1. Shen, Y., Zhang, Q., Xu, Y., Li, M., Thiemens, M.H., 2024. Sulfur isotope anomalies in coal combustion: Applications to the present and early Earth environments. PNAS (in press).
2. Li, M., Xu, Y., Sun, L., Chen, J., Zhang, K., Li, D., Farquhar, J., Zhang, X., Sun, R., Macdonald, F.A., Grasby, S.E., Fu, Y., Shen, Y., 2023. Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth. Science Advances 9: eadh9502.
3. Pohl, A., Lu, Z., Lu, W., Stockey, R.G., Elrick, M., Li, M., Desrochers, A., Shen, Y., He, R., Finnegan, S., Ridgwell, A., 2021. Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation. Nature Geoscience 14: 868-873.
4. Jiang, S., Zhou, X., Sachs, J.P., Luo, W., Tu, L., Liu, X., Zeng, L., Peng, S., Yan, Q., Liu, F., Zheng, J., Zhang, J., Shen, Y., 2021. Central eastern China hydrological changes and ENSO-like variability over the past 1,800 yr. Geology 49: 1386-1390.
5. Chen, X., Jiang, Z., Shen, Y., Li, R., Fu, Y., Liu, J., Han, H., Liao, H., Cheng, X., Jones, D.B.A., Worden, H., González Abad, G., 2021. Chinese regulations are working - why is surface ozone over industrialized areas still high? Applying lessons from Northeast US air quality evolution. Geophysical Research Letters 48: e2021GL092816.
6. Li, M., Grasby, S.E., Wang, S.-J., Zhang, X., Wasylenki, L.E., Xu, Y., Sun, M., Beauchamp, B., Hu, D., Shen, Y., 2021. Nickel isotopes link Siberian Traps aerosol particles to the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications 12: 2024.
7. Hu, D., Li, M., Zhang, X., Turchyn, A.V., Gong, Y., Shen, Y., 2020. Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Nature Communications 11: 2297.
8. Lin, M., Zhang, X., Li, M., Xu, Y., Zhang, Z., Tao, J., Su, B., Liu, L., Shen Y., Thiemens, M.H., 2018. Five-S-isotope evidence of two distinct mass-independent sulfur isotope effects and implications for the modern and Archean atmospheres. PNAS 115: 8541-8546.
9. Li, D., Zhang, X., Hu, D., Chen, X., Huang, W., Zhang, X., Li, M., Qin, L., Peng, S., Shen, Y., 2018. Evidence of a large δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg depth gradient for deep-water anoxia during the late Cambrian SPICE event. Geology 46: 631-634.
10.Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G.A., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Stanley C. Finney, S.C., Shen, Y., 2018. Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation. Nature Geoscience 11: 510-514.
11.Lu, W., Ridgwell, A., Thomas, E., Hardisty, D.S., Luo, G., Algeo, T.J., Saltzman, M.R., Gill, B.C., Shen, Y., Hong-Fei Ling, Edwards, C.T., Whalen, M., Zhou, X., Gutchess, K.M., Li, J., Rickaby, R.E.M., Jenkyns, H.C., Lyons, T.W., Lenton, T., Kump, L.R., and Lu, Z., 2018. Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean. Science 361: 174-177.
12.Sun, H., Xiao, Y., Gao, Y., Zhang, G., Casey, J.F., Shen, Y., 2018. Rapid enhancement of chemical weathering recorded by extremely light seawater lithium isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary. PNAS 115: 3782-3787.
13.Zhang, G., Zhang, X., Hu, D., Li, D., Algeo, T.J., Farquhar, J., Henderson, C.M., Qin, L., Shen, M., Shen, D., Schoepfer, S.D., Chen, K., Shen, Y., 2017. Redox chemistry changes in the Panthalassic Ocean linked to the end-Permian mass extinction and delayed Early Triassic biotic recovery. PNAS 114: 1806-1810.
14.Zhang, G., Zhang, X., Li, D., Farquhar, J., Shen, S., Chen, X., Shen, Y., 2015. Widespread shoaling of sulfidic waters linked to the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction. Geology 43:1091-1094.
15.Shen, Y., Farquhar, J., Zhang, H., Masterson, A., Zhang, T., Wing, B.A., 2011. Multiple S-isotopic evidence for episodic shoaling of anoxic water during Late Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications 2: 210.
16.Zhang, T., Trela, W., Jiang, S-Y., Nielsen, J.K., Shen, Y., 2011. Major oceanic redox condition change correlated with the rebound of marine animal diversity during the Late Ordovician. Geology 39: 675-678.
17.Shen, S.Z., Crowley, J.L., Wang, Y., Bowring, S.A., Erwin, D.H., Sadler, P.M., Cao, C.Q., Rothman, D.H., Henderson, C.M., Ramezani, J.,Zhang, H., Shen, Y., Wang, X.D., Wang, W., Mu, L., Li, W.Z., Tang, Y.G., Liu, X.L., Liu, L.J., Zeng, Y., Jiang, Y.F., Jin, Y.G., 2011. Calibrating the end-Permian mass extinction. Science 334: 1367-1372.
18.Zhang, T., Shen, Y., Zhan, R., Shen, S., Chen, X., 2009. Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China. Geology 37: 299-302.
19.Nagy, R.M., Porter, S.M., Dehler, C.M., Shen, Y., 2009. Biotic turnover driven by eutrophication before the Sturtian low-latitude glaciation. Nature Geoscience 2: 415-418.
20.Shen, Y., Zhang, T., Hoffman, P.F., 2008. On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals. PNAS 105: 7376-7381.
21.Scott, C.,Lyons, T.W., Bekker, A., Shen, Y., Poulton, S.W.,Chu, X., Anbar, A.D., 2008. Tracing stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean. Nature 452: 456-459.
22.Nielsen, J.K., Shen, Y., 2004. Evidence for sulfidic deep water during the Late Permian in the East Greenland Basin. Geology 32: 1037-1040.
23.Shen, Y., Knoll, A.H., Walter, M.R., 2003. Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature 423: 632-635.
24.Shen, Y., Buick, R., Canfield, D.E., 2001. Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era. Nature 410: 77-81. (+Shen and Buick, 2004. Earth-Sci Rev 64: 243-272, and Shen et al., 2009. EPSL 279: 383-391).
25.Shen, Y., Schidlowski, M., 2000. New C isotope stratigraphy from southwest China: implications for the placement of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Yangtze Platform and global correlations. Geology 28: 623-626.