Education

2010.9-2016.6, Ph.D., Geochemistry, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, Supervisor: Shan Gao

2013.9-2015.1, visiting Ph.D. student, Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Supervisor: Roberta Rudnick

2006.9-2010.6, B.S., Geochemistry, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, Supervisor: Yuanbao Wu

Working experience

2020.7-now, State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Associate professor

2019.1-2019.7, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Visiting scholar, Collaborator: Cin-Ty Lee

2016.11-2020.6, State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Assistant professor

2016.7-2016.10, State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Research assistant

Research interests

1) The formation and evolution of the continental crust

2) Magma genesis in subduction zones

3) Analytical methods for chalcophile elements in silicate rocks

Grants

(6) Sub-project of National Key Research and Development Program of China from Ministry of Science and Technology: The geochemical behavior of chalcophile elements in magmas at the Archean-Proterozoic Boundary. 2024.1-2028.12, PI.

(5) The "General Program" from NSFC: Chalcophile element abundances in the lower continental crust: constraints from granulites in lower crustal sections and xenoliths, 2024.1-2027.12, PI.

(4) The "General Program" from NSFC: The geochemical behavior of chalcophile elements and Cu isotopes during the differentiation of continental arc magmas, 2021.1-2024.12, PI.

(3) The "Young Scientists Fund" from NSFC: Copper-silver-gold abundances in the upper continental crust and their secular change over Earth history: Constraints from tillites, 2018.1-2020.12, PI.

(2) The Independent Fund from State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan): Gold and silver abundances in the upper continental crust: constraints from loess, 2017.1-2019.12, PI.

(1) The New Youth Fund from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan): High precision analytical method for Au concentrations in silicate rocks, 2017.1-2019.12, PI.

Service

Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Continental crust formation”in Lithos.

Reviews of American Mineralogist, Communications Earth & Environment, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Economic Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Lithos, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Precambrian Research, Science Advances, and Solid Earth Sciences.

Publications

31. Wang, Meiling, Wang, Zaicong*, Guo, Liang, Zou, Zongqi, Wu, Fei, Dai, Wei, Guo, Jingliang, Chen, Kang, Feng, Lanping, Chen, Haihong, Li, Ming, Liu, Yongsheng, 2025. Calcium isotope composition of the Gangdese continental arc deep crust and implications for making continental crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 400 248-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.04.033

30. Wang, Rui*, Tang, Ming, Wang, Qing, Chen, Kang, Cawood, Peter A., 2025. Editorial: Crust formation from subduction to collision. Lithos 516-517 108266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108266

29. 刘勇胜*, 何德涛, 陈康, 赵国春, 2025. 原始地壳增厚驱动水反向富集与早期TTG形成. 科学通报 70 (21) 3557-3565. https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2024-1275

28. Han, Peng-Yuan*, Rudnick, Roberta L., Hu, Zhao-Chu, He, Tao, Marks, M. A. W., Chen, Kang, 2024. Halogen enrichment on the continental surface: a perspective from loess. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 32 52-57. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2442

27. Yu, Yuanyang, Zong, Keqing*, Chen, Kang, Guo, Jing-Liang, Wang, Xinshui, Wang, Zaicong, Zhang, Wen, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2024. Formation of deep arc root cumulates and implications for crustal growth in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Chemical Geology 660 122147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122147

26. Zou, Zongqi, Wang, Zaicong*, Xu, Yi-Gang, Foley, Stephen, Cheng, Huai, Ma, Liang, Wang, Xiang, Chen, Kang, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, Liu, Yanhong, 2024. Deep mantle cycle of chalcophile metals and sulfur in subducted oceanic crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 370 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.02.007

25. Chen, Kang*, Tang, Ming, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2023. Generation of tholeiitic and calc-alkaline arc magmas and its implications for continental growth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 355 173-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.07.002

24. Tang, Ming*, Liu, Xuanyu, Chen, Kang, 2023. High Mg# of the continental crust explained by calc-alkaline differentiation. National Science Review 10 (3) nwac258. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac258

23. Lin, Ran, Zong, Keqing*, Lin, Jie, Yang, Ao, Chen, Kang, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2022a. Determination of the Isotopic Composition of an Enriched Lutetium Spike by MC-ICP-MS. Atomic Spectroscopy 43 (5) 396-402. http://www.at-spectrosc.com/as/article/abstract/2022188

22. Lin, Ran, Lin, Jie*, Zong, Keqing, Yang, Ao, Chen, Kang, Liu, Yongsheng, Hu, Zhaochu, 2022b. Determination of the Isotopic Composition of Ytterbium by MC-ICP-MS Using an Optimized Regression Model. Analytical Chemistry 94 (20) 7200-7209. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05609

21. Xu, Zhe, Wang, Zaicong*, Guo, Jing-Liang, Liu, Yanhong, Guo, Jinghui, Cheng, Huai, Chen, Kang, Wang, Xiang, Zong, Keqing, Zhu, Zhaoxian, Hu, Zhaochu, Li, Hua, 2022. Chalcophile elements of the Early Cretaceous Guojialing granodiorites and mafic enclaves, eastern China, and implications for the formation of giant Jiaodong gold deposits. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 238 105374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105374

20. 陈康*, 胡兆初, 汪在聪, 2022. 地质历史时期大陆地壳的化学成分是如何演化的？. 地球科学 47 (10) 3808. http://www.earth-science.net/article/doi/10.3799/dqkx.2022.818

19. 刘勇胜*, 宗克清, 何德涛, 汪在聪, 陈康, 沈俊, 2022. 地球深部物质释放如何影响地表环境？. 地球科学 47 (10) 3783. http://www.earth-science.net/article/doi/10.3799/dqkx.2022.807

18. Yang, Wenwu, Zhao, He, Zhang, Wen, Luo, Tao, Li, Ming, Chen, Kang, Hu, Shenghong, Hu, Zhaochu*, 2021. A simple method for the preparation of homogeneous and stable solid powder standards: Application to sulfide analysis by LA-ICP-MS. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 178 106124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2021.106124

17. Chen, Kang*, Rudnick, Roberta L., Wang, Zaicong, Tang, Ming, Gaschnig, Richard M., Zou, Zongqi, He, Tao, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2020a. How mafic was the Archean upper continental crust? Insights from Cu and Ag in ancient glacial diamictites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 278 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.002

16. Chen, Kang*, Tang, Ming, Lee, Cin-Ty A., Wang, Zaicong, Zou, Zongqi, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2020b. Reply to Comment from Zafar, Leng and Chen on “Sulfide-bearing cumulates in deep continental arcs: The missing copper reservoir” by Chen et al. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 531 (2020) 115971). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 551 116592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116592

15. Chen, Kang*, Tang, Ming, Lee, Cin-Ty A., Wang, Zaicong, Zou, Zongqi, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2020c. Sulfide-bearing cumulates in deep continental arcs: The missing copper reservoir. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531 115971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115971

14. Lin, Ran, Lin, Jie*, Zong, Keqing, Chen, Kang, Tong, Shuoyun, Feng, Lanping, Zhang, Wen, Li, Ming, Liu, Yongsheng, Hu, Zhaochu, Zhou, Lian, 2020. Determination of the Isotopic Composition of an Enriched Hafnium Spike by MC-ICP-MS Using a Regression Model. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 44 (4) 753-762. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12343

13. Zou, Zongqi, Wang, Zaicong*, Cheng, Huai, He, Tao, Liu, Yinuo, Chen, Kang, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, 2020. Comparative Determination of Mass Fractions of Elements with Variable Chalcophile Affinities in Geological Reference Materials with and without HF-desilicification. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 44 (3) 501-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12328

12. Cheng, Huai, Wang, Zaicong*, Chen, Kang, Zong, Keqing, Zou, Zongqi, He, Tao, Hu, Zhaochu, Fischer-Gödde, Mario, Liu, Yanhong, 2019. High-precision Determination of Gold Mass Fractions in Geological Reference Materials by Internal Standardisation. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 43 (4) 663-680. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12284

11. Tang, Ming*, Lee, Cin-Ty A., Chen, Kang, Erdman, Monica, Costin, Gelu, Jiang, Hehe, 2019. Nb/Ta systematics in arc magma differentiation and the role of arclogites in continent formation. Nature Communications 10 (1) 235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08198-3

10. Feng, Yantong, Zhang, Wen*, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, Chen, Kang, Fu, Jiali, Xie, Junyi, Shi, Quanhui, 2018. Development of sulfide reference materials for in situ platinum group elements and S–Pb isotope analyses by LA-(MC)-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 33 (12) 2172-2183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8JA00305J

9. Han, Peng-Yuan, Guo, Jing-Liang*, Chen, Kang, Huang, Hua, Zong, Ke-Qing, Liu, Yong-Sheng, Hu, Zhao-Chu, Gao, Shan, 2017. Widespread Neoarchean (~ 2.7–2.6 Ga) magmatism of the Yangtze craton, South China, as revealed by modern river detrital zircons. Gondwana Research 42 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2016.09.006

8. Chen, Kang*, Walker, Richard J., Rudnick, Roberta L., Gao, Shan, Gaschnig, Richard M., Puchtel, Igor S., Tang, Ming, Hu, Zhao-Chu, 2016. Platinum-group element abundances and Re–Os isotopic systematics of the upper continental crust through time: Evidence from glacial diamictites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 191 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.07.004

7. Lin, Jie, Liu, Yongsheng*, Hu, Zhaochu, Yang, Lu, Chen, Kang, Chen, Haihong, Zong, Keqing, Gao, Shan, 2016. Accurate determination of lithium isotope ratios by MC-ICP-MS without strict matrix-matching by using a novel washing method. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 31 (2) 390-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5JA00231A

6. Tang, Ming*, Chen, Kang, Rudnick, Roberta L., 2016. Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics. Science 351 (6271) 372-375. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6271/372

5. 蔺洁, 刘勇胜*, 胡兆初, 陈康, 陈海红, 宗克清, 高山, 2016. MC-ICP-MS准确测定地质样品中锂同位素组成. 矿物岩石地球化学通报 35 (3) 458-464. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1007-2802.2016.03.008

4. Guo, Jing-Liang, Wu, Yuan-Bao, Gao, Shan*, Jin, Zhen-Min, Zong, Ke-Qing, Hu, Zhao-Chu, Chen, Kang, Chen, Hai-Hong, Liu, Yong-Sheng, 2015. Episodic Paleoarchean-Paleoproterozoic (3.3–2.0 Ga) granitoid magmatism in Yangtze Craton, South China: Implications for late Archean tectonics. Precambrian Research 270 246-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.09.007

3. Guo, Jing-Liang, Gao, Shan*, Wu, Yuan-Bao, Li, Ming, Chen, Kang, Hu, Zhao-Chu, Liang, Zheng-Wei, Liu, Yong-Sheng, Zhou, Lian, Zong, Ke-Qing, Zhang, Wen, Chen, Hai-Hong, 2014. 3.45 Ga granitic gneisses from the Yangtze Craton, South China: Implications for Early Archean crustal growth. Precambrian Research 242 (0) 82-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.12.018

2. Zong, Keqing*, Liu, Yongsheng, Zhang, Zeming, He, Zhenyu, Hu, Zhaochu, Guo, Jingliang, Chen, Kang, 2013. The generation and evolution of Archean continental crust in the Dunhuang block, northeastern Tarim craton, northwestern China. Precambrian Research 235 (0) 251-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.07.002

1. Chen, Kang, Gao, Shan*, Wu, Yuanbao, Guo, Jingliang, Hu, Zhaochu, Liu, Yongsheng, Zong, Keqing, Liang, Zhengwei, Geng, Xianlei, 2013. 2.6–2.7 Ga crustal growth in Yangtze craton, South China. Precambrian Research 224 472-490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.10.017

Conference abstracts/talks

11. Chen, K., Wang, Z., Kay, S., 2024, The behavior of chalcophile elements during the differentiation of two distinct magma series from the Central Andes. Goldschmidt Meeting, Chicago, USA, Oral presentation, 2024 Aug. 18-23.

10. Chen, K., Tang, M., Hu, Z., Liu, Y., 2022, Iron differentiation in arc magmas and implication for continental crust growth, 2022/2021 Annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union, Oral presentation. Virtual, China, 2022, Dec. 5-9.

9. Chen, K., Tang, M., Hu, Z., Liu, Y., 2022, Crustal thickness controls the differentiation style and composition of arc magmas and continental crust formation. Goldschmidt Meeting, Virtual and Honolulu, USA, Oral presentation, 2022 Jul. 10-15.

8. Chen, K., Tang, M., 2021, Differentiation of calc-alkaline and tholeiitic arc magmas: implications for continental crust growth, 7th Young Scientist Forum of Earth Science, invited talk, Guiyang, China, 2021 Jul. 9-11.

7. Chen, K., 2020, Sulfide-bearing cumulates in deep continental arcs: The missing copper reservoir, Annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union, Invited talk. Chongqing, China, 2020 Oct. 18-21.

6. Chen, K., Tang, M., Kay, Suzanne M., Wang, Z., Hu, Z., Liu, Y., 2020, Chalcophile element systematics in continental arc magmas as observed in the Central Andes. Goldschmidt Meeting, Virtual presentation, 2020 Jun. 21-26.

5. Chen K., Rudnick, R.L., Wang Z., Tang M., Zou Z., Hu Z., Liu Y., 2019, How Mafic was the Archean Upper Continental Crust? Goldschmidt Meeting, oral presentation. Barcelona, Spain, 2019 Aug.18-23.

4. Chen, K., Wang Z., Tang M., Zou Z., Hu Z., Liu Y., 2018, Tracking sulfide fractionation in deep continental arcs: Implications for porphyry Cu deposits. Goldschmidt Meeting, oral presentation. Boston, USA, 2018 Aug.12-17.

3. Chen K., Tang M., Liu Y-S., Gao S., 2016, Reevaluating element mobility during continental weathering. Goldschmidt Meeting, poster presentation. Yokohama, Japan, 2016 Jun. 26-Jul. 1.

2. Chen K., Walker R. J., Rudnick R. L., Gao S., 2015, Platinum-group element abundances and Re-Os isotopic systematics of the upper continental crust through time: evidence from glacial diamictites. Annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union, poster presentation. Beijing, China, 2015 Oct. 11-14.

1. Chen K., Gao S., Wu Y.-B., 2013, 2.6-2.7 Ga continental crust growth in Yangtze craton, South China. AGU Fall Meeting, poster presentation. San Francisco, California, USA, 2013 Dec. 9-13.

Other Invited Talks

3. 20th Sept. 2021, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Title: Crustal thickness controls arc magma differentiation: Implications for continental crustal growth.

2. 26th Sept. 2020, Young Scientist Forum of Ore Deposit, Title: Chalcophile element behavior in subduction zone magmatism: implications for continental crust growth and porphyry copper deposits.

1. 10th June 2019, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Title: How mafic was the Archean upper continental crust?

Current students

2. Shuxiao Wu, master student, 2025

1. Qiang Fei, master student, 2023