Wei, G.-Y*., Zhao, M. *, Sperling, E.A., Gaines, R.R., Kalderon-Asael, B., Shen, J., Li, C., Zhang, F., Li, G., Zhou, C., Cai, C., Chen, D., Xiao, K.-Q., Jiang, L., Ling, H.-F., Planavsky, N.J., Tarhan, L.G., 2024. Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era. Science Advances 10, eadk2152.
Ganglan Zhang, Yinan Deng, Fang Chen, Ming Li, Jun Cao, Hongfei Lai, Yangtao Zhu, Shengxiong Yang, Qianyong Liang, Zenggui Kuang, Yunxin Fang, Yufei Liu, Xuexiao Jiang, Mingyu Zhao. 2024. Copper and zinc isotopic compositions of methane-derived carbonates: Implications for paleo-methane seepage and paleoenvironmental proxies. GSA Bulletin.
Xiao, K.Q., Liang, C., Wang, Z., Peng, J., Zhao, Y., Zhang, M., Zhao, M., Chen, S., Zhu, Y.G. and Peacock, C.L., 2024. Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency. National Science Review, 11(4), p.nwae059.
Mingyu Zhao, Brian Beaty, Lidya Tarhan, Noah Planavsky. 2024. Resetting of shallow-water carbonate boron isotope values during marine burial diagenesis. American Journal of Science. 11. https://doi.org/10.2475/001c.91398
Jiachen Cai, Haoran Sun, Wenjin Zhao, Jianhua Wang and Min Zhu. 2024. The Early Devonian Xitun Vertebrate Fauna in South China inhabited a shallow marine environment with changing salinity. Journal of the Geological Society. [Accepted]
Xiao, K.Q., Zhao, Y., Liang, C., Zhao, M., Moore, O.W., Otero-Fari?a, A., Zhu, Y.G., Johnson, K. and Peacock, C.L., 2023. Introducing the soil mineral carbon pump. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, pp.1-2. Doi:10.1038/s43017-023-00396-y
Zhao, M., Planavsky, N., Wang, X., Zhang, Y., & Hein, J. R. (2023). A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts. American Journal of Science, 323, 10.
Mingyu Zhao, Noah Planavsky, Lidya Tarhan, and Terry Isson. 2023. The influence of warming on phosphorus burial in continental margin sediments. American Journal of Science. 323:6
Lin Z, Strauss H, Zhao M. and Halevy I (2023) Editorial: The effects of early diagenesis in various marine environments on the stable isotope records of environmental conditions and biogeochemical processes. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1161577. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1161577
Liu, Y., Zhao, M., He, T., Li, X. and Poulton, S.W., 2023. Formation of molar tooth structures in low sulfate Precambrian oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 354: 62-73.
Kelei Zhu, Jiawei Liu, Mingyu Zhao, Lulu Fu, Zengfeng Du, Fanqi Meng, Lin Gu, Peiyu Liu, Yan Liu, Chaoqun Zhang, Xin Zhang, Jinhua Li. 2024. An intrusion and environmental effects of man-made silver nanoparticles in cold seeps. Science of the Total Environment. 912: 168890
Mingyu Zhao*, Benjamin J. W. Mills, William B. Homoky and Caroline L. Peacock. 2023. Mineral-organic carbon preservation and the oxygenation of the Earth. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01133-2
Gong, Z., Wei, G.-Y., Fakhraee, M., Alcott, L. J., Jiang, L., Zhao, M., & Planavsky, N. J. (2023). Revisiting marine redox conditions during the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion. Geobiology, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12547
Mingyu Zhao, Yao Zhao, Wei Lin and Ke-Qing Xiao. 2023. An overview of experimental simulations of microbial activity in early Earth. Front. Microbiol. 13:1052831. 26 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1052831
Jianhua Wang, Jiachen Cai, Min Zhu, Tuo Qiao, Liantao Jia and Wenjin Zhao. 2023. New observations of the Silurian strata in the Shiqian area, Northeastern Guizhou: evidence from the Tunping Section. Journal of stratigraphy, 47(1): 59-79 [Chinese in English Abstract].
Wei, G.Y., Wang, J., Planavsky, N.J., Zhao, M., Wei, W. and Ling, H.F., 2022. Reply to Cui: Comment on “On the origin of Shuram carbon isotope excursion in South China and its implication for Ediacaran atmospheric oxygen levels”. Precambrian Research, 380, p.106838.
Wei, G.Y., Wang, J., Planavsky, N.J., Zhao, M., Bolton, E.W., Jiang, L., Asael, D., Wei, W. and Ling, H.F., 2022. On the origin of Shuram carbon isotope excursion in South China and its implication for Ediacaran atmospheric oxygen levels. Precambrian Research, 375, p.106673.
Zhao, M., Tarhan, L., Shull, D., Wang, X., Asael, D. and Planavsky, N., 2022. Covariation between molybdenum and uranium isotopes in reducing marine sediments. Chemical Geology, p.120921.
Jiang, L.*, Zhao, M.*, Shen, A., Huang, L., Chen, D. and Cai, C., 2022. Pulses of atmosphere oxygenation during the Cambrian radiation of animals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 590, p.117565.
Haoran Sun, Zhikun Gai, Jiachen Cai, Qiang Li, Min Zhu and Wenjin Zhao. 2022. Xitunaspis, a new eugaleaspid fish (Eugaleaspiformes, Galeaspida) from the Lower Devonian of Qujing, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 60(3): 169-183.
Mingyu Zhao, Noah Planavsky, Yiyue Zhang, Dan Asael, and R. Pamela Reid. Evaluation of shallow-water carbonates as a seawater Zn isotope archive. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2021) 553, 116599.
Mingyu Zhao, Ruth Blake, Noah Planavsky, Yuhong Liang, Deren Dogru, Deb Jaisi, Sae Jung Chang, and Sitindra Dirghangi. Oxygen isotopic fingerprint on the phosphorus cycle within deep biosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2021), 310:169-186.
Lidya G. Tarhan*, Mingyu Zhao*, and Noah Planavsky. Bioturbation Feedbacks on the Phosphorus Cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2021), 566:116961.
Sophie Westacott, Noah J. Planavsky, Mingyu Zhao, and Pincelli M. Hull. Revisiting the sedimentary record of the rise of diatoms. PNAS (2021), 118 (27): e2103517118.
Yiyue Zhang, Noah J. Planavsky, Mingyu Zhao, Changle Wang, Terry Isson, Dan Asael, and Fei Wang. The isotopic composition of sedimentary organic zinc and implications for the global Zn isotope mass balance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2021), 314, pp.16-26.
Pan, W., Cao, M., Du, Y., Cheng, M., Zhou, Y.Q., Algeo, T.J., Zhao, M.Y., Thibault, N., Li, C., Wei, G.Y. and Dahl, T.W. Paired U and Mo isotope evidence for pervasive anoxia in the Cryogenian early interglacial ocean. Precambrian Research (2021), 361, 106244.
Fangbing Li, Andrew Knudsen, Donald Penman, Mingyu Zhao, and Noah Planavsky. Reverse weathering amplifies the post-Snowball atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Precambrian Research (2021), 364, 106279.
Mingyu Zhao*, Shuang Zhang, Lidya G. Tarhan, Chris Reinhard, and Noah Planavsky*. The role of calcium in regulating marine phosphorus burial and atmospheric oxygenation. Nature communications (2020), 11:2232.
Mingyu Zhao*, Noah Planavsky, Guangyi Wei, Zheng Gong, and Amanda Oehlert. Simulating meteoric and mixing zone carbonate diagenesis with a two-dimensional reactive transport model. American Journal of Science (2020), 320 599-636.
Annika Brüske, Stefan Weyer, Mingyu Zhao, Noah Planavsky, Antje Wegwerth, Nadja Neubert, Olaf Dellwig, Kimberly V. Lau, and Timothy W. Lyons. Correlated molybdenum and uranium isotope signatures in modern anoxic sediments: Implications for their use as paleo-redox proxy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2020), 270 449-474.
Terry T. Isson, Mingyu Zhao, and Noah Planavsky. Zinc isotopes. In: Gargaud M. et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2020).
Feifei Zhang, álvaro del Rey, Stephen J. Romaniello, Noah J. Planavsky, Xinming Chen, Tais W. Dahl, Timothy Lenton, Matthew Clarkson, Ziheng Li, Kimberly Lau, Mingyu Zhao, and Thomas Algeo, Ariel Anbar. Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: A critical review. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2020), 287 27-49.
Jiachen Cai, Wenjin Zhao and Min Zhu, 2020, Subdivision and age of the Silurian fish-bearing Kuanti Formation in Qujing, Yunnan Province: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 58(4): 249-266 [Chinese in English Abstract].
Jianhua Wang, Wenjin Zhao, Min Zhu, Qiang Li, Jiachen Cai, Na Zhang, Lijian Peng and Yanchao Luo. 2020. Microvertebrate remains from the Kuanti Formation of the Liujiachong Section in Qujing, Yunnan and their stratigraphic significance. Earth Science Frontiers, 27(6): 329-340 [Chinese in English Abstract].
Weiping Li, Yanyan Zhao, Mingyu Zhao, Xiangping Zha, and Yongfei Zheng. Enhanced weathering as a trigger for the rise of atmospheric O2 level from the late Ediacaran to the early Cambrian. Scientific Reports (2019), 9 1-12.
Jiang Lei, Noah Planavsky, Mingyu Zhao, Wei Liu, and Xiangli Wang. Authigenic origin for a massive negative carbon isotope excursion. Geology (2019), 47 115-118.
Mingyu Zhao, Christopher T. Reinhard, and Noah Planavsky. Terrestrial methane fluxes and Proterozoic climate. Geology(2018), 46 139-142.
Terry T. Isson, Gordon D. Love, Christopher L. Dupont, Christopher T. Reinhard, Alex J. Zumberge, Dan Asael1, Bleuenn Gueguen, John McCrow, Ben C. Gill, Jeremy Owens, Robert H. Rainbird, Alan D. Rooney, Mingyu Zhao, Eva E. Stüeken, Kurt O. Konhauser, Seth G. John, Timothy W. Lyons, and Noah J. Planavsky. Tracking the Rise of Eukaryotes to Ecological Dominance with Zinc Isotopes. Geobiology (2018), 16:341–352.
Wenjin Zhao, Min Zhu, Zhikun Gai, Zhaohui Pan, Xindong Cui and Jiachen Cai. 2018. A review of Silurian fishes from north-western Hunan, China and related biostratigraphy. Acta Geologica Polonica, 68(3): 475-486.
Mingyu Zhao, and Yongfei Zheng. A geochemical framework for retrieving the linked depositional and diagenetic histories of marine carbonates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2017), 460 213-221.
Yanyan Zhao, Mingyu Zhao, and Sanzhong Li. Evidences of hydrothermal fluids recorded in microfacies of the Ediacaran cap dolostone: geochemical implications in South China. Precambrian Research (2017), 306 1-21
Mingyu Zhao*, Yongfei Zheng*, and Yanyan Zhao. Seeking a geochemical identifier for authigenic carbonate. Nature Communications (2016), 7:10885; doi: 10.1038/ncomms10885.
Mingyu Zhao, and Yongfei Zheng. The intensity of chemical weathering: Geochemical constraints from marine detrital sediments of Triassic age in South China. Chemical Geology (2015), 391 111–122
Mingyu Zhao, and Yongfei Zheng. 2014. Marine carbonate records of terrigenous input into Paleotethyan seawater: Geochemical constraints from Carboniferous limestones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2014), 141 508–531