Research Interests

·   “Event” deposits, sedimentary processes, and subaqueous paleoseismology

Projects

·   Austrian Science Fund Program: In situ and secondary seismogenic sedimentary effects based Dead Sea paleoseismology: Developing a 220 kyr-long continuous earthquake record (2020-2022). Project lead: Dr. Yin Lu.

·   IPD-STEMA Program, University of Liege: Obtaining a 220,000 years-long complete and continuous earthquake record based on a deep drilling in the Dead Sea center (2019-2020). Project lead: Dr. Yin Lu.

Publications

Personal webpage:

https://yinlusite.wordpress.com (PDF of all publications are available)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yin_Lu22   

https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=EOihye4AAAAJ&hl=en

As first/correspondence author (*):

     · Lu, Y.*, Pope E., Sun Q.L., Strasser, M., 2025. Clustered slumping in the northern South China Sea: Implications for chronology and geohazards. Global and Planetary Change, 244, 104623, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.10

·   Lu, Y.*, 2024. Seismites as new indicators of regional tectonism. PAGES Magazine, doi.org/10.22498/pages.32.1.6. (invited; Science Highlights)

     ·  Zhang J.D., Liang C., Cao Y.C., Chen A.,  Lu, Y.*, 2024. Feature of event bed combinations constrains the seismic origin for soft-sediment deformation as applied to the Lingshan Island, Qingdao, East China. Advances in Earth Science, 39 (1), 96-107, doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2024.007 (in Chinese with English title, abstract & figure captions)

 ·   Lu, Y.*, Pope E., Moernaut, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N., Agnon, A., Marco, S., Strasser, M., 2022. Stratigraphic record reveals contrasting roles of overflows and underflows over glacial cycles in a hypersaline lake (Dead Sea). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 594, 117723, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117723

·   Lu, Y.*, Wetzler, N., Marco, S., Fang, X.M., 2022. Subaqueous event deposits response to regional neotectonics: Case studies of the Dead Sea Basin and the Qaidam Basin. Quaternary Sciences, 42(3), doi: 10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2022.03.01 (invited; in Chinese with English title & abstract)

·   Lu, Y.*, Moernaut, J., Waldmann, N.D., Bookman, R., Alsop, I., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Strasser, M., Agnon, A., and Marco, S., 2021. Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in lake-levels facilitate earthquake-triggered mass failures in the Dead Sea Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (14) doi: 10.1029/2021GL093391

·   Lu, Y.*, Marco, S., Wetzler, N., Fang, X.M., Alsop, I., and Hubert-Ferrari, A., 2021. A paleoseismic record spanning 2-Myr reveals episodic late Pliocene deformation in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibet. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(5), e2020GL090530;doi: 10.1029/2020GL090530

·   Lu, Y.*, Moernaut, J., Bookman, R., Waldmann, N.D., Wetzler, N., Agnon, A., Marco, S., Alsop, I., Strasser, M., and Hubert-Ferrari, A., 2021. A new approach to constrain the seismic origin for prehistoric turbidites as applied to the Dead Sea Basin.Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3), e2020GL090947; doi:10.1029/2020GL090947

·   Lu, Y.*, Wetzler, N., Waldmann, N.D., Agnon, A., Biasi, G.P. and Marco, S., 2020. A 220,000-year-long continuous large earthquake record on a slow-slipping plate boundary. Science Advances,6(48), eaba4170; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba4170

·   Lu, Y.*, Dewald, N., Koutsodendris, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Rössler, W., Pross, J., Fang, X.M., Appel, E., and Friedrich. O. Sedimentological evidence for pronounced glacial-interglacial climate fluctuations in NE Tibet in the latest Pliocene to early Pleistocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(5), e2020PA003864; doi: 10.1029/2020PA003864

·   Lu, Y.*, Bookman, R., Waldmann, N.D., and Marco, S., 2020. A 45 kyr laminae record from the Dead Sea: Implications for basin erosion and floods recurrence.Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106143; doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106143

·   Lu, Y.*, Fang, X.M.*,Friedrich, O., Song, C.H., 2018. Characteristic grain-size component - A useful process-related parameter for grain-size analysis of lacustrine clastics? Quaternary International, 479: 90-99; doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.07.027

·   Lu, Y.*, Waldmann, N.D., G. Ian Alsop and Marco, S., 2017. Interpreting soft sediment deformation and mass transport deposits as seismites in the Dead Sea depocenter. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122: 8305-8325; doi: 10.1002/2017JB014342

·   Lu, Y.*, Waldmann, N.D., Nadel, D., and Marco, S., 2017. Increased sedimentation following the Neolithic Revolution in the Southern Levant. Global and Planetary Change, 152: 199-208; doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.04.003

·   Lu, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Appel, E., Wang, J.Y., Herb, C., Han, W.X., Wu, F.L., Song, C.H., 2015. A 7.3-1.6 Ma grain size record of interaction between anticline uplift and climate change in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Sedimentary Geology, 319: 40-51; 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.01.008

Co-authored papers:

       ·   Wang, Z.S., Miao, Y.F.*, Zou, Y.G., Zhao, Y.T., Han, W.X., Zhang, H.L., Zhang, Z.G., Gao, C.H., Zhang, Z.Y., Lu, Y., 2023. Microcharcoals Reveal More Grass Than Trees During the Mid-Holocene Optimum on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 50: e2023GL103637, doi: 10.1029/2023GL103637

·   Yang, L., Zhang, W.*, Fang, X., Cai, M. and Lu, Y.,2020. Aridification recorded by lithofacies and grain size in a continuous Pliocene-Quaternary lacustrine sediment record in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 556, 109903; doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109903

·   Kaboth-Bhr, S.*, Koutsodendris, A., Lu, Y.,Nakajima, K., Zeeden, C., Appel, E., Fang, X.M., Rössler, W., Friedrich, O. and Pross, J. 2020.A late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (3.3–2.1 Ma) orbital chronology for the Qaidam Basin paleolake (NE Tibetan Plateau) based on the SG-1b drillcore record.Newsletters on Stratigraphy,DOI: 10.1127/nos/2020/0555

·   Fang, X.M.*, Fang, Y.H., Zan, J.B., Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H., Appel, E., Meng, Q.Q., Miao, Y.F., Dai, S., Lu, Y., Zhang, T., 2019. Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 190, 460-485.

·   Zhang W.L.*, Zhang T., Song C.H., Appel E., Mao Z.Q., Fang Y.H., Lu, Y., Meng Q.Q., Yang R.S., Zhang D.W., Li B.S., Li J., 2017. Termination of fluvial-alluvial sedimentation in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its subsequent geomorphic evolution. Geomorphology, 297: 86-99.

·   Fang, X.M.*, Wang, J.Y., Zhang, W.L., Zan, J.B., Song, C.H., Yan, M.D., Appel, E., Zhang, T., Wu, F.L., Yang, Y.B., Lu, Y., 2016. Tectonosedimentary evolution model of an intracontinental flexural (foreland) basin for paleoclimatic research. Global and Planetary Change, 145: 78-97.

·   Zan, J.B., Fang, X.M.*, Yan, M.D., Zhang, W.L., Lu, Y., 2015. Lithologic and rock magnetic evidence for the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum recorded in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 431: 6-14.

·   Fang, X.M.*, Zan, J.B., Appel, E., Lu, Y., Song, C.H., Dai, S.E., Tuo, S.B., 2015. An Eocene-Miocene continuous rock magnetic record from the sediments in the Xining Basin, NW China: indication for Cenozoic persistent drying driven by global cooling and Tibetan Plateau uplift. Geophysical Journal International, 201 (1): 78-89.