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Mingqi Liu

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of
Southern California
ml_013@usc.edu


In Preparation

  • Liu and Barbot, (Under Review). Role of hydrothermal alteration and thermally activated healing for seismic swarms generation along slow oceanic transform faults
  • Liu et al., (In Preparation). Lithology, friction, and fault dynamics: a physical framework for Southern California seismicity

Selected publications [Google Scholar]

  1. Tectonics
    The Effect of Brittle-Ductile Weakening on the Formation of Faulting Patterns at Mid-Ocean Ridges
    Mingqi Liu*, Taras Gerya, Antoine Rozel
    Tectonics, 2025

  2. JGR - Solid Earth
    Forced Subduction Initiation Near Spreading Centers: Effects of Brittle-Ductile Damage
    Mingqi Liu*, Taras Gerya
    JGR - Solid Earth, 2023

  3. EPSL
    Self-organization of magma supply controls crustal thickness variation and tectonic pattern along melt-poor mid-ocean ridges
    Mingqi Liu*, Taras Gerya, Antoine Billy Rozel
    Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022

  4. NC
    Low-degree mantle melting controls the deep seismicity and explosive volcanism of the Gakkel Ridge
    Ivan Koulakov, Vera Schlindwein, Mingqi Liu, Taras Gerya, Andrey Jakovlev, Aleksey Ivanov
    Nature Communications, 2022

  5. NC
    Vertical tearing of subducting plates controlled by geometry and rheology of oceanic plates
    Yaguang Chen, Hanlin Chen*, Mingqi Liu*, Taras Gerya*
    Nature Communications, 2023

  6. SCES
    Dynamics of thinning and destruction of the continental cratonic lithosphere: Numerical modeling
    Mingqi Liu, Zhonghai Li
    Science China Earth Sciences, 2018

  7. JAES
    Diapir versus along-channel ascent of crustal material during plate convergence: Constrained by the thermal structure of subduction zones
    Ming-Qi Liu, Zhong-Hai Li, Shao-Hua Yang
    Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017