I obtained my Ph.D. (2011) from Seoul National University, South Korea, trained as a carbonate sedimentologist by S. K. Chough, and continued my postdoctoral research there until 2012. I then returned to China and joined the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS).
During my tenure at NIGPAS, I was funded multiple times by P. M. Myrow from the Colorado College to conduct collaborative research in the USA. From 2014 to 2017, I pursued postdoctoral research with I. P. Montañez at the University of California, Davis to learn sedimentary geochemistry and Earth System Science. In 2018 I returned to NIGPAS, where I now lead a research group focusing on deep-time sedimentary systems and paleo-environments.
I’ve been serving as the executive associate editor of Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, and editorial member of several journals including Sedimentary Geology and Journal of Palaeogeography. I am currently the vice-chair of Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, and council member of the International Society of Palaeogeography and Chinese Association of Sedimentologists. Awarded the “Sun Shu Prize China” by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) in 2024.
I engage in interdisciplinary research that integrates field sedimentology, sedimentary petrology, integrative stratigraphy, and sedimentary geochemistry, aiming to investigate Earth’s climate in deep time and co-evolution of life and environments. More Recently, my work has centered on the global carbon cycle and Earth's surface system during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, the Earth’s penultimate icehouse.
(*corresponding author, #graduate students/postdocs)
2026
Yutian Zhong#, Biao Gao, Wenli Yang#, Wenkun Qie, Jitao Chen*, 2026. Investigating marine barium cycling during the late Paleozoic greenhouse-icehouse transition using carbonate barium isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, published online Feb. 10, 2026.
Wenli Yang#, Jitao Chen*, Chaosheng Yue#, Junpeng Zhang, Yuping Qi, Xiang-dong Wang, Shu-zhong Shen, 2026. Enhanced nitrogen fixation as a result of short-lived global warming and marine anoxia in the Late Pennsylvanian icehouse climate. Global and Planetary Change, 256, 105134.
2025
Yutian Zhong#, Jitao Chen*, Sheng-Ao Liu, Chengshuai Yuan, Biao Gao, Terry T. Isson, Thomas J. Algeo, Qingyi Sheng, Bo Chen, Genming Luo, Xiang-dong Wang, Wenkun Qie, 2025. Zinc isotope perspective on global carbon cycling during onset of the Late Paleozoic icehouse.Geology, 53 (2), 99–104.
Biao Gao, Guozhen Xu, Wenli Yang#, Jitao Chen*, 2025. Disentangling continental weathering during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL117395.
Bing Shen*, Jitao Chen*, Xianguo Lang*, Hao Fang, Meng Ning, Haoran Ma, Liang Hu, 2025. Carbonate sedimentary geochemistry: Influence of sedimentary processes and benthic flux. Science China Earth Sciences, 68 (7), 2094–2119.
Chaosheng Yue#, Jitao Chen*, Wenli Yang#, Biao Gao, Keyi Hu, Yuping Qi, Xiangdong Wang, 2025, Sedimentary response and global correlation of the late Pennsylvanian warming event. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 43 (4), 1308–1321 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Qingyi Sheng, Jitao Chen, Xiangdong Wang, 2025. Middle to Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian foraminifers from the Dianzishang section, South China: Constraints on the Visean-Serpukhovian boundary and implications for biostratigraphic correlation across the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 287, 106601.
2024
Jitao Chen*, Wenjie Li, Paul M. Myrow, 2024. Precambrian to Lower Paleozoic Depositional Strata of the Western Margin of the North China Block, 759-807pp, in X. Hu (Ed.) Field Trip Guidebook on Chinese Sedimentary Geology, Science Press, Beijing & Springer, 1000pp.
Biao Gao#, Jitao Chen*, Wenli Yang#, Hao Xin#, Xiangdong Wang, 2024. Sedimentary processes of the Lower Permian Dingjiazhai Formation in the Baoshan Block. Palaeoworld, 33, 664–678.
Aihua Yang, Bo Chen, Zhixin Sun, Rosalie Tostevin, Tianchen He, Xi Chen, Jitao Chen, Miao Lu, Chunlin Hu, Shengxian Du, Jun Chen, Wenjun Jiao, Maoyan Zhu, 2024. Shallow ocean deoxygenation drove trilobite turnover during the late Cambrian SPICE event. Geology, 52, 661–666.
Yangfan Li, Fei Li, Gregory E. Webb, Jitao Chen, 2024. Intense intrusion of low-oxygen waters into mid-Cambrian surface ocean carbonate factories. Chemical Geology, 669, 122360.
Shengchao Yang, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Graham A. Shields, Ying Zhou, Chao Li, Jitao Chen, Weiqiang Li, Na Li, Jian Cao, Linna Zhang, Zongyuan Sun, Shuzhong Shen, 2024. Steep oceanic DIC δ13C depth gradient during the Hirnantian Glaciation. Earth-Science Reviews, 255, 104840.
Xianguo Lang, Bing Shen, Jitao Chen, Matthew Dodd, 2024. Editorial preface to special issue: The Earth System during icehouse climate modes: evidence from glacial records in China. Global and Planetary Change, 236, 104435.
Bing Luo, Xi Hua Zhang, Yan Gui Chen, Dong Xun Yuan, Xiang Dong Wang, Yu Kun Shi, Xin Yi Ma, Wen Qi Wang, Zhang Shuai Hou, Jitao Chen, Shu Zhong Shen, 2024. The Permian and its biota in the southern margin of the Sichuan Basin. Journal of Stratigraphy, 48 (03) 318–328 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Wenkun Qie, Kun Liang, Wen Guo, Biao Gao, Junjun Song, Bo Chen, Pu Huang, Li Qiao, Honghe Xu, Jitao Chen, Yucong Sun, Yichun Zhang, 2024. Devonian integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences, 67(4): 1036–1070.
Bo-heng Shen, Zhang-shuai Hou, Xiang-dong Wang, Qiong Wu, Hua Zhang, Jitao Chen, Dong-xun Yuan, Bing Hu, Bei-lei Sun, Shu-zhong Shen*, 2024. Quantitative palaeogeographical reconstruction of the North China Block during the Carboniferous and Permian transition: Implications for coal accumulation and source rock development. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 640, 112102.
Yuze Huang#, Yuping Qi, Qiulai Wang, Le Yao, Jitao Chen, 2024. Latest Devonian–Early Mississippian conodont biostratigraphy in the Naqing section, Guizhou, South China. Palaeoworld, 33, 307–327.
Kun Liang, Yi-Chun Zhang, Jitao Chen, Mao Luo, Wen Guo, Wen-Kun Qie, 2024. Middle Middle Devonian (Givetian) coral-stromatoporoid patch reefs from the Lazhuglung Formation, Xizang (Tibet) and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications. Palaeoworld, 33, 612–623.
Shuzhong Shen*, Feifei Zhang, Wenqian Wang, Xiangdong Wang, Junxuan Fan, Jitao Chen, Bo Wang, Jian Cao, Shiling Yang, Hua Zhang, Gaojun Li, Tao Deng, Xianhua Li, Jun Chen, 2024. Deep-time major biological and climatic events versus global changes: progresses and challenges, Chinese Science Bulletin, 69 (2), 268–285 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
2023
Jitao Chen*, 2023. Origin of Cambrian flat-pebble conglomerate mounds in the North China Platform. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 41(6), 1662–1672 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Yutian Zhong#, Jitao Chen*, Biao Gao, Wenli Yang#, Chaosheng Yue#, Xiangdong Wang, Shuzhong Shen, 2023. Carbon-water cycles during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Reviews and prospects. Chinese Science Bulletin, 68, 1544–1556 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Wenli Yang#, Jitao Chen*, Biao Gao, Yutian Zhong#, Xing Huang, Yue Wang*, Yuping Qi, Kui-Shu Shen, Horng-Sheng Mii, Xiang-dong Wang, Shu-zhong Shen, 2023. Sedimentary facies and carbon isotopes of the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian in South China: implications for icehouse to greenhouse transition. Global and Planetary Change, 221, 104051.
Hao Xin#, Jitao Chen*, Biao Gao, Fei Li, Paul M. Myrow, 2023. Spatio-temporal distribution of the Cambrian maceriate reefs across the North China Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 614, 111429.
Wenkun Qie, Junpeng Zhang, Genming Luo, Thomas J. Algeo, Bo Chen, Lei Xiang, Kun Liang, Xianyi Liu, Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann, Jitao Chen, Xiangdong Wang, 2023. Enhanced continental weathering as a trigger for the end-Devonian Hangenberg Crisis. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102640.
Wei Yuan, Mu Liu, Daizhao Chen, Yao-Wu Xing, Robert A. Spicer, Jitao Chen, Theodore R. Them II, Xun Wang, Shizhen Li, Chuan Guo, Gongjing Zhang, Liyu Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xinbin Feng, 2023. Mercury isotopes show vascular plants had colonized land extensively by the early Silurian. Science Advances, 9, eade9510.
Wenjie Li, Zhongyang Chen, Clive Burrett, Xiang Fang, Chao Li, Mongkol Udchachon, Jitao Chen, Yuandong Zhang, 2023, Coupled sedimentary and δ13C records of western Thailand and South China from Middle to Late Ordovician: Sea-level and climate changes prior to the Hirnantian glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 625, 111686.
Paul M. Myrow, Michael Hasson, John F. Taylor, Lidya Tarhan, David A. Fike, Gerardo Ramirez, George Fowlkes, Leonid E. Popov, Hangyu Liu, Jitao Chen, 2023. Revised Paleozoic depositional history of the central Rocky Mountains (Utah and Colorado). Sedimentary Geology, 449, 106373.
2022
Jitao Chen*, Isabel P. Montañez*, Shuang Zhang, Terry T. Isson, Sophia I. Macarewich, Noah J. Planavsky, Feifei Zhang, Sofia Rauzi, Kierstin Daviau, Le Yao, Yu-ping Qi, Yue Wang, Jun-xuan Fan, Christopher J. Poulsen, Ariel D. Anbar, Shu-zhong Shen, Xiang-dong Wang*, 2022. Marine anoxia linked to abrupt global warming during Earth’s penultimate icehouse.PNAS, 119 (19), e2115231119.
Jitao Chen*, Bo Chen, Isabel P. Montañez, 2022. Carboniferous isotope stratigraphy in The Carboniferous Timescale (edited by Lucas, S.G., Schneider, J.W., Wang, X., and Nikolaeva, S.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 512 (1), 197–211.
Wenjie Li#, Jitao Chen*, Anne J. Hakim, Paul M. Myrow, 2022. Middle Ordovician mass-transport deposits from the western Inner Mongolia, China: mechanisms and implications for basin evolution. Sedimentology, 69, 1301–1338.
Biao Gao#, Jitao Chen*, Xing Huang, Hao Xin#, Quanfeng Zheng, 2022. Resolving the tectonic setting of South China in the late Paleozoic. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099809.
Biao Gao#*, Jitao Chen*, Wenkun Qie, Xiangdong Wang, 2022. Revisiting the paleogeographic framework of northeastern Gondwana in the late Paleozoic: implications from detrital zircon analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 434, 106144.
Biao Gao#, Hao Xin#, Xing Huang, Keyi Hu, Quanfeng Zheng, Jitao Chen*, 2022. A record of enhanced water cycle in the late Paleozoic icehouse. Global and Planetary Change, 218, 103957.
Chengshuai Yuan, Sheng-Ao Liu, Jitao Chen, Linhao Fang, 2022. Zinc isotopic evidence for enhanced continental weathering and organic carbon burial during the late Cambrian SPICE event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 608, 111302.
Le Yao, Ganqing Jiang, Horng-sheng Mii, Yifang Lin, Markus Aretz, Jitao Chen, Yuping Qi, Wei Lin, Qiulai Wang, Xiangdong Wang, 2022. Global cooling initiated the Middle-Late Mississippian biodiversity crisis. Global and Planetary Change, 215, 103852.
2021
Wenli Yang#, Yutian Zhong#, Hao Xin#, Quanfeng Zheng, Yuping Qi, Yue Wang, Jitao Chen*, 2021. Sedimentary features and carbon isotope changes of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age recorded in Fenghuangshan, Chaohu, Anhui. Journal of Stratigraphy, 45 (1), 38–48 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Ying Li, Xiangdong Wang, Keyi Hu, Xing Huang, Suichang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Yuping Qi, Jitao Chen, Le Yao, 2021. Lithostratigraphic subdivision and correlation of the Carboniferous in China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 45 (3): 303–318 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Mao Luo, Jitao Chen, Wenkun Qie, Jinyuan Huang, Qiyue Zhang, Changyong Zhou, Wen Wen, 2021. Microbially-induced carbonate precipitation in a Middle Triassic microbial mat deposit from southwestern China: Implications for the origin of micrite. Journal of Earth Science, 33 (3), 633–645.
Xiang-dong Wang, Ke-Yi Hu, Yu-Kun Shi, Jitao Chen, Sun-Rong Yang, Xun-Yan Ye, Xiao-Ming Li, Ying-Fan Song, Bo Chen, Xiao-Lin Chang, Le Yao, Yi-Chun Zhang, Jun-Xuan Fan, Shu-Zhong Shen, 2021. The missing upper Carboniferous in the Cimmerian Continent: A critical review. Earth-Science Reviews, 217, 103627.
Julie M. Griffin, Isabel P. Montañez, Justin J.G. Glessner, Jitao Chen, Malte Willmes, 2021. Geologic variability of conodont strontium isotopic composition quantified by laser ablation multiple collection inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 568, 110308.
Xing Huang, Yue Wang, Katsumi Ueno, Xionghua Zhang, Suosuo Jin, Jitao Chen, 2021. First record of Late Pennsylvanian fusulinids from the North Tianshan belt, NW China. Geological Journal, 56, 6053–6072.
2020
Jitao Chen*, 2020. Research progress of soft-sediment deformation structures. Journal of Stratigraphy, 44 (1), 64–75 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Hao Xin#, Jitao Chen*, 2020. A photomicrograph dataset of Cambrian Miaolingian–Furongian carbonates at the Jiulongshan section in western Shandong. Science Data Bank, 2020, 5(3), 196–204 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Xiaoxu Tian#, Jitao Chen*, Le Yao, Keyi Hu, Yuping Qi, Xiangdong Wang, 2020. Glacio-eustasy and δ13C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid-Carboniferous major glaciation. Geological Journal, 55, 2704–2716.
Tianran Zhang, Paul M. Myrow, David A. Fike, N. Ryan McKenzie, Jinliang Yuan, Xuejian Zhu, Wenjie Li, Jitao Chen*, 2020. Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and detrital zircon geochronology of Mesoproterozoic strata in the northern Helan Mountains, western margin of the North China Block. Precambrian Research, 343, 105730.
Zhaopeng Wang, Jitao Chen*, Taitao Liang, Jinliang Yuan, Chao Han, Jiaye Liu, Chenlin Zhu, Decheng Zhu, Zuozhen Han*, 2020. Spatial variation in carbonate carbon isotope during the Cambrian SPICE event across the North China Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 546, 109669.
Le Yao, Markus Aretz, Jitao Chen, Yuping Qi, 2020. Earliest Carboniferous stromatolites from the Qianheishan Formation, Dashuigou section, northwestern China: Implications for microbial proliferation after the end-Devonian mass extinction. Geological Journal, 55, 3361–3376.
Le Yao, Markus Aretz, Paul Wignall, Jitao Chen, Daniel Vachard, Yuping Qi, Shuzhong Shen, Xiangdong Wang, 2020. The longest delay: Re-emergence of coral reef ecosystems after the Late Devonian extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews, 203, 103060.
Yuping Qi, James E. Barrick, Nicholas J. Hogancamp, Jitao Chen, Keyi Hu, Qiulai Wang, Xiangdong Wang, 2020. Conodont faunas across the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary (Late Pennsylvanian) in South China and implications for the selection of the stratotype for the base of the global Gzhelian stage. Papers in Palaeontology, 6, 439–484.
Keyi Hu, Nicholas J. Hogancamp, Lance L. Lambert, Yuping Qi, Jitao Chen, 2020. Evolution of the conodont Diplognathodus Ellesmerensis from D. Benderi sp. nov. at the Bashkirian-Moscovian (Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian) boundary in South China. Papers in Palaeontology, 6, 627–649.
2019
Jitao Chen*, Qingyi Sheng, Keyi Hu, Le Yao, Wei Lin, Isabel P. Montañez, Xiaoxu Tian, Yuping Qi, Xiangdong Wang, 2019. Late Mississippian glacio-eustasy recorded in the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean (South China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 531, 108873.
Wenjie Li#, Jitao Chen*, Longwu Wang, Xiang Fang, Yuandong Zhang, 2019. Slump sheets as a record of regional tectonics and paleogeographic changes in South China. Sedimentary Geology, 392, 105525.
Huaichun Wu, Qiang Fang, Xiangdong Wang, Linda A. Hinnov, Yuping Qi, Shuzhong Shen, Tianshui Yang, Haiyan Li, Jitao Chen, Shihong Zhang, 2019. An ~34 m.y. astronomical time scale for the uppermost Mississippian through Pennsylvanian of the Carboniferous System of the Paleo-Tethyan realm. Geology, 47, 83–86.
Isabel P. Montañez, Xiumian Hu, Mingcai Hou, Chengshan Wang, Jitao Chen, and the DDE Sedimentology and Palaeogeography Groups, 2019. Sedimentological/Palaeogeographic Data as Fundamental Building Blocks of the DDE Project: Critical Underpinning of Reconstructing Deep-time Earth Systems. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93, 52–54.
Xiangdong Wang, Keyi Hu, Wenkun Qie, Qingyi Sheng, Bo Chen, Wei Lin, Le Yao, Qiulai Wang, Yuping Qi, Jitao Chen, Zhuoting Liao, Junjun Song, 2019. Carboniferous integrative stratigraphy and time scale of China. Science China Earth Sciences, 62 (1), 135–153.
2018
Isabel P. Montañez, Dillon J. Osleger, Jitao Chen, Barbara E. Wortham, Robert G. Stamm, Tamara I. Nemyrovska, Julie M. Griffin, Vladislav I. Poletaev, Bruce R. Wardlaw, 2018. Carboniferous climate teleconnections archived in coupled bioapatite δ18OPO4 and 87Sr/86Sr records from the epicontinental Donets Basin, Ukraine. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, 89–101.
Xianguo Lang, Jitao Chen, Huan Cui, Ling Man, Kang-Jun Huang, Yong Fu, Chuanming Zhou, Bing Shen, 2018, Cyclical cold climate during the Nantuo glaciation: evidence from the Nantuo Formation in the Yangtze Block, South China. Precambrian Research, 310, 243–255.
Hyun Suk Lee, Jitao Chen, Zuozhen Han, Sung Kwun Chough, 2018. Depositional processes and environmental changes during initial flooding of epeiric platform: Liguan Formation (Cambrian Series 2), Shandong Province, China. Geosciences Journal, 22 (6), 903–919.
Wenjie Li#, Yuandong Zhang, Jitao Chen, Wenwei Yuan, 2018. Characteristics of the Upper Ordovician lithofacies in the Putangkou section, Changshan, western Zhejiang Province, South China. Journal of Stratigraphy, 42 (4), 393–407 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
2017
Paul M. Myrow*, Jitao Chen*, Zach Snyder, Stephen Leslie, David Fike, Mark Fanning, Jinliang Yuan, Peng Tang, 2017. Depositional history, tectonics, and provenance of the Cambrian–Ordovician succession in the western margin of the North China Block: Reply. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129, 1022–1024.
Qiulai Wang, Yuping Qi, D. Korn, Jitao Chen, Qingyi Sheng, Tamara I. Nemyrovska, 2017. Progress on the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary in South China and Germany. Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 33, 35–42.
Keyi Hu, Yuping Qi, Qiulai Wang, Tamara I. Nemyrovska, Jitao Chen, 2017. Early Pennsylvanian conodonts from the Luokun section of Luodian, Guizhou, South China. Palaeoworld, 26, 64–82.
2016
Jitao Chen*, Isabel P. Montañez, Yuping Qi, Xiangdong Wang, Qiulai Wang, Wei Lin, 2016. Coupled sedimentary and δ13C records of late Mississippian platform-to-slope successions from South China: insight into δ13C chemostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 448, 162–178.
Le Yao, Markus Aretz, Jitao Chen, Gregory E. Webb, Xiangdong Wang, 2016. Global microbial carbonate proliferation after the end-Devonian mass extinction. Scientific Report, 6, 39694.
Fangbing Li, Fangzhen Teng, Jitao Chen, Kangjun Huang, Shuijiong Wang, Xianguo Lang, Haoran Ma, Peng Yongbo, Bing Shen, 2016. Constraining ribbon rock dolomitization by Mg isotopes: Implications for the ‘dolomite problem’. Chemical Geology, 445, 208–220.
Yang Peng, Bing Shen, Xian-Guo Lang, Kang-jun Huang, Jitao Chen, Zhen Yan, Wen-bo Tang, Shan Ke, Hao-Ran Ma, Fang-Bing Li, 2016. Constraining dolomitization by Mg isotopes: A case study from partially dolomitized limestones of the middle Cambrian Xuzhuang Formation, North China. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17 (3), 1109–1129.
Jitao Chen*, 2015. Origin of the Furongian limestone breccias in the North China Platform. Science China Earth Sciences, 58 (5), 770–775.
Paul M. Myrow*, Jitao Chen*, Zach Snyder, Stephen Leslie, David Fike, Mark Fanning, Jinliang Yuan, Peng Tang, 2015. Depositional history, tectonics, and provenance of the Cambrian–Ordovician succession in the western margin of the North China Block. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127, 1174–1193.
Paul M. Myrow*, Jitao Chen*, 2015. Estimates of large magnitude Late Cambrian earthquakes from seismogenic soft-sediment deformation structures: Central Rocky Mountains. Sedimentology, 62 (3), 621–644.
Aram Bayet-Goll*, Jitao Chen*, Reza Moussavi-Harami, Asadollah Mahboubi, 2015. Depositional processes of ribbon carbonates in middle Cambrian of Iran (Deh-Sufiyan Formation, Central Alborz). Facies, 61(3), 9.
Zuozhen Han, Xiaolei Zhang, Naijie Chi, Mei Han, Jusun Woo, Hyun Suk Lee, Jitao Chen*, 2015. Cambrian oncoids and other microbial-related grains on the North China Platform. Carbonates and Evaporites, 30, 373–386.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jitao Chen, S. K. Chough, 2015. The middle–late Cambrian reef transition and related geological events: A review and new view. Earth-Science Reviews, 145, 66–84.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jitao Chen, Jusun Woo, 2015. The earliest Phanerozoic carbonate hardground (Cambrian Stage 5, Series 3): implications to the paleoseawater chemistry and early adaptation of hardground fauna. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, 172–179.
Dawei Lü, Zengxue Li, Jitao Chen, Ying Liu, Zengqi Zhang, Jipo Liang, Haiyan Liu. 2015. Depositional environments of the upper Permian quartzose sandstone (Shandong Province, North China): insight from trace element geochemistry. Journal of Earth Science, 26 (2), 273–284.
Wenkun Qie, Jiangsi Liu, Jitao Chen, Xiangdong Wang, Horng-sheng Mii, Xionghua Zhang, Xing Huang, Le Yao, Thomas J. Algeo, Genming Luo, 2015. Local overprints on the global carbonate δ13C signal in Devonian-Carboniferous boundary successions of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 418, 290–303.
2014
Jitao Chen, Jeong-Hyun Lee*, Jusun Woo, 2014. Formative mechanisms, depositional processes, and geological implications of Furongian (late Cambrian) reefs in the North China Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 414, 246–259.
Jitao Chen*, Jeong-Hyun Lee, 2014. Current progress on the geological record of microbialites and microbial carbonates. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 88 (1), 260–275.
Dawei Lv, Jitao Chen*, 2014. Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of the Late Carboniferous−Early Permian coal-bearing successions (Shandong Province, China): sequence development in an epicontinental basin. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 79, 16–30.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jitao Chen, Suk-Joo Choh, Dong-Jin Lee, Zuozhen Han, Sung Kwun Chough, 2014. Furongian (late Cambrian) sponge–microbial maze-like reefs in the North China Platform. Palaios, 29, 27–37.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Hyun Suk Lee, Jitao Chen, Jusun Woo, S. K. Chough, 2014. Calcified microbial reefs in Cambrian Series 2, North China Platform: implications for the evolution of Cambrian calcified microbes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 403, 30–42.
Dawei Lv, Jitao Chen, Zengxue Li, Guiqiang Zheng, Cuiyu Song, Haiyan Liu, Yanru Meng, Dongdong Wang, 2014. Controlling factors, accumulation model and target zone prediction of the coal-bed methane in the Huanghebei Coalfield, North China. Resource Geology, 64 (4): 332–345.
Yuping Qi, Tamara I. Nemyrovska, Xiangdong Wang, Jitao Chen, Zhihao Wang, Richard H. Lane, Barry C. Richards, Katsumi Ueno, Keyi Hu, Qiulai Wang, 2014.Late Visean – early Serpukhovian conodont succession at the Naqing (Nashui) section in Guizhou, South China. Geological Magazine, 151 (1), 254–268.
Jitao Chen*, 2014. Surface and subsurface reworking by storms on a Cambrian carbonate platform: evidence from limestone breccias and conglomerates.Geologos, 20 (1), 13–23.
Jinyong Chen, Zuozhen Han, Honghai Fan, Jitao Chen, Naijie Chi, 2014. Characteristics and formation mechanism of Cambrian thrombolite in western Shandong Province. Acta Geologica Sinica, 88(6), 967–979 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
2013
Jitao Chen, Hyun Suk Lee*, 2013. Soft-sediment deformation structures in Cambrian siliciclastic and carbonate storm deposits (Shandong Province, China): differential liquefaction and fluidization triggered by storm-wave loading. Sedimentary Geology, 288, 81–94.
S. K. Chough, Jitao Chen*, 2013. Generation of subsurface injection flow in a carbonate platform. Geosciences Journal, 17 (1), 3–8.
2012
Jitao Chen, S. K. Chough*, Jeong-Hyun Lee, Zuozhen Han, 2012. Sequence-stratigraphic comparison of the upper Cambrian Series 3 to Furongian succession between the Shandong region, China and the Taebaek area, Korea: high variability of bounding surfaces in an epeiric platform. Geosciences Journal, 16 (4), 357–379.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jitao Chen*, S. K. Chough*, 2012. Demise of an extensive biostromal microbialite in the Furongian (late Cambrian) Chaomidian Formation, Shandong Province, China. Geosciences Journal, 16 (3), 275–287.
2011
Jitao Chen, S.K. Chough*, Zuozhen Han, Jeong-Hyun Lee. 2011. An extensive erosion surface of a strongly deformed limestone bed in the Gushan and Chaomidian formations (late Middle Cambrian to Furongian), Shandong Province, China: Sequence–stratigraphic implications. Sedimentary Geology, 233, 129–149.
Dawei Lv, Zengxue Li, Jitao Chen, Haiyan Liu, Jianbin Guo, Luning Shang, 2011. Characteristics of the Permian coal-formed gas sandstone reservoirs in Bohai Bay Basin and the adjacent areas, North China. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 78, 516–528.
2010
Jitao Chen, Zuozhen Han*, Xiaolei Zhang, Aiping Fan, Renchao Yang, 2010. Early diagenetic deformation structures of the Furongian ribbon rocks (Shandong Province, China)—a new perspective of the genesis of limestone conglomerates. Science China Earth Sciences, 53, 241–252.
Jeong-Hyun Lee, Jitao Chen, S. K. Chough, 2010. Paleoenvironmental implications of an extensive maceriate microbialite bed in the Furongian Chaomidian Formation, Shandong Province, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 621–632.
S.K. Chough, Hyun Suk Lee, Jusun Woo, Jitao Chen, Duck K. Choi, Seung-bae Lee, Imseong Kang, Tae-yoon Park, Zuozhen Han, 2010. Cambrian stratigraphy of the North China Platform: revisiting principal sections in Shandong Province, China. Geosciences Journal, 14 (3), 235–268.
2009
Jitao Chen, Sung Kwun Chough*, Seung Soo Chun, Zuozhen Han, 2009. Origin of limestone pseudoconglomerates in the Gushan and Chaomidian formations (Late Cambrian), Shandong Province, China: Early diagenetic sediment deformation caused by storm-wave loading under shallow-burial conditions. Sedimentology, 56, 1174–1195.
Jitao Chen, A. J. van Loon*, Zuozhen Han, S. K. Chough, 2009. Funnel-shaped, breccia-filled clastic dykes in the Late Cambrian Chaomidian Formation (Shandong Province, China). Sedimentary Geology, 221, 1–6.
Zuozhen Han, Jitao Chen, Xiaolei Zhang, Xuefeng Yu. 2009. Characteristics of Epiphyton and Epiphyton Microbialites in the Zhangxia Formation (Third Series of Cambrian), Shandong Province. Acta Geologica Sinica, 83 (8), 1097–1103 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
Zuozhen Han, Jitao Chen, Naijie Chi, Zhaopeng Wang, Renchao Yang, Aiping Fan. 2009. Microbial carbonates: a review and perspectives. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 29 (4): 29–38 (In Chinese with English Abstract).