Research Interests

Isotope Geochemistry

Paleo-ocean environment

Projects

·   National Natural Science Foundation of China, The mechanism of massive enrichment of Fe-Mn and the response to evolution of Earth’s surface systems in the Precambrian, 2023-01-01 to 2026-12-31, 2.49 million, Participant.

·   National Natural Science Foundation of China, Mg isotopes in weathering and reverse weathering process of the surface environment in Great Oxidation Event, 2022-01-01 to 2025-12-31, 610 K, Participant.

·   National Natural Science Foundation of China, A case study of iron isotopic and elemental compositions on Superior-type banded iron formation in Paleoproterozoic from Animikie Basin, 2022-01-01 to 2024-12-31, 300 K, Host

·   National Natural Science Foundation of China, Calibration of Barium Isotope Fractionation Factor between K-Feldspar and Granitic Melt. 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31, 610 K, Participant.

·   National Natural Science Foundation of China, The mechanism of thick-layer dolomite from Series 3-Furongian of Cambrian in east of upper Yangtze Platform. 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31, 80 K, Participant.

Publications

·   Fangbing Li; Xiangkun Zhu*; Honglei Ding; Kan Zhang; Local hydrothermal sources for Superior-type iron formations: Insights from the Animikie Basin, Precambrian Research, 2022, 377(106736)

·   Weibing Shen; Xiangkun Zhu*; Bin Yan; Haoyi Qin; Zhaofu Gao; Fangbing Li; Sequence stratigraphy of the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation in South China: Constraints on Marinoan glaciation dynamics, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2021, 214: 104776

·   Fangbing Li; Donald Penman; Noah Planavsky; Andrew Knudsen; Mingyu Zhao; Xiangli Wang; Terry Isson; Kangjun Huang; Guangyi Wei; Shuang Zhang; Jun Shen; Xiangkun Zhu; Bing Shen*. Reverse weathering may amplify post-Snowball atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, Precambrian Research, 2021, 364(12):10627

·   Fangbing Li, Xianguo Lang; Haoran Ma; Yixin Cui; Haoxiang Pei; Bing Shen*; Heterogeneous seawater phosphorus concentrations during the Sturtian glaciation: Evidence from P/Fe ratios of Fulu Formation ironstone in South China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020, 537: 0-109409

·   Yixin Cui; Bing Shen*; Yuanlin Sun; Haoran Ma; Jieqiong Chang; Fangbing Li; Xianguo Lang; Yongbo Peng, A pulse of seafloor oxygenation at the Late Devonian FrasnianFamennian boundary in South China Earth-Science Reviews, 2021, 218: 103651

·   Cui, Yixin; Lang, Xianguo; Li Fangbing; Huang, Kangjun; Ma, Haoran; Li, Chenqing; Pei, Haoxiang; Li, Chao; Zhou, Chuanming; Shen, Bing*; Germanium/silica ratio and rare earth element composition of silica-filling in sheet cracks of the Doushantuo cap carbonates, South China: Constraining hydrothermal activity during the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation, Precambrian Research, 2019, 332: 0-105407

·   Fangbing Li, F-Z Teng, J-T Chen, K-J Huang, S-J Wang, X-G Lang, H-R Ma, Y-B Peng, Bing Shen*, (2016), Constraining ribbon rock dolomitization by Mg isotopes: Implications for the ‘dolomite problem’, Chemical Geology, 445:208-220

·   Peng, Y., Peng, Y., Lang, X., Ma, H., Huang, K., Li, F., Shen, B.*, (2016a), Marine Carbon-Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycles during the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) in the Jiangnan Basin, South China. Journal of Earth Science 27, 242-254.

·   Yang Peng, Bing Shen*, Xianguo Lang, Kangjun Huang, Jitao Chen, Zhen Yan, Wenbo Tang, Shan Ke, Haoran Ma, Fangbing Li, (2016b), Constraining dolomitization by Mg isotopes: A case study from partially dolomitized limestones of the middle Cambrian Xuzhuang Formation, North China. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 17, 1109-1129.

·   K.J. Huang, B. Shen*., X.G. Lang, W.B. Tang, Y. Peng, Shan Ke, Alan J. Kaufman, H.R. Ma, F.B. Li, (2015), Magnesium isotopic compositions of the Mesoproterozoic dolostones: Implications for Mg isotopic systematics of marine carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 164, 333-351