Research Interest

·     Tectonics-magmatism-sedimentology associated with the opening and closing of marginal seas

·     Geochemical process of subduction recycle

Projects

·     Source metasomatism of the East Taiwan Ophiolite and its implications on the dehydration and fusion of the South China Sea subducting slab (41902225), National Natural Science Foundation of China -Youth Science Fund Project, 2020.01-2022.12, RMB 0.27 million, Project Leader

·     Evolutions of the South China Sea in the Tectonic Backgrounds of Western Pacific (2018YFE0202403)👐🏿，National Key Research and Development Program of China (sub-project), 2019.08-2022.07, RMB 1.76 million, Team Member

Publications

·     Yu, M.*, Yumul Jr, G.P., Dilek, Y., Yan, Y., Huang, C.-Y.*. (2022). Diking of various slab melts beneath forearc spreading center and age constraints of the subducted slab. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 579: 117367.

·     Yu, M., Dilek, Y., Yumul Jr, G.P., Yan, Y.*, Dimalanta C.B., Huang, C.-Y. (2020). Slab-controlled elemental–isotopic enrichments during subduction initiation magmatism and variations in forearc chemostratigraphy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 538: 116217.

·     Yu, M., Yan, Y.*, Huang, C-Y., Zhang, X., Tian Z., Chen W., Santosh, M. (2018). Opening of the South China Sea and Upwelling of the Hainan Plume. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(6): 2600-2609.

·     Yu, M., Yan, Y.*, Huang, C.-Y., Liu, H., Zhang, X., Lan, Q., Chen, W., Qian, K. (2015). Philippine ophiolites and their tectonic significance. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 35(6), 53-71. (Chinese with English abstract)