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  1. Late Ediacaran Subduction Initiation in the Southern Altaids

    Article • Journal of Earth Science, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bo Liu

  2. Apatite u-pb ages, trace elements, and in situ Sr-Nd isotopes and pyrite s isotopes of the Saima alkaline complex: Implications for the petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Nb-Ta-REE mineralization in Northeast China

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  3. Geology, Mineralization and Development Potential of Rare and Uncommon Earth Ore Deposits in Southwest China

    Article • Minerals, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Bo Liu

  4. Apatite U-Pb dating, trace element, in-situ Sr-Nd isotope insights into petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the niobium-rich Saima alkaline complex in NE China

    Article • January 2025, European Association of Geochemistry

    Dr Bo Liu

  5. First boron isotopes in the southern Jilin TTG series uncover a Neoarchean oceanic arc in the eastern North China Craton

    Article • Gondwana Research, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  6. Zircon U-Pb-Hf Isotopes and Whole-Rock Geochemistry of the “Kulumudi Formation” from the Laofengkou Area (West Junggar): Implications of the Construction of a Juvenile Arc in the Junggar–Balkhash Ocean

    Article • Minerals, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Bo Liu

  7. The Silurian–Devonian construction of active continental margin in southwestern Paleo-Asian Ocean witnesses the modification of fluvial system by early land plants

    Article • Gondwana Research, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  8. SA01: a new potential reference material for zircon in situ (U–Th)/He and U–Pb double dating

    Article • Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Bo Liu

  9. Late Carboniferous closure of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean: Insights from the early Permian post-accretionary magmatism in the Barleik Mountains of West Junggar, NW China

    Article • Lithos, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  10. Early-Middle Devonian adakitic magmatism generated by slab retreat in southern West Junggar, NW China: implications for tectonic correlation with central and East Kazakhstan

    Article • International Geology Review, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bo Liu

  11. Timing, Provenance, and Tectonic Implications of Ore-Hosting Metasedimentary Rocks in the Giant Liba Gold Deposit, West Qinling Belt, China

    Article • Minerals, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Bo Liu

  12. 额尔古纳地块韩家园子‒富林地区中生代火成岩的成因及其对蒙古‒鄂霍茨克洋演化的启示

    Article • Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences, January 2022, Editorial Office of Earth Science

    Dr Bo Liu

  13. Tracking the Tectonic Evolution of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean: A Case Study from the Post-Collisional Takergan Pluton in the West Junggar, Xinjiang

    Article • Journal of Earth Science, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bo Liu

  14. Source-to-sink system of Late Permian post-collisional stream-dominated alluvial fans under humid paleoclimate along the Irtysh-Zaisan suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  15. Early–Middle Permian plutons in the Langshan area, western Inner Mongolia, China, and their tectonic implications

    Article • Lithos, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  16. Geochronological and geochemical evidence for a Late Ordovician to Silurian arc–back-arc system in the northern Great Xing'an Range, NE China

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  17. An example of Phanerozoic continental crustal growth: The West Junggar Orogenic Belt, Northwest China

    Article • Lithos, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  18. Late Ordovician to early Silurian calc-alkaline magmatism in the Xiemisitai Mountains, northern West Junggar: a response to the subduction of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean

    Article • International Geology Review, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Bo Liu, Bao-Fu Han

  19. Identification of lateral inhomogeneity of arc basement by reconstructing the Late Devonian arc belt in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Article • Journal of Geodynamics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  20. Origin and tectonic significance of the Hoboksar ophiolitic mélange in northern West Junggar (NW China)

    Article • Lithos, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  21. Ediacaran to Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar Orogenic Belt, NW China, and implications for evolution of Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Article • Lithos, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  22. Late Carboniferous to Early Permian adakitic rocks and fractionated I ‐type granites in the southern West Junggar terrane, NW China : ...

    Article • Geological Journal, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Bo Liu

  23. The Ediacaran to Early Palaeozoic evolution of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean: A synthesis of the ophiolitic mélanges in the southern West Junggar terrane, NW China

    Article • Geological Journal, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Bo Liu

  24. 大兴安岭北部兴隆地区寒武纪侵入岩锆石U-Pb年代学、地球化学及其构造意义

    Article • Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences, January 2019, Editorial Office of Earth Science

    Dr Bo Liu

  25. Linking the southern West Junggar terrane to the Yili Block: Insights from the oldest accretionary complexes in West Junggar, NW China

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  26. The tectono-magmatic evolution of the West Junggar terrane (NW China) unravelled by U–Pb ages of detrital zircons in modern river sands

    Article • International Geology Review, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Bao-Fu Han, Dr Bo Liu

  27. Timing of the final closure of the Irtysh-Zaysan Ocean: New insights from the earliest stitching pluton in the northern West Junggar, NW China

    Article • Geological Journal, December 2017, Wiley

    Bao-Fu Han, Dr Bo Liu

  28. Closure Time of the Junggar-Balkhash Ocean: Constraints From Late Paleozoic Volcano-Sedimentary Sequences in the Barleik Mountains, West Junggar, NW China

    Article • Tectonics, December 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Bao-Fu Han, Dr Bo Liu

  29. Thrusting and exhumation of the southern Mongolian Plateau: Joint thermochronological constraints from the Langshan Mountains, western Inner Mongolia, China

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  30. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Early Carboniferous to the Late Permian Barleik plutons in the West Junggar (NW China)

    Article • Lithos, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  31. Tectonic attribution of the Langshan area in western Inner Mongolia and implications for the Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Western North China Craton: Evidence from LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb dating of the Langshan basement

    Article • Lithos, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  32. The Cambrian initiation of intra-oceanic subduction in the southern Paleo-Asian Ocean: Further evidence from the Barleik subduction-related metamorphic complex in the West Junggar region, NW China

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  33. Geochronology, geochemistry and origins of the Paleozoic–Triassic plutons in the Langshan area, western Inner Mongolia, China

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu

  34. When did the subduction first initiate in the southern Paleo-Asian Ocean: New constraints from a Cambrian intra-oceanic arc system in West Junggar, NW China

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Bo Liu