Research Themes — Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, geobiology, planetary habitability, global and planetary change through deep time
Methodological Approaches — Isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, paleontology
Analytical Techniques — Gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), basin analysis
Key Topics — Carbon and sulfur cycles, redox evolution and anoxic events, chemical weathering, atmospheric oxygenation, Snowball Earth, authigenesis, sediment-hosted ore deposits, early life evolution, and biomineralization
Only first-author papers are listed below for brevity and clarity. A complete publication list can be found on my Google Scholar profile.
Cui, H., et al., 2024. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Questioning the role of methane in the wake of a snowball Earth: Insights from isotopically anomalous cap dolostone cements with a complex diagenetic history. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 364, 195–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.002
Cui, H., et al., 2022. Precambrian Research
An authigenic response to Ediacaran surface oxidation: Remarkable micron-scale isotopic heterogeneity revealed by SIMS. Precambrian Research, 377, 106676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106676
Cui, H., et al., 2022. Journal of the Geological Society
Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S, and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event. Journal of the Geological Society, 179, jgs2021-081. https://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-081
Cui, H., et al., 2021. Global and Planetary Change
Deposition or diagenesis? Probing the Ediacaran Shuram excursion in South China by SIMS. Global and Planetary Change, 206, 103591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103591
Cui, H., et al., 2020. Precambrian Research
Global or regional? Constraining the origins of the middle Bambuí carbon cycle anomaly in Brazil. Precambrian Research, 348, 105861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105861
Cui, H., et al., 2020. Precambrian Research
Primary or secondary? A dichotomy of the strontium isotope anomalies in the Ediacaran carbonates of Saudi Arabia. Precambrian Research, 343, 105720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105720
Cui, H., et al., 2019. Geological Magazine
Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China. Geological Magazine, 156, 1924–1948. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756819000293
Cui, H., et al., 2018. Precambrian Research
The Neoproterozoic Hüttenberg δ13C anomaly: Genesis and global implications. Precambrian Research, 313, 242–262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.05.024
Cui, H., et al., 2018. American Mineralogist
Questioning the biogenicity of Neoproterozoic superheavy pyrite by SIMS. American Mineralogist, 103, 1362–1400. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6489
Cui, H., et al., 2018. Astrobiology (cover article)
Searching for the Great Oxidation Event in North America: A reappraisal of the Huronian Supergroup by SIMS sulfur four-isotope analysis. Astrobiology, 18, 519–538. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2017.1722
Cui, H., et al., 2017. Chemical Geology
Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 450, 59–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.12.010
Cui, H., et al., 2016. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Redox-dependent distribution of early macro-organisms: Evidence from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation in Arctic Siberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 461, 122–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.015
Cui, H., et al., 2016. Geobiology
Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals. Geobiology, 14, 344–363. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12178
Cui, H., et al., 2016. Sedimentary Geology
Phosphogenesis associated with the Shuram Excursion: Petrographic and geochemical observations from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China. Sedimentary Geology, 341, 134–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.05.008
Cui, H., et al., 2015.Chemical Geology
Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemostratigraphic (δ13C–δ34S–87Sr/86Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 405, 48–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.04.009