Yongjun Gao
Yongjun GaoResearch Associate Professor, Geochemistry, Petrology Ph.D., Geochemistry, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany (2004) Office: 332-B SR1 Google Scholar Profile |
Research Interests
Generation and evolution of oceanic crust. Systematics of 18O/16O, 11B/10B, 7Li/6Li ratios and elemental concentrations in the oceanic crust through its cooling and alteration history. In-situ UV-Laser fluorination techniques for oxygen isotopes and in-situ LA-MC-ICPMS for trace element and Li and B isotopes.Selected Publications
- Gao, Y., Snow, J.E., Casey, J.F., Yu, J., 2011. Cooling-induced fractionation of mantle Li isotopes from the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge. Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 301, 231-240.
- Gao, Y., F. Vils, K. M. Cooper, N. Banerjee, M. Harris, J. Hoefs, D. A. H. Teagle, J. F. Casey, T. Elliott, C. Laverne, J. C. Alt, K. Muehlenbachs, 2012, Down-hole variation of lithium and oxygen isotopic compositions of oceanic crust at East Pacific Rise, ODP Site 1256, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2012GC004207
- Gao,Y., Casey, J.F., 2011. Lithium isotope composition of ultramafic geological reference materials: JP-1 and DTS-2. Geostand. Geoanal. Res. doi:10.1111/j.1751-908X. 2011. 00117.x.
- Yongjun Gao, Jochen Hoefs, Eric Hellebrand, Anette von der Handt and Jonathan E. Snow, 2006, Trace element zoning in pyroxenes from ODP Hole 735B gabbros: Diffusive exchange or synkinematic crystal ractionation? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 153 (4), 429-442.
- Yongjun Gao, Jochen Hoefs, Reinhold Przybilla, Jonathan E. Snow, 2006, A complete oxygen isotope profile through the lower oceanic crust, ODP Hole 735B, Chemical Geology. 233(3-4), 217-234
- Huang, J. Y. Xiao, Y. Gao (correspondence author), Z. Hou, W. Wu, 2012, Nb-Ta fractionation induced by fluid-rock interaction in subduction-zones: Constraints from UHP eclogite- and vein-hosted rutile from the Dabie orogen, Central-Eastern China, J. Metamorph Geol, 821-842.
- Sun, H., Y.L. Xiao, Y. Gao (student as first author), J.Q. Lai, Z. Hou, Y. Wang, 2012, Fluid and melt inclusions in the Mesozoic Fangcheng basalt from North China Craton: implications for magmaevolution and fluid/melt-peridotite reaction, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1-17.