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Yongsheng Liu

Yongsheng Liu

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Earth Science

D-Index
80
Citations
39172
World Ranking
517
National Ranking
35

Overview

Yongsheng Liu is a researcher affiliated with Yangtze University in China with extensive expertise in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several main and subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence applications, geochemistry and petrology, paleontology, and ecology. Liu's scholarly output reflects a focus on geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the field with notable publications in well-established venues, reflecting their active engagement with the research community. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology
  • Lithos
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Liu's research interests are evidenced in recent significant papers, such as:

  • Iso-Compass: new freeware software for isotopic data reduction of LA-MC-ICP-MS (2020) published in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Bulk compositions of the Chang'E-5 lunar soil: Insights into chemical homogeneity, exotic addition, and origin of landing site basalts (2022) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Tanz zircon megacrysts: a new zircon reference material for the microbeam determination of U-Pb ages and Zr-O isotopes (2021) published in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Lithium isotope compositions of the Yangtze River headwaters: Weathering in high-relief catchments (2020) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Massive carbon storage in convergent margins initiated by subduction of limestone (2021) published in Nature Communications

Collaborations are a significant part of Liu's research output. Frequent coauthors associated with their work include:

  • Zhaochu Hu
  • Zaicong Wang
  • Wen Zhang
  • Keqing Zong
  • Stephen Foley

The scientist's main topics of research cover:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Yongsheng Liu's work demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach linked to both fundamental geoscience and applications of isotopic and elemental analysis methods, contributing to a broad understanding of Earth system processes and materials under varying geological conditions.

Best Publications

  • In situ analysis of major and trace elements of anhydrous minerals by LA-ICP-MS without applying an internal standard

    Yongsheng Liu;Zhaochu Hu;Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Detlef Günther

  • Continental and Oceanic Crust Recycling-induced Melt^Peridotite Interactions in the Trans-North China Orogen: U^Pb Dating, Hf Isotopes and Trace Elements in Zircons from Mantle Xenoliths

    Yongsheng Liu;Yongsheng Liu;Shan Gao;Zhaochu Hu;Changgui Gao

  • Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton

    Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Roberta L. Rudnick;Hong-Ling Yuan;Xiao-Ming Liu

  • Reappraisement and refinement of zircon U-Pb isotope and trace element analyses by LA-ICP-MS

    YongSheng Liu;ZhaoChu Hu;KeQing Zong;ChangGui Gao

  • Improved in situ Hf isotope ratio analysis of zircon using newly designed X skimmer cone and jet sample cone in combination with the addition of nitrogen by laser ablation multiple collector ICP-MS

    Zhaochu Hu;Yongsheng Liu;Shan Gao;Wengui Liu

  • Re-Os evidence for replacement of ancient mantle lithosphere beneath the North China Craton

    Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Roberta L Rudnick;Richard W Carlson;William F McDonough

  • Geochemistry and magmatic history of eclogites and ultramafic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drill hole: Subduction and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of lower crustal cumulates

    Yongsheng Liu;Yongsheng Liu;Keqing Zong;Peter B. Kelemen;Shan Gao

  • The assembly of Rodinia: The correlation of early Neoproterozoic (ca. 900 Ma) high-grade metamorphism and continental arc formation in the southern Beishan Orogen, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB)

    Keqing Zong;Keqing Zong;Reiner Klemd;Yu Yuan;Zhenyu He

  • "Wave" signal-smoothing and mercury-removing device for laser ablation quadrupole and multiple collector ICPMS analysis: application to lead isotope analysis.

    Zhaochu Hu;Wen Zhang;Yongsheng Liu;Shan Gao

  • Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Hannuoba and Qixia, North China craton

    Roberta L. Rudnick;Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Wen-li Ling;Yong-shen Liu

  • Geochemical investigation of Early Cretaceous igneous rocks along an east–west traverse throughout the central Lhasa Terrane, Tibet

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Xuan-Xue Mo;Yaoling Niu;Zhi-Dan Zhao

  • Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton

    Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Roberta L. Rudnick;Wen-Liang Xu;Hong-Lin Yuan

  • Cambrian bimodal volcanism in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet: Record of an early Paleozoic Andean-type magmatic arc in the Australian proto-Tethyan margin

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yildirim Dilek;Yildirim Dilek

  • Deep carbon cycles constrained by a large-scale mantle Mg isotope anomaly in eastern China

    Shu-Guang Li;Shu-Guang Li;Wei Yang;Shan Ke;Xunan Meng

  • Geochronology and Hf isotopes of zircon from volcanic rocks of the Shuangqiaoshan Group, South China: implications for the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern Jiangnan orogen

    Xiao Lei Wang;Xiao Lei Wang;Guochun Zhao;Jin Cheng Zhou;Yongsheng Liu

  • Calibration and correction of LA-ICP-MS and LA-MC-ICP-MS analyses for element contents and isotopic ratios

    Jie Lin;Yongsheng Liu;Yueheng Yang;Zhaochu Hu

  • Reactivation of the Archean lower crust: Implications for zircon geochronology, elemental and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic geochemistry of late Mesozoic granitoids from northwestern Jiaodong Terrane, the North China Craton

    Kui-Feng Yang;Hong-Rui Fan;M. Santosh;M. Santosh;Fang-Fang Hu

  • 3.45Ga granitic gneisses from the Yangtze Craton, South China: Implications for Early Archean crustal growth

    Jing-Liang Guo;Shan Gao;Yuan-Bao Wu;Ming Li

  • Zircon U–Pb age and trace element evidence for Paleoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphism and Archean crustal rocks in the Dabie Orogen

    Yuan-Bao Wu;Yong-Fei Zheng;Shan Gao;Wen-Fang Jiao

  • Recycled crust controls contrasting source compositions of Mesozoic and Cenozoic basalts in the North China Craton

    Yongsheng Liu;Yongsheng Liu;Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Peter B. Kelemen;Wenliang Xu

  • Mesozoic crustal thickening of the eastern North China craton: Evidence from eclogite xenoliths and petrologic implications

    Wenliang Xu;Shan Gao;Qinghai Wang;Dongyan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhaochu Hu
Zhaochu Hu China University of Geosciences
Shan Gao
Shan Gao China University of Geosciences
Keqing Zong
Keqing Zong China University of Geosciences
Shenghong Hu
Shenghong Hu China University of Geosciences
Lian Zhou
Lian Zhou China University of Geosciences
Yuan-Bao Wu
Yuan-Bao Wu China University of Geosciences
Zaicong Wang
Zaicong Wang China University of Geosciences
Honglin Yuan
Honglin Yuan Northwest University
Stephen F. Foley
Stephen F. Foley Macquarie University
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences

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