Ying Zhou
Department of Earth Science, University College London, UK;
y-zhou@ucl.ac.uk |
My background is geochemistry and physical geography. I am very interested in using isotopes, as well as geochemical and geological approaches more generally, to trace ocean composition,redox conditions and nutrient cycling in deep time. I am especially interested in how life and its physical environment have co-evolved, especially before the Cambrian explosion of animal life. Currently I am working in the project ‘Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition (~650 to ~520 Ma) (PPT)’, which is one part of the Research programme: ‘Biosphere Evolution, Transitions and Resilience’, funded jointly by NERC (UK) and NSFC (China). My part of the project is to look into redox conditions and nutrient cycling in the run up to the Cambrian bioradiations using black shales collected from the famous Doushantuo Formation on the South China Craton. At the same time, I am working on reconstructing the strontium, lithium and possibly molybdenum isotopic composition of early Neoproterozoic seawater, which hopefully will contribute to answering the question: how and when the mysterious ‘boring billion’ ended.
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Cryogenian related publications:
J.M. McArthur, R.J. Howarth, GA Shields, Y Zhou, 2020, Geologic Time Scale 2020, Strontium isotope stratigraphy. 211-238.
Ying Zhou, Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann, Maoyan Zhu, Hongfei Ling, Christina Manning, Da Li, Tianchen He, Graham A. Shields; Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar. Geology 2020; 48 (5): 462–467. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G46756.1
Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S.W., Thompson, J., Kathryn F. Husband, Maoyan Zhu, Ying Zhou, Graham A. Shields & Timothy M. Lenton. Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen. Nat. Geosci.13, 296–301 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0548-7
Fairchild, I.J., Spencer, A.M., Ali, D.O., Anderson, R.P., Anderton, R., Boomer, I., Dove, D., Evans, J.D., Hambrey, M.J., Howe, J., Sawaki, Y., Wang, Z., Shields, G., Skelton, A. Tucker, M.E. and Zhou, Y. 2018 Tonian-Cryogenian boundary sections of Argyll, Scotland. Precambrian Research, 319, 37-64.
He, T., Zhou, Y., VERMEESCH, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., . . . Shields, G. (2016). Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448, SP448.14. doi:10.1144/SP448.14
Ying Zhou, Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann, Maoyan Zhu, Hongfei Ling, Christina Manning, Da Li, Tianchen He, Graham A. Shields; Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar. Geology 2020; 48 (5): 462–467. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G46756.1
Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S.W., Thompson, J., Kathryn F. Husband, Maoyan Zhu, Ying Zhou, Graham A. Shields & Timothy M. Lenton. Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen. Nat. Geosci.13, 296–301 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0548-7
Fairchild, I.J., Spencer, A.M., Ali, D.O., Anderson, R.P., Anderton, R., Boomer, I., Dove, D., Evans, J.D., Hambrey, M.J., Howe, J., Sawaki, Y., Wang, Z., Shields, G., Skelton, A. Tucker, M.E. and Zhou, Y. 2018 Tonian-Cryogenian boundary sections of Argyll, Scotland. Precambrian Research, 319, 37-64.
He, T., Zhou, Y., VERMEESCH, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., . . . Shields, G. (2016). Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448, SP448.14. doi:10.1144/SP448.14