba area, Eastern Sichuan Basin, China

    Haiyan Hu;Fang Hao;Xusheng Guo;Fangyao Dai

  • High-resolution astrochronological record for the Paleocene-Oligocene (66–23 Ma) from the rapidly subsiding Bohai Bay Basin, northeastern China

    Zhanhong Liu;Zhanhong Liu;Chunju Huang;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Huimin Liu

  • Sequence-stratigraphic architectures and sand-body distribution in Cenozoic rifted lacustrine basins, east China

    Shu Jiang;Sverre Henriksen;Hua Wang;Yongchao Lu

  • Relationship between the origin of organic-rich shale and geological events of the Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian in the Upper Yangtze area

    Lanyu Wu;Yongchao Lu;Shu Jiang;Shu Jiang;Shu Jiang;Xiaofeng Liu

  • Lithofacies and depositional mechanisms of the Ordovician–Silurian Wufeng–Longmaxi organic-rich shales in the Upper Yangtze area, southern China

    Yangbo Lu;Fang Hao;Yongchao Lu;Detian Yan

  • Depositional environment and organic matter enrichment of the lower Cambrian Niutitang shale in western Hubei Province, South China

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  • Effects of volcanic activities in Ordovician Wufeng-Silurian Longmaxi period on organic-rich shale in the Upper Yangtze area, South China

    Lanyu Wu;Yongchao Lu;Shu Jiang;Xiaofeng Liu

  • Middle Eocene paleohydrology of the Dongying Depression in eastern China from sedimentological and geochemical signatures of lacustrine mudstone

    Yiquan Ma;Yiquan Ma;Majie Fan;Yongchao Lu;Huimin Liu

  • Source to sink transport in the Oligocene Huagang Formation of the Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin

    Jingyu Zhang;Jingyu Zhang;Yongchao Lu;Wout Krijgsman;Jinshui Liu

  • Cyclic late Katian through Hirnantian glacioeustasy and its control of the development of the organic-rich Wufeng and Longmaxi shales, South China

    Yangbo Lu;Chunju Huang;Shu Jiang;Shu Jiang;Jingyu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Jiang
Shu Jiang China University of Geosciences
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Fang Hao
Fang Hao China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Kenneth A. Eriksson
Kenneth A. Eriksson Virginia Tech
Xiaodong Song
Xiaodong Song Peking University
Huyue Song
Huyue Song China University of Geosciences
Qinhong Hu
Qinhong Hu The University of Texas at Arlington
Jinchuan Zhang
Jinchuan Zhang China University of Geosciences
Junxuan Fan
Junxuan Fan Nanjing University

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