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Name: Liang Liu 

Title: Associate Professor 

Phone: +86 02085290932 

Email: liangliu@gig.ac.cn

　　 

Resume: 

　　I have an interdisciplinary educational background—Geology, Geochemistry, and Geodynamics Modelling. In addition, I have ~8 years of coding experience in developing advanced tools for geodynamic modeling. I am currently focusing on studying： 1） the roles of terrane accretion and subduction on the global intraplate tectonics, and 2) the roles of upper-mantle properties on the evolution of the western Pacific geodynamics, depending on numerical modeling and big-data analysis. 

Research Interests：

　　During my Ph.D. study, I focused on exploring the role of a potentially volatile-rich layer, i.e., the metasome layer with the composition resembling the Mica-Amphibole-Rutile-Ilmenite-Diopside xenoliths, on the mantle dynamics of Archean cratons.

　　I am currently focusing on studying:

· the roles of terrane accretion and subduction on global intraplate tectonics;

· the roles of the upper-mantle volatiles and density anomalies on the Mesozoic-Cenozoic circum-Pacific geodynamics;

· the 3D behaviors of the subduction-related geodynamics and their intraplate responses.

Recent Publications：

 Liu, L.*, Liu, L.J.*, Morgan, J.P., and Xu, Y.-G., 2022. New Constraints on Cenozoic Subduction between India and Tibet, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1649898/v1. Submitted.

 Peng, L., Liu L., and Liu, L. J., 2022. The Fate of Delaminated Cratonic Lithosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Accepted.

 Liu, L., Liu, L. and Xu, Y.G., 2021b. Intermittent Post-Paleocene continental collision in South Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, in press, DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094531.

 Liu, L., Liu, L.J., and Xu, Y.G., 2021a. Mesozoic intraplate tectonism of East Asia due to flat subduction of a composite Yanshanian slab. Earth-Science Reviews, p.103505.

 Liu, L.J., Peng, D., Liu, L., Chen, L., Li, S., Wang, Y., Cao, Z. and Feng, M., 2021. East Asian lithospheric evolution dictated by multistage Mesozoic flat-slab subduction. Earth-Science Reviews, p.103621.

 Liu, L., Liu, L.J., Xu, Y.G., Xia, B., Ma, Q. and Menzies, M., 2019. Development of a dense cratonic keel prior to the destruction of the North China Craton: constraints from sedimentary records and numerical simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(12), pp.13192-13206.

 Liu, L., 2018. Numerical modeling of the craton destruction process, with a type-example from the North China Craton (Doctoral dissertation, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, United Kingdom).

 Liu, L.*, Morgan, J.P*., Xu, Y. G.*, and Menzies, M., 2018a. Craton Destruction Part I: Cratonic Keel Delamination along a weak Mid‐Lithospheric Discontinuity layer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015372.

 Liu, L.*, Morgan, J.P.*, Xu, Y. G.*, and Menzies, M., 2018b. Craton Destruction Part II: Evolution of Cratonic Lithosphere after a Rapid Keel Delamination Event, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015374.

 

 Conferences

 Peng, L., Liu, L., Wang, Y., Cao, Z. and Liu, L.J., 2021, December. Lithosphere Delamination and Relamination Reconcile Craton Longevity and Temporal Variations. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2021, pp. T15C-0185).

 Peng, D., Liu, L., Liu, L., Chen, L. and Li, S., 2020, December. Late-Cretaceous Izanagi Flat Subduction below East Asia and Tectonic Responses. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.

 Liu, L., Morgan, J.P., Xu, Y. and Menzies, M.A., 2016, December. Numerical Modelling of the Destruction of the Eastern North China Craton. In 2016 AGU Fall Meeting. AGU.

 Liu, L., Morgan, J.P., Xu, Y. and Menzies, M.A., 2015, Multi-Stage Destruction of a Cratonic Lithospheric Mantle Following a Rapid Delamination Event. The XIV International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics. France.
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