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Yaoling Niu

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Yaoling Niu (Chinese: 牛耀龄; born 15 October 1959) is a Chinese-born British and Australian geologist and geochemist. His research addresses mantle melting, the petrogenesis of abyssal peridotites, mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) and ocean island basalts (OIB), the oceanic lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB), and subduction initiation. Niu is Honorary Professor Emeritus at China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and was Professor of Earth Sciences at Durham University in the UK from 2004 to 2022. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers and is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and the Geological Society of London. [1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Niu was born in Lintao, Gansu Province, China. He earned a BSc in geology from Lanzhou University in 1982, with an undergraduate thesis on the wall-rock alteration of the Baiyin massive sulfide deposits. After graduation, he was employed by Lanzhou University as an assistant lecturer in economic geology. [4]

Niu moved to the United States for graduate study, completing a Master of Science in economic geology at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in 1988 under the supervision of Michael Lesher. He began his doctoral study at Northwestern University (Evanston) in 1988 before transferring to the University of Hawaii (Honolulu), where he completed his PhD in geology and geophysics in 1992 under the supervision of Rodey Batiza; his doctoral research used petrological methods to understand mid-ocean ridge magmatism [1][4][5][6].

Following his PhD, Niu held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Hawaiʻi and at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (1992–1993), where he worked with Charles Langmuir. [1][4]

Career

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Niu has held academic [psitions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. From 1993 to 2000 he was a lecturer and, later, a tenured senior lecturer in petrology, geochemistry, and economic geology at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) in Australia. He then held a Senior Research Fellowship of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom (2001–2003) and was an associate professor at the University of Houston in the United States (2003–2004). [1][4]

In December 2004, Niu joined Durham University as Professor of Earth Sciences, a position he held until his retirement in 2022. During his time at Durham he also held honorary and visiting professorships at Chinese institutions, including Lanzhou University, the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China University of Geosciences (Beijing). From 2023 to 2025 he was a research professor at Laoshan Laboratory in Qingdao, China, and since 2025 he has held the title of Honorary Professor Emeritus at the China University of Geosciences (Beijing). [1][4]

Niu's research has involved extensive fieldwork, including repeated visits to the Tibetan Plateau, and participation in international oceanographic research cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. [1][4] These include three expeditions of the Ocean Drilling Program: Leg 142 at the East Pacific Rise (1992) [7], Leg 163 off southeast Greenland (1995) [8], and Leg 176 at the Southwest Indian Ridge (1997). [9]

Research

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Niu describes himself as a field geologist who uses petrology and geochemistry to study large-scale Earth processes, integrating field observations, laboratory analyses, and global datasets with core physical and chemical principles. A recurring theme of his work is the argument that large-scale Earth processes are governed by a small set of physical boundary conditions: specifically, lithosphere thickness, buoyancy, and seafloor spreading rate, with Earth's long-term cooling as the ultimate geodynamic driver. [10][11][12][13]

Mid-ocean ridge magmatism and MORB genesis

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Niu's early research argued that the extent of sub-ridge mantle melting increases with plate spreading rate [11]. He also proposed that the global correlation between mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) chemistry and ridge axial depth is primarily controlled by compositional variation in the fertile mantle source, which affects mineralogy, density, and solidus, rather than by large variations in mantle temperature [12], in contrast to a widely reference model. By normalizing MORB compositions to mantle-equilibrium conditions, he related the extent of melting to spreading rate and ridge depth. [6][11][12][14]

Niu further argued that MORB chemical trends differ between slow- and fast-spreading ridges [15], and that at slow-spreading segments mantle compositional variation influences not only magma chemistry but also the extent and depth of melting, mantle flow, ridge morphology, and segmentation [16]. His work on abyssal peridotites proposed that these rocks are not simple MORB melting residues but have been modified by olivine addition and incompatible-element refertilization during melt ascent, and he developed a quantitative description of polybaric decompression melting in the spinel peridotite stability field. [17][18]

Lithosphere thickness as a control on mantle melting (the “lid effect”)

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In a 2021 Earth-Science Reviews paper, Niu summarized the findings by himself and co-authors over the years and showed that lithosphere thickness acts as a primary global control on mantle melting at all tectonic settings, mid-ocean ridges, ocean islands, continental interiors, and volcanic arcs. In this framework, decompression melting terminates at the base of the lithosphere, so that melt fraction, extraction depth, and basalt chemistry record lithosphere thickness at the time of eruption; Niu argued that interpretations invoking distinct mantle sources or large variations in mantle potential temperature may instead reflect variations in lithosphere thickness. The proposal drew a published comment from Michele Lustrino, Gillian Foulger, Malcolm Hole, and James Natland, to which Niu replied in the same journal with a key phrase of “paradigm shift", reflecting ongoing debate on other potential controls in addition to the roles of lithosphere thickness.[10][19][20][21]

Oceanic lithosphere, the LAB, and the oceanic Moho

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Niu proposed that the oceanic lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) corresponds to an amphibole dehydration solidus, characterized by an isotherm of about 1100 °C at roughly 3 GPa [21][22]. He used this model to explain why LAB depth increases with seafloor age for young seafloor but remains approximately constant beneath older seafloor—an observation that has proven puzzling, and argued that oceanic lithosphere is mechanically decoupled from the underlying asthenosphere, with the degree of decoupling increasing with spreading rate. He described this decoupling as a requirement for the operation of plate tectonics.[23]

Niu also challenged the assumption that seismically defined oceanic crust always represents intact magmatic crust. He argued that at slow- and ultraslow-spreading ridges the seismic crust is a mixture of serpentinized mantle peridotite and dispersed magmatic material, so that the Moho in these settings marks a serpentinization front rather than a magmatic boundary as originally suggested by Harry Hess in 1962 [17][24][25]. To test the petrological nature of the Moho, he advocated drilling intact fast-spreading Pacific crust and helped organize a 2024 international workshop on drilling through the ocean crust using the Chinese research vessel Meng Xiang. [26][27].

Ocean island basalts and mantle heterogeneity

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Niu questioned the model that attributes the geochemical enrichment of ocean island basalts (OIB) primarily to recycled subducted oceanic crust. He argued that recycled oceanic crust is compositionally too depleted to account for the enriched incompatible-element signatures of OIB, that subducted oceanic crust is too dense to rise in bulk from the lower to the upper mantle, and that mantle plumes rising from the deep mantle would be peridotitic rather than basaltic in bulk composition. Instead, he proposed that the enriched signatures in OIB reflect melting of low-degree melt-metasomatized mantle peridotite, and he interpreted certain olivine trace-element variations previously read as evidence for recycled crust as a pressure effect linked to lithosphere thickness.[21][28]

He also reported that the element ratios Zr/Hf and Nb/Ta, long assumed to be nearly constant, vary substantially in MORB, seamount lavas, and abyssal peridotites, and linked these variations to low-degree melt metasomatism as a mechanism for generating upper-mantle heterogeneity [29]. Regarding the large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the mantle, Niu hypothesized that they are accumulations of subducted oceanic crust and that their approximately antipodal positioning represents optimal moment of inertia contributing to their long-term stability in the spinning Earth. [30]

Subduction initiation and plate tectonics

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Niu proposed that subduction initiation is driven by lateral compositional buoyancy contrasts within the lithosphere, rather than by spontaneous or externally forced processes in normal oceanic lithosphere. He argued that such contrasts occur at the edges of oceanic plateaus and at passive continental margins, and that subduction therefore preferentially begins at these boundaries—a model he later developed further as a framework describing subduction initiation from lithospheric rupture through sustained slab sinking [31][32]. In broader analyses of plate driving forces, he argued that slab pull dominates over ridge push and treated continental drift and passive-margin formation as responses to trench retreat [32][33], applying this reasoning to the India–Asia collision and the rise of the Tibetan Plateau. [34]

Continental crust and lithosphere evolution

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Niu challenged the classic island-arc model of continental crust growth, noting that bulk continental crust is andesitic whereas primary arc crust is basaltic, and proposed instead that continental collision zones are primary sites of net continental crust growth, a hypothesis he tested through studies of syncollisional granitoids along Phanerozoic orogens in China [35][36]. He also argued that cratonic lithosphere thinning, such as that in eastern China since the Mesozoic, results from basal hydration weakening driven by water released from a stagnant paleo-Pacific slab, rather than from lithospheric delamination [33][36][37], and hypothesized that the Chinese continental shelf beneath the East and South China Seas has an exotic, micro-continental origin. [36]

Research philosophy

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Niu has described himself as an independent thinker who prefers to work on problems where prevailing models appear inconsistent with observations, and who regards scientific research as a self-correcting process. He has summarized his approach with the statement that “objectiveness and open-mindedness are requisite twins for insights and discoveries.”[4][10][20]

Honours and awards

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  • Fellow, Geological Society of America (elected 2006) [1]
  • Fellow, Geological Society of London (elected 2008) [1]
  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (elected 2019) [1][2]
  • Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022 [1]
  • American Geophysical Union College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer, 2025–2026 [38]
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow, Durham University, 2009–2010 [1]
  • Christopherson/Knott Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, 2010 [1]
  • Outstanding Overseas Scientist Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2002 [4]

Academic service

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Niu has held a number of editorial and scientific-governance roles:

  • Director, Geochemical Society (2006–2009) [39]
  • Chair, IUGS Commission on Solid Earth Composition and Evolution (2004–2008) [40][41][42]
  • Executive Editor, Chinese Science Bulletin (2003–2014) and Science Bulletin (2015–2017) [43]
  • Associate Editor, Geoscience Frontiers (2025–present) [44]
  • Guest editor of special issues of the Journal of Petrology [45][46][47], Lithos [42][48], Chemical Geology, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta [4]
  • Lead organizer of international symposia, including Royal Society-China Joint Project  Symposium (Tianjin, 2002) [49], the Michael J. O'Hara symposia (Nice 2003 [45], Prague 2015 [47]), the Kevin Burke Symposium (Houston 2004), IUGS-SECE conference on the Origin, Evolution and Present State of Subcontinental Lithosphere (Beijing, 2005) [42], the Peter J. Wyllie Symposium (Davos 2009) [46], Chinese Annual National Conference on Petrology and Geodynamics (Lanzhou, 2012) [50], and a 2024 workshop on ocean-crust drilling in Guangzhou [26][27]

Teaching and institution-building

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Niu taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochemistry, ore deposits, thermodynamics, global tectonics, and field geology in China, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom between 1982 and 2022. He has supervised 14 PhD students and 32 MSc students to completion [4].

In China, Niu contributed to institution-building at Lanzhou University, where between 2010 and 2013 he helped develop the School of Earth Sciences and established the Gansu Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources in Western China [51], and he established or co-established geochemical analytical facilities at institutions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China, including a laboratory at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao [4][52].

Selected publications

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Niu has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. Representative works include:

  • Niu, Y.; Batiza, R. (1993). “Chemical variation trends at fast and slow spreading ridges.” Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 7887-7902
  • Niu, Y. (1997). “Mantle melting and melt extraction processes beneath ocean ridges: Evidence from abyssal peridotites.” Journal of Petrology 38, 1047-1074.
  • Niu, Y.; Hékinian, R. (1997). “Spreading-rate dependence of the extent of mantle melting beneath ocean ridges.” Nature 385, 326–329.
  • Niu, Y.; Bideau, D.; Hékinian, R.; Batiza, R. (2001). “Mantle compositional control on the extent of melting, crust production, gravity anomaly, ridge morphology, and ridge segmentation: a case study at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 33 – 35°N.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 186, 383-399.
  • Niu, Y.; Regelous, M.; Wendt, J.I.; Batiza, R.; O’Hara, M.J. (2002). “Geochemistry of near-EPR seamounts: Importance of source vs. process and the origin of enriched mantle component.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 199, 327-345.
  • Niu, Y.; O’Hara, M.J. (2003). “Origin of ocean island basalts: A new perspective from petrology, geochemistry and mineral physics considerations.” Journal of Geophysical Research 108, 2209, doi:10.1029/2002JB002048, 19 pp (pages ECV 5 1-19).
  • Niu, Y.; O’Hara, M.J.; Pearce, J.A. (2003). “Initiation of subduction zones as a consequence of lateral compositional buoyancy contrast within the lithosphere: a petrologic perspective.” Journal of Petrology 44, 851–866.
  • Niu, Y. (2004). “Bulk-rock major and trace element compositions of abyssal peridotites: implications for mantle melting, melt extraction and post-melting processes beneath ocean ridges.” Journal of Petrology 45, 2423–2458.
  • Niu, Y.; Hékinian, R. (2004). “Ridge suction drives plume-ridge interactions (Chapter 9)”. In Oceanic Hotspots, edited by R. Hékinian and P. Stoffers, Springer-Verlag, New York, p. 285-307.
  • Niu, Y.; O’Hara, M.J. (2008). “Global correlations of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth: a new perspective.” Journal of Petrology 49, 633–664.
  • Humphreys, E.R.; Niu, Y. (2009). “On the composition of ocean island basalts (OIB): The effects of lithospheric thickness variation and mantle metasomatism.” Lithos 112, 118-136.
  • Niu, Y.; Wilson, M.; Humphreys, E.R.; O’Hara, M.J. (2011). “The origin of intra-plate ocean island basalts (OIB): the lid effect and its geodynamic implications.” Journal of Petrology 52, 1443–1468.
  • Niu, Y. (2012). “Earth processes cause Zr-Hf and Nb-Ta fractionations, but why and how?” RSC Advances 2, 3587-3591.
  • Niu, Y.; Zhao, Z.D.; Zhu, D.C.; Mo, X.X. (2013). “Continental collision zones are primary sites for net continental crust growth – a testable hypothesis.” Earth-Science Reviews 127, 96–110.
  • Niu, Y. (2014). “Geological understanding of plate tectonics: Basic concepts, illustrations, examples and new perspectives”. Global Tectonics and Metallogeny 10, 23-46.
  • Niu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Xue, Q.Q.; Shao, F.L. et al. (2015). “Exotic origin of the Chinese continental shelf:  New insights into the tectonic evolution of the western Pacific and eastern China since the Mesozoic.” Science Bulletin, 60, 1598-1616.
  • Niu, Y. (2016). “The meaning of global ocean ridge basalt major element compositions.” Journal of Petrology 57, 2081-2104.
  • Niu, Y.: Green, D.H. (2018). “The petrological control on the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath ocean basins.” Earth-Science Reviews 185, 301-307.
  • Niu, Y. (2021). “Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth.” Earth-Science Reviews 217, 103614.
  • Mazuir, R.A.B.; Niu, Y. (2023). “Global volcanic arc magma composition correlates with thickness of both arc crust (Moho depth) and arc lithosphere (LAB depth): A revealing message on arc basement histories and arc magmatism.” Geoscience Frontiers 14, 101609.
  • Niu, Y. (2026). “Rise of the Tibetan Plateau results from progressive northward underthrusting of the buoyant Indian continental lithosphere.” Science Bulletin 71, 2128-2132.
  • Niu, Y.; Chen, Y.; Sun, P.; Huang, H. et al. (2027). “The C3-SI framework: A Newtonian model for compositional-contrast-controlled subduction initiation.” Geoscience Frontiers 18, 102427.

Research support

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Niu acknowledges his career-long support for his global geoscience research by the US NSF, Australian ARC, UK NERC, Chinese NSF, The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust, China Geological Survey, Chinese Academy of Sciences, The University of Queensland, Cardiff University, University of Houston, Lanzhou University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Durham University and Laoshan Laboratory. [26][32]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Yaoling Niu Durham University webpage".
  2. 1 2 "2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced".
  3. ↑ "Google Scholar".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Yaoling Niu Durham University CV".
  5. ↑ "Batiza, R.; Smith, T.L.; Niu, Y. (1989). "Geologic and petrologic evolution of seamounts near the EPR based on submersible and camera study." Marine Geophysical Researches 11, 169–236".
  6. 1 2 "Niu, Y. (1992). Mid-ocean ridge magmatism: Style of mantle upwelling, partialmelting, crustal level processes, and spreading rate dependence.A petrologic approach".
  7. ↑ "Batiza, R., Storm, M.A., Allan, J.F. and Shipboard Scientific Party (including Yaoling Niu), 1993. ODP Leg 142 Preliminary Report East Pacific Rise, 12 January – 18 March 1992" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "Larsen, H.C., Dunean, R.S., Allan, J.F. and ODP Leg 163 shipboard party (including Yaoling Niu), 1999. ODP Leg163 Preliminary Report Southeast Greenland, 3 September=7 October 1995".
  9. ↑ "Dick, H.J.B., Natland, H.H., Miller, J. and ODP Leg 176 shipboard party (including Yaoling Niu), 1999. ODP Leg 176 Preliminary Report Return to Hole 735B, 8 October – 8 December 1997".
  10. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y. (2021). "Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth." Earth-Science Reviews 217, 103614".
  11. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; Hékinian, R. (1997). "Spreading-rate dependence of the extent of mantle melting beneath ocean ridges." Nature 385, 326–329".
  12. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; O'Hara, M.J. (2008). "Global correlations of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth: a new perspective." Journal of Petrology 49, 633–664".
  13. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2020). "On the cause of continental breakup: A simple analysis in terms of driving mechanisms of plate tectonics and mantle plumes". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 194, 104367".
  14. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2016). "The meaning of global ocean ridge basalt major element compositions." Journal of Petrology 57, 2081–2104".
  15. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Batiza, R. (1993). "Chemical variation trends at fast and slow spreading ridges." Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 7887–7902".
  16. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Bideau, D.; Hékinian, R.; Batiza, R. (2001). "Mantle compositional control on the extent of melting, crust production, gravity anomaly, ridge morphology, and ridge segmentation: a case study at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 33 – 35°N." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 186, 383-399".
  17. 1 2 "Niu, Y. (1997). "Mantle melting and melt extraction processes beneath ocean ridges: Evidence from abyssal peridotites." Journal of Petrology 38, 1047-1074".
  18. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2004). "Bulk-rock major and trace element compositions of abyssal peridotites." Journal of Petrology 45, 2423–2458".
  19. ↑ "Lustrino, M.; Foulger, G.R.; Hole, M.; Natland, J.H. (2022). "Constraints on the formation of basaltic magmas. Comment on 'Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting…' by Niu Y. (2021)." Earth-Science Reviews 226, 103924".
  20. 1 2 "Niu, Y. (2022). "Paradigm shift for controls on basalt magmatism: discussion with Lustrino et al." Earth-Science Reviews 226, 103943".
  21. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; Wilson, M.; Humphreys, E.R.; and O'Hara, M.J. (2011). "The origin of intra-plate ocean island basalts (OIB): The lid effect and its geodynamic implications." Journal of Petrology 52, 1443-1468".
  22. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Green, D.H. (2018). "The petrological control on the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath ocean basins." Earth-Science Reviews 185, 301–307".
  23. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2024). "Oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere decoupling is required for the functioning of plate tectonics." Science Bulletin 69, 3159–3162".
  24. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2025). "Do we really need to drill through the intact ocean crust?" Geoscience Frontiers 16, 101954".
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  26. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y. (2026). "Using D/V Meng Xiang to drill intact magmatic crust in the Pacific to reveal the petrological nature of the oceanic Moho." Geoscience Frontiers 17, 102211".
  27. 1 2 "Xu, Y.; Niu, Y.; Zhang, X.; Chen, T. et al. (2025). "D/V Meng Xiang is coming to revive the 60-year-old dream of Moho drilling." Science Bulletin 70, 2023–2024".
  28. ↑ "Niu, Y.; O'Hara, M.J. (2003). "Origin of ocean island basalts: a new perspective from petrology, geochemistry and mineral physics considerations." Journal of Geophysical Research 108, 2209".
  29. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2012). "Earth processes cause Zr-Hf and Nb-Ta fractionations, but why and how?" RSC Advances 2, 3587-3591".
  30. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2018). "Origin of the LLSVPs at the base of the mantle as a consequence of plate tectonics." Geoscience Frontiers 9, 1265–1278".
  31. ↑ "Niu, Y.; O'Hara, M.J.; Pearce, J.A. (2003). "Initiation of subduction zones as a consequence of lateral compositional buoyancy contrast within the lithosphere." Journal of Petrology 44, 851–866".
  32. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; Chen, Y.; Sun, P.; Huang, H.; Shen, F. (2026). "The C³-SI framework: a Newtonian model for compositional-contrast-controlled subduction initiation." Geoscience Frontiers 17, 102427".
  33. 1 2 "Niu, Y.L. (2014). "Geological understanding of plate tectonics: Basic concepts, illustrations, examples and new perspectives." Global Tectonics and Metallogeny 10, 23-46".
  34. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2026). "Rise of the Tibetan Plateau results from progressive northward underthrusting of the buoyant Indian continental lithosphere." Science Bulletin 71, 2128–2132".
  35. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Zhao, Z.; Zhu, D.; Mo, X. (2013). "Continental collision zones are primary sites for net continental crust growth – a testable hypothesis." Earth-Science Reviews 127, 96–110".
  36. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Xue, Q.; Shao, F. et al. (2015). "Exotic origin of the Chinese continental shelf: new insights into the tectonic evolution of the western Pacific and eastern China since the Mesozoic." Science Bulletin 60, 1598–1616".
  37. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2006). Continental lithospheric thinning results from hydration weakening, not "delamination", and is a special consequence of plate tectonics, for "mantleplume.org"".
  38. ↑ "2025-2026 AGU College of Fellows Distinguished Lecture Series".
  39. ↑ "Geochemical News. (2006). "Meet the New GS Directors"" (PDF).
  40. ↑ "2005/2006 Report of SECE to IUGS" (PDF).
  41. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Song, S.; Zhang, L. (2005). "The Origin, Evolution and Present State of Subcontinental Lithosphere – an IUGS-SECE conference report". Episodes 28, 209" (PDF).
  42. 1 2 3 "Niu, Y.; Song, S. (edited) (2007). "The origin, evolution and present state of continental lithosphere." Lithos 96, 1-324".
  43. ↑ "Niu, Y. (2006). Editor's note (byline: "Yaoling Niu, Executive Editor", p. 1017) to "Global warming: Take action or wait" by Wallace S. Broecker. Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 1018-1029" (PDF).
  44. ↑ "Geoscience Frontiers Editorial board".
  45. 1 2 "Niu, Y.; Herzberg, C.; Wilson, M., (2004). "Magma generation and evolution in the Earth – A volume in honour of the work of Michael J. O'Hara, on the occasion of his 70th birthday (foreword)". Journal of Petrology 45, 2347-2348".
  46. 1 2 "Niu, Y.; Wilson, M. (2011). "Magma generation and evolution and global tectonics: A volume in honor of Peter J. Wyllie for his life-long contributions to understanding how the Earth works by means of experimental petrology (foreword)." Journal of Petrology 52, 1239-1242".
  47. 1 2 "Niu, Y.; Wilson, M. (2016). "In honor and memory of Michael J. O'Hara for his life-long contributions to understanding the working of the Earth and other planets by means of petrology and geochemistry." Journal of Petrology 57, 2079-2080".
  48. ↑ "Niu, Y. (edited).(2009). "Recent developments on seafloor petrology and tectonics: A volume in honour of Roger Hékinian for his life-long contributions to marine petrology and tectonics." Lithos 112, 1-162".
  49. ↑ "Royal Society-China Joint Project Symposium (Tianjin, 2002)" (PDF).
  50. ↑ "Chinese Annual National Conference on Petrology and Geodynamics (Lanzhou, 2012)" (PDF).
  51. ↑ "Lanzhou University School of Earth Sciences Leaders".
  52. ↑ "Niu, Y.; Gong, H.; Wang, X. et al. (2017). "Some key problems on the petrogenesis of seafloor basalts, abyssal peridotites and geodynamics: A non-traditional isotope approach." Advances in Earth Science 32, 111-127" (PDF).
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