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Clean Lab

Research in the Yin lab utilizes an approximately 600 sq. ft. Class-10/100 clean room housed within the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis. Completed in 2011, the clean lab contains a dedicated portion for isotope cosmochemistry research. The clean lab facility contains nine PicoTrace® Class-10 clean workstations and two 3-story sample dry down systems. Ultrapure acids are prepared using both Savillex and PicoTrace distillation systems and ultrapure water is provided using a Milli-Q water purification system from Millipore®.

New Yin Lab Papers

T. Yokoyama et al. (2022) Samples from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites. Science https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abn7850?download=true

H. Huang, M. Huyskens, Q.-Z. Yin, P. Cawood, M.-C. Hou, J.-H. Yang, F.-H. Xiong, Y.-S. Du, and C. Yang (2022) Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province: relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary. Geology (Accepted on April 27, 2022) https://doi.org/10.1130/G50183.1

Z. W. Lan, M. H. Huyskens, G. Le Hir, R. Mitchell, Q.-Z. Yin, G. Y. Zhang, and X.-H. Li, (2022)Massive volcanism may have foreshortened the Marinoan snowball Earth. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097156

Z.-Q. Yu, L.-P. Dong, M. H. Huyskens, Q.-Z. Yin, Y. Wang, C.-L. Deng, and H.-Y. He (2022) The exceptionally preserved Early Cretaceous Moqi Fauna from eastern Inner Mongolia, China, and its age relationship with the Jehol Biota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 589, 110824 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110824

M. Liu, P. Jiang, L-Y. Lu, T.-H. Yin, L.-Y. Ma, M. Cheng, Q.-Z. Yin, H. Gao (2021) Strong isotope-dependent photodissociation branching ratios of N₂ and their potential implications for the ¹⁴N/¹⁵N isotope fractionation in Titan’s atmosphere. Astrophysical Journal , 923:196 (10pp) https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2f97

M-H. Zhu, A. Morbidelli, W. Neumann, Q.-Z. Yin, J. M. D. Day, D. C. Rubie, G. J. Archer, N. Artemieva, H. Becker, K. Wünnemann (2021) Common feedstocks of late accretion for the terrestrial planets. Nature Astronomy 5, 1286-1296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01475-0

Z. Vaci, J. M. D. Day, M. Paquet, K. Ziegler, Q.-Z. Yin, S. Dey, A. Miller, C. Agee, R. Bartoschewitz, and A. Pack (2021) Olivine-rich achondrites from Vesta and the missing mantle problem. Nature Communications 12, 5443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25808-9

C. A. Goodrich, M. E. Sanborn, Q.-Z. Yin, I. Kohl, D. Frank, R. T. Daly, K. J. Walsh, M. E. Zolensky, E. R. D. Young, P. Jenniskens, and M. H. Shaddad (2021) Chromium Isotopic Evidence for Mixing of NC and CC Reservoirs in Polymict Ureilites: Implications for Dynamical Models of the Early Solar System. The Planetary Science Journal, 2:13 (15pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abd258

C. Williams, M. E. Sanborn, C. Defouilloy, Q.-Z. Yin, N. T. Kita, D. S. Ebel, A. Yamakawa, K. Yamashita (2020) Chondrules Reveal Large-Scale Outward Transport of Inner Solar System Materials in the Protoplanetary Disk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (38) 23426-23435. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/01/2005235117

W. Y. Liu, Y.G. Zhang, Q.-Z. Yin, Y. Zhao and Z.G. Zhang (2020) Magnesium partitioning between silicate melt and liquid iron using first-principles molecular dynamics: implications for the early history of the Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531, 115934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115934.

S. Y. Liao, M. H. Huyskens, Q.-Z. Yin, B. Schmitz (2020) Absolute dating of the L- chondrite parent body breakup with high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology from Ordovician limestone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 547, 116442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116442

R. Merle, Y. Amelin, Q.-Z. Yin, M. Huyskens, M. Sanborn, K. Nagashima, K. Yamashita, T. Ireland, A. Krot, M. J. Sieber (2020) Exploring the efficiency of stepwise dissolution in removal of stubborn non-radiogenic Pb in chondrule U-Pb dating. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 277, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.010

C.-M Zhou, M. H. Huyskens, S. H. Xiao, Q.-Z. Yin (2020) Refining the termination age of the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation in South China. Paleoworld 29, 462-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.04.002

P. Jenniskens, N. Moskovitz, L. A. J. Garvie, Q.-Z. Yin, J. A. Howell, D. L. Free, J. Albers, D. Samuels, M. D. Fries, P. Mane, D. R. Dunlap, K. Ziegler, M. Sanborn, Q. Zhou, Q.-L. Li, X.-H. Li, Y. Liu, G.-Q. Tang, K. Welten, M. W. Caffee, H. Busemann, M. M. M. Meier, and D. Nesvorny (2020) Orbit and origin of the LL7 chondrite Dishchii’bikoh (Arizona). Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 55, 535–557 https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13452

Y. T. Lin, Y. Zhang, S. Hu, Y. Xu, W. Zhou, S. J. Li, W. Yang, Y. Gao, M. Li, Q.-Z. Yin, D. Lin, W. Ip. (2020). Concepts of the small body sample return missions – The 1st 10 Ma year evolution of the solar system. Space Science Reviews (2020) 216:45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00670-1

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