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Yuansheng Du is affiliated with China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 117 publications in this broad field covering multiple subfields.

The subfields of study include:

  • Geophysics
  • Paleontology
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geology

The main topics of their work span various aspects of geology and paleontology, specifically:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies

Yuansheng Du has contributed scholarly articles to several frequently chosen publication venues, including:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Precambrian Research
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Wenchao Yu
  • Peter A. Cawood
  • Jianghai Yang
  • Wei Wei
  • Thomas J. Algeo

Selected recent publications by Yuansheng Du include:

  • Enhanced continental weathering and large igneous province induced climate warming at the Permo-Carboniferous transition, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary, 2022, Geology
  • Cryogenian cap carbonate models: a review and critical assessment, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Boron proxies record paleosalinity variation in the North American Midcontinent Sea in response to Carboniferous glacio-eustasy, 2022, Geology
  • Early Triassic initial collision between the North China and South China blocks in the eastern Qinling Orogenic Belt, 2021, Tectonophysics

Best Publications

  • Large Igneous Province and magmatic arc sourced Permian–Triassic volcanogenic sediments in China

    Jianghai Yang;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Hu Huang

  • The chemical index of alteration (CIA) as a proxy for climate change during glacial-interglacial transitions in Earth history

    Ping Wang;Yuansheng Du;Wenchao Yu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Detrital record of Indosinian mountain building in SW China: Provenance of the Middle Triassic turbidites in the Youjiang Basin

    Jianghai Yang;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Hu Huang

  • Linking south China to northern Australia and India on the margin of Gondwana: Constraints from detrital zircon U‐Pb and Hf isotopes in Cambrian strata

    Yajun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Lisha Hu

  • Detrital zircon record of continental collision: Assembly of the Qilian Orogen, China

    Ya-Jun Xu;Ya-Jun Xu;Yuan-Sheng Du;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Hua Guo

  • Intraplate orogenesis in response to Gondwana assembly: Kwangsian Orogeny, South China

    Ya Jun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuan Sheng Du

  • Global continental weathering trends across the Early Permian glacial to postglacial transition: Correlating high- and low-paleolatitude sedimentary records

    Jianghai Yang;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Bin Feng

  • Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary

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  • Terminal suturing of Gondwana along the southern margin of South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes in Cambrian and Ordovician strata, Hainan Island

    Yajun Xu;Yajun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Zengqiu Zhong

  • Genesis of Cryogenian Datangpo manganese deposit: Hydrothermal influence and episodic post-glacial ventilation of Nanhua Basin, South China

    Wenchao Yu;Wenchao Yu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Yuansheng Du;Barry Maynard

  • Early Paleozoic orogenesis along Gondwana's northern margin constrained by provenance data from South China

    Yajun Xu;Yajun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Hongwei Huang

  • Isotopic composition of organic and inorganic carbon from the Mesoproterozoic Jixian Group, North China: Implications for biological and oceanic evolution

    Hua Guo;Hua Guo;Yuansheng Du;Linda C. Kah;Junhua Huang

  • Provenance record of a foreland basin: Detrital zircon U-Pb ages from Devonian strata in the North Qilian Orogenic Belt, China

    Yajun Xu;Yuansheng Du;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Jianghai Yang

  • Climatic and hydrologic controls on upper Paleozoic bauxite deposits in South China

    Wenchao Yu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Jiaxin Yan;Jianghai Yang

  • Enhanced continental weathering and large igneous province induced climate warming at the Permo-Carboniferous transition

    Jianghai Yang;Peter A. Cawood;Isabel P. Montañez;Daniel J. Condon

  • Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic provenance record of Paleo-Pacific subduction beneath South China

    Lisha Hu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Jianghai Yang

  • Pyrite framboids interpreted as microbial colonies within the Permian Zoophycos spreiten from southeastern Australia

    Yi-Ming Gong;Guang R. Shi;Guang R. Shi;Elizabeth A. Weldon;Elizabeth A. Weldon;Yuan-Sheng Du

  • Early Wuchiapingian cooling linked to Emeishan basaltic weathering

    Jianghai Yang;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Daniel J. Condon

  • Reconstructing Early Permian tropical climates from chemical weathering indices

    Jianghai Yang;Peter Anthony Cawood;Peter Anthony Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Wenqian Li

  • REE mobility and Ce anomaly in bauxite deposit of WZD area, Northern Guizhou, China

    Xiaomei Wang;Yangquan Jiao;Yuansheng Du;Wenli Ling

  • Microbial metallogenesis of Cryogenian manganese ore deposits in South China

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  • Silurian collisional suturing onto the southern margin of the North China craton: Detrital zircon geochronology constraints from the Qilian Orogen

    Jiang Hai Yang;Yuan Sheng Du;Peter A. Cawood;Ya Jun Xu

  • Silicic ash beds bracket Emeishan Large Igneous province to < 1 m.y. at ~ 260 Ma

    Hu Huang;Hu Huang;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Ming Cai Hou;Jiang Hai Yang

  • Mesozoic radiolarian chert from the middle sector of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone,Tibet and its tectonic implications

    Jie Zhu;Yuansheng Du;Zaoxue Liu;Qinglai Feng

  • Newly discovered Sturtian cap carbonate in the Nanhua Basin, South China

    Wenchao Yu;Wenchao Yu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Yuansheng Du;Qi Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Guang Rong Shi
Guang Rong Shi University of Wollongong
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Daniel J. Condon
Daniel J. Condon British Geological Survey
Linda C. Kah
Linda C. Kah University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Lian Zhou
Lian Zhou China University of Geosciences
Nigel C. Hughes
Nigel C. Hughes University of California, Riverside
Jinnan Tong
Jinnan Tong China University of Geosciences
Xuan-Ce Wang
Xuan-Ce Wang Yunnan University

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