Publications

• Published (* indicates the corresponding author(s), # indicates the co-first author)
  1. Cao, Z.*, & Liu, L. (2021). “Origin of Three‐Dimensional Crustal Stress Over the Conterminous United States”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(11), e2021JB022137.
  2. Liu, L.*, Peng, D., Liu, L., Chen, L., Li, S., Wang, Y., Cao, Z., & Feng, M. (2021). “East Asia lithosphere evolution dictated by multistage Mesozoic flat-slab subduction”. Earth-Science Reviews, 217, 103621.
  3. Liu, Y., Liu, L.*, Li, Y.,Peng, D., Wu, Z., Cao, Z., Li, S., Du, Q. (2022). “Global Back-arc Extension due to Trench-parallel Mid-ocean Ridge Subduction”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 600, 117889.
  4. Zhang, L., Cao, Z., Zartman, R., Li, C., Sun, S., Liu, L.*, & Sun, W*. (2023). “Plume-plume Interaction at Hawaii”. The Innovation, 4(2).
  5. Wang, Y.#, Cao, Z.#, Peng, L., Liu, L.*, Chen, L., & Lundstrom, C. (2023). “Secular Craton Evolution due to Cyclic Deformation of Its Dense Mantle Lithosphere”. Nature Geoscience, 1-9.
  6. Liu, L.* , Cao, Z., Morgan, J.*, Li, H., Yang, F., & Xu, Y. (2024). “Long-lived Northern Hemisphere Convergence Systems Driven by Upper-mantle Thermal Inhomogeneity”. Geology.

• Submitted
  1. Cao, Z., & Liu, L. “Western US Intraplate Deformation Controlled by the Complex Lithospheric Structure”. (In Revision, Nature Communications)
  2. Li, Y., Liu, L., Peng, D., & Cao, Z. “Cenozoic India-Asia Collision Driven by Mantle Dragging the Cratonic Root”. (In Revision, Nature Communications)
  3. Xie, S., Cao, Z., Liu, L., Yang, D., Liu, M., Li, Y., & Qi, R. “The Role of Plume-lithosphere Interaction in Hawaii-Emperor Chain Formation”. (In Revision, Nature Communications)
• In preparation
  1. Cao, Z., & Liu, L. “Continental Delamination Initiates Subduction and Supercontinent Breakup”.
  2. Stewart, A., Li, Y., Cao, Z., & Liu, L. “Hemispheric Dichotomy of Mantle Dynamics Revealed by Machine Learning”.