Gao Shan (; June 30, 1962 – May 3, 2016) was a Chinese geochemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was a professor of geochemistry at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
Biography Gao obtained a bachelor's degree of geology from Northwest University (China) in 1982. He was enrolled to China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 1985 when he obtained a master's degree. He received his PhD from China University of Geosciences in 1989. Following this, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation post-doctoral scientist at the Geochemisches institute, University of Göttingen, before he returned to China to take up a faculty position at China University of Geosciences. His interests included chemical composition of the continental crust, chemical exchange between the crust and the mantle, and laser ablation ICP-MS and its applications to in-situ elemental and isotopic analysis of minerals. He published authoritative articles on the chemical composition of the continental crust Gao et al., 1998, Chemical composition of the continental crust as revealed by studies in East China, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62: 1959-1975Rudnick and Gao, 2014, Continental Crust, Treatise on Geochemistry, Elsevier and contributed to unravelling the history of decratonization in the North China Craton.Gao et al. 2004. Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton. Nature, 432: 892-897Gao et al., 2008. Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 270: 41-53
Gao was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in December 2011. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009), Geochemical Society (2014) and European Association of Geochemistry (2014).Geochemical Fellows
Gao died in Wuhan on May 3, 2016.
References
External links Gao Shan's research at Google Scholar