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Name  
 LIU Mu
Title  
   Special-term Associate Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Sedimentology
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Zip Code  
   100029
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Email  
   liumu[a]mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
  • 2006-2009 Zhengzhou Foreign Language School
  • 2009-2013 China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Bachelor of Engineer
  • 2013-2016 University of Oklahoma, Master of Science
  • 2016-2019 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph. D.
  • 2020-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2023-present Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests：
  1. The driving factors behind major biotic events during the Ordovician-Silurian
  2. Oceanic Anoxic Event records in marine and terrestrial environments.
  3. Sedimentological and paleoceanographic implications of marine red beds.
  4. Applications of biomarkers in paleoenvironmental and petroleum geological studies.
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(#contribute equally author，*corresponding author)

  1. Liu, M.*, Yuan, W., Fang, C., Wang, X., Tan, N., Zhao, M., Wang, X., Algeo, T.J., Sun, P., Feng, X., Chen, D., 2025. Mercury isotope evidence for Middle Ordovician photic-zone euxinia: Implications for termination of the Great Ordovician biodiversification event. Gondwana Research 137, 131-144.
  2. Liu, M., Chen, D.*, Ma, H., Ding, Y.* 2025. Do red marine carbonates represent oxic environments? New understanding from the Upper Ordovician marine limestone in Tarim Basin, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology171, 107166.
  3. Liu, M.*, Fang, C.*, Chen, D., 2024. Syndepositional and diagenetic processes in the pigmentation of Middle Ordovician carbonate red beds in South China. Sedimentary Geology 470, 106722.
  4. Liu, M.*, Philp, R.P., 2024. Utilization of Pyrrolic Compounds as Indicators of Secondary Migration for Woodford Oils in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA. Journal of Earth Science 35, 1499-1512.
  5. Fang, C., Liu, M.*, Zhang, C., Tang, H., Li, J., Xing, G., Li, F., Xu, N., Wu, T., Liu, B.*, 2024. Middle Ordovician climatic and oceanic destabilization in a slope-setting of the Yangtze platform, South China, and its role as a regional brake on the Ordovician radiations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 648, 112265.
  6. Li, S.-z.*, Xu, Q.-c.*, Liu, M.*, Liu, G.-h., Li, Y.-f., Wang, W.-y., Yang, X.-g., Liu, W.-b., An, Y.-f., Sun, P., Liu, T., Ding, J.-h., Li, Q.-c., Fang, C.-g., 2024. Formation, evolution, reconstruction of black shales and their influence on shale oil and gas resource. China Geology 7, 551-585.
  7. Yuan, W.#, Liu, M.#, Chen, D.*, Xing, Y., Spicer, R.A., Chen, J., Them, T.R., Wang, X., Li, S., Guo, C., Zhang, G., Zhang, L., Zhang, H., Feng, X.*, 2023. Mercury isotopes show vascular plants had colonized land extensively by the early Silurian. Science Advances 9, eade9510.
  8. Liu, M., Chen, D.*, Jiang, L., Stockey, R.G., Aseal, D., Zhang, B., Liu, K., Yang, X., Yan, D., Planavsky, N.J., 2022. Oceanic anoxia and extinction in the latest Ordovician. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 588, 117553.
  9. Liu, W., Liu, M.*, Yang, T., Liu, X., Them, T.R., Wang, K., Bian, C., Meng, Q.a., Li, Y., Zeng, X., Zhao, W., 2022. Organic matter accumulations in the Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) lacustrine Nenjiang shale (K2n) in the Songliao Basin, NE China: Terrestrial responses to OAE3? International Journal of Coal Geology 260, 104069.
  10. Liu, M., Ji, C.*, Hu, H., Xia, G., Yi, H., Them, T.R., Sun, P., Chen, D., 2021. Variations in microbial ecology during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) in the Qiangtang Basin, Tibet: Evidence from biomarker and carbon isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 580, 110626.
  11. Liu, M., Sun, P., Them, T.R., Li, Y., Sun, S., Gao, X., Huang, X., Tang, Y.*, 2020. Organic geochemistry of a lacustrine shale across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) from NE China. Global and Planetary Change 191, 103214.
  12. Liu, M., Chen, D.*, Zhou, X., Tang, D., Them, T. R., Jiang, M., 2019. Upper Ordovician marine red limestones, Tarim Basin, NW China: A product of an oxygenated deep ocean and changing climate? Global and Planetary Change 183, 103032.
  13. Liu, M., Chen, D.*, Zhou, X., Yuan, W., Jiang, M., Liu, L., 2019. Climatic and oceanic changes during the Middle-Late Ordovician transition in the Tarim Basin, NW China and implications for the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514, 522-535.
  14. 刘牧, 季长军, 黄元耕, 丁一, 陈荣庆, 陈明思, 杨钹, 陈代钊, 2024. 羌塘盆地索瓦组碳酸盐岩红层成因和环境意义. 沉积学报 42, 812-822.
  15. 刘牧, 陈柏林, 李松彬. 阿尔金山北缘喀腊大湾地区早古生代中酸性侵入岩岩石地球化学特征及构造意义. 地质与资源, 2014, 23(4):369-375.
  16. Qi, Y., Ju, Y., Liu, M., Cai, C., Zhu, H., 2024. Volcanic and climatic impacts on silicon abundance in shale: Implications for the expansion of Permo-Carboniferous terrestrial plants in North China. Gondwana Research 132, 1-19.
  17. Yang, X., Yan, D., Liu, M., Liu, X., Gong, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, B., Chen, D., 2024. Zinc isotopic evidence for enhanced continental weathering and organic carbon burial in the Early Silurian. Chemical Geology 662, 122209.
  18. Zhang, J., Li, C., Zhong, Y., Wu, X., Fang, X., Liu, M., Chen, D., Gill, B.C., Algeo, T.J., Lyons, T.W., Zhang, Y., Tian, H., 2024. Linking carbon cycle perturbations to the Late Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction: A modeling approach. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 631, 118635.
  19. El-Shafeiy, M., Chen, D., Chu, Z., Liu, M., El-Kahawy, R.M., 2024. Chemo- and bio-stratigraphic constraints on Cretaceous-Paleocene biotic turnover in the southern Tethys low-oxygen margin, Egypt. Gondwana Research 129, 142-166.
  20. Li, S., Zhou, Z., Nie, H., Liu, M., Meng, F., Shen, B., Zhang, X., Wei, S., Xi, Z., Zhang, S., 2023. Organic matter accumulation mechanisms in the Wufeng-Longmaxi shales in western Hubei Province, China and paleogeographic implications for the uplift of the Hunan-Hubei Submarine high. International Journal of Coal Geology 270, 104223.
  21. Fang, C., Zhang, C., Meng, G., Xu, J., Xu, N., Li, H., Liu, M., Liu, B., 2023. Constraints on the Accumulation of Organic Matter in the Upper Permian Dalong Formation from the Lower Yangtze Region, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 98, 150-167.
  22. Kozik, N.*, Young, S. A., Newby, S. M., Liu, M., Chen, D., Hammarlund, E. U., Bond, D. P. G., Them, T. R., Owens, J. D., 2022, Rapid marine oxygen variability: driver of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, Science Advances 8, eabn8345.
  23. Wang, Y., Chen, D.*, Liu, M., Liu, K., Tang, P., 2022. Ediacaran carbon cycling and Shuram excursion recorded in the Tarim Block, northwestern China. Precambrian Research 377, 106694.
  24. Ge, X., Chen, D.*, Zhang, G., Huang, T., Liu, M., El-Shafeiy, M., 2022. Marine redox evolution and organic accumulation in an intrashelf basin, NE Sichuan Basin during the Late Permian. Marine and Petroleum Geology 140, 105633.
  25. Zhang, G., Chen, D.*, Huang, K.-J., Liu, M., Huang, T., Yeasmin, R., Fu, Y., 2021. Dramatic attenuation of continental weathering during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Implications for the climatic-oceanic-biological co-evolution. Global and Planetary Change 203, 103518.
  26. Yang, X., Yan, D.*, Chen, D., Liu, M., She, X., Zhang, B., Zhang, L., Zhang, J., 2021. Spatiotemporal variations of sedimentary carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions in the Yangtze Shelf Sea across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567, 110257.
  27. Yang, X., Yan, D.*, Chen, D., Liu, M., She, X., Zhang, J., Wei, X., Lu, Z., 2020. Spatial variation of carbon isotopic compositions of carbonate and organic matter from the Late Ordovician sedimentary succession in the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for sea – Level eustacy and shoaling of marine chemocline. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 202, 104540.
  28. 刘牧, 陈柏林, 李松彬. 阿尔金山北缘喀腊大湾地区早古生代中酸性侵入岩岩石地球化学特征及构造意义. 地质与资源, 2014, 23(4):369-375.
  29. 周锡强, 陈代钊, 刘牧, 胡建芳, 2017. 中国沉积学发展战略：沉积地球化学研究现状与展望. 沉积学报 35, 1293-1316.
 
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