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Overview

Zhifei Liu is affiliated with Tongji University in China and has an extensive publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geochemistry and Petrology. Their research contributions cover a broad range of topics within geology and environmental science.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Liu has published frequently in various scientific journals, with the most common venues being:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Marine Geology
  • Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Recent selected publications include:

  • "Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and related compounds in the environment: Recent updates on pretreatment, analysis, and removal techniques," 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Island-wide variation in provenance of riverine sedimentary organic carbon: A case study from Taiwan," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Soil aggregate stability and its response to overland flow in successive Eucalyptus plantations in subtropical China," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Triclosan and related compounds in the environment: Recent updates on sources, fates, distribution, analytical extraction, analysis, and removal techniques," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Clay-mineral distribution in recent deep-sea sediments around Taiwan: Implications for sediment dispersal processes," 2021, Tectonophysics

Among their frequent collaborators are:

  • Yulong Zhao
  • Baozhi Lin
  • Christophe Colin
  • Jiawang Wu
  • Xuesong Feng

Best Publications

  • Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau

    Chengshan Wang;Xixi Zhao;Zhifei Liu;Peter C. Lippert

  • Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349

    Chun Feng Li;Xing Xu;Jian Lin;Zhen Sun

  • Source-to-sink transport processes of fluvial sediments in the South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Yulong Zhao;Christophe Colin;Karl Stattegger

  • The Indus–Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites from Nanga Parbat to Namche Barwa syntaxes, southern Tibet: First synthesis of petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology with incidences on geodynamic reconstructions of Neo-Tethys

    R. Hébert;R. Bezard;C. Guilmette;J. Dostal

  • Climatic and tectonic controls on weathering in south China and Indochina Peninsula: Clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the Pearl, Red, and Mekong drainage basins

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Wei Huang;Khanh Phon Le

  • Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the northeastern South China Sea and surrounding fluvial drainage basins: Source and transport

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Xiajing Li;Yulong Zhao;Yulong Zhao

  • Clay mineral assemblages in the northern South China Sea: implications for East Asian monsoon evolution over the past 2 million years

    Zhifei Liu;Alain Trentesaux;Steven C Clemens;Christophe Colin

  • Detrital fine-grained sediment contribution from Taiwan to the northern South China Sea and its relation to regional ocean circulation

    Zhifei Liu;Shouting Tuo;Christophe Colin;James T. Liu

  • Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics

    Chun Feng Li;Jiabiao Li;Weiwei Ding;Dieter Franke

  • Rapid transition from continental breakup to igneous oceanic crust in the South China Sea

    H. C. Larsen;H. C. Larsen;G. Mohn;M. Nirrengarten;Z. Sun

  • Chemical weathering in Luzon, Philippines from clay mineralogy and major-element geochemistry of river sediments.

    Zhifei Liu;Yulong Zhao;Christophe Colin;Fernando P. Siringan

  • Sediment sources and East Asian monsoon intensity over the last 450 ky. Mineralogical and geochemical investigations on South China Sea sediments

    S. Boulay;Christophe Colin;A. Trentesaux;N. Frank

  • Erosional history of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since 190 kyr ago: clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the southwestern South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Dominique Blamart

  • Climatic and tectonic controls on chemical weathering in tropical Southeast Asia (Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra)

    Zhifei Liu;Hao Wang;Wahyoe S. Hantoro;Edlic Sathiamurthy

  • Mineralogical control on the fate of continentally derived organic matter in the ocean

    Thomas M. Blattmann;Zhifei Liu;Yonghua Zhang;Yulong Zhao

  • Revision of the Cretaceous–Paleogene stratigraphic framework, facies architecture and provenance of the Xigaze forearc basin along the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone

    Chengshan Wang;Xianghui Li;Zhifei Liu;Yalin Li

  • Late Quaternary climatic control on erosion and weathering in the eastern Tibetan Plateau and the Mekong Basin

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Giuseppe Siani

  • Evolution of the South China Sea and monsoon history revealed in deep-sea records

    Pinxian Wang;Zhimin Jian;Quanhong Zhao;Qianyu Li

  • Magnetostratigraphy of Tertiary sediments from the Hoh Xil Basin: implications for the Cenozoic tectonic history of the Tibetan Plateau

    Zhifei Liu;Zhifei Liu;Xixi Zhao;Chengshan Wang;Shun Liu

  • Sedimentary responses to the Pleistocene climatic variations recorded in the South China Sea

    Sébastien Boulay;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Stéphane Clain

  • Yarlung Zangbo ophiolites (Southern Tibet) revisited: geodynamic implications from the mineral record

    Réjean Hébert;François Huot;Chengshan Wang;Zhifei Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Colin
Christophe Colin University of Paris-Saclay
Giuseppe Siani
Giuseppe Siani Université Paris Cité
Alain Trentesaux
Alain Trentesaux University of Lille
Xixi Zhao
Xixi Zhao Tongji University
Xiao-Long Huang
Xiao-Long Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian Lin
Jian Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Norbert Frank
Norbert Frank Heidelberg University
Joann M. Stock
Joann M. Stock California Institute of Technology
P. Montagna
P. Montagna National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Zhen Sun
Zhen Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

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