DEPT OF EARTH SCIENCES



Researcher : Ali JR

Project Title:Paleomagnetic study of paleogene rocks, Kazakhstan, central Asia
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for New Staff
Start Date:02/2003


Project Title:Quest for the lost arc of Neotethys: refining models for the India-Asia convergence-collision system
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Science)
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ohba M., Samonds K.E., LaFleur M., Ali J.R. and Godfrey L.R., Madagascar's climate at the K/P boundary and its impact on the island's biotic suite, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2016, 441: 688-695.
Pittman M.D., Xu X., Ali J.R., Pei R., Ma W.S., Meng J. and Bi S.D., Insights into iguanodontian dental architecture from an Early Cretaceous Chinese basal hadrosauriform maxilla (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), PeerJ PrePrints. 2015, 3: e1636.
Procheş S., Ramdhani S., Perera S.J., Ali J.R. and Gairola S., Global hotspots in the present-day distribution of ancient animal and plant lineages, Scientific Reports. 2015.
Stojanovic D., Aitchison J.C., Ali J.R., Ahmad T. and Dar R.A., Paleomagnetic investigation of the Early Permian Panjal Traps of NW India; regional tectonic implications, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2016, 115: 114-123.


Researcher : Aydin A

Project Title:Mechanisms of landslides along clayey veins in saprolitic profiles
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2003


Project Title:Quantification and mapping of liquefaction potential of loaog city, the Philippines: phase II
Investigator(s):Aydin A
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:07/2005


Project Title:DURABILITY OF LIMESTONE AS ARMOURSTONE
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2005


Project Title:Development of a scheme for microstructural characterization of weathered rocks
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2006




Researcher : Aydin NS

Project Title:Comparative study on speciation of potentially toxic organic and inorganic elements in urban environments of Hong Kong and Guangzhou
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:04/2003


Project Title:Fate of heavy metals released into fluvial system: Assessment of health and environmental effects of E-waste recycling/disposal in Guiyu, SE China
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Malpas JG, Aydin A
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:01/2004


Project Title:Trace elements in Chinese coal: (Phase-I) domestic coal combustion and their health impact
Investigator(s):Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:05/2005


Project Title:Atmospheric deposition of mercury in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Gu J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Environment and Conservation Fund
Start Date:02/2006




Researcher : CAO S

List of Research Outputs

Liao S.Y., Wang D.B., Tang Y., Yin F.G., CAO S., Wang L.Q., Wang B.D. and Sun Z.M., Late Paleozoic Woniusi basaltic province from Sibumasu terrane: Implications for the breakup of eastern Gondwana’s northern margin, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1313-1330.


Researcher : CHEN H-C

List of Research Outputs

CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Zhou H. and Sun M., Geochemistry and geochronology of the Delinggou Intrusion: Implications for the subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean beneath the North China Craton, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : CHEN M

List of Research Outputs

CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M., Cai K.D., Zhao G., Kulikova A.V. and Rubanova E.S., Crustal melting and magma mixing in a continental arc setting: Evidence from the Yaloman intrusive complex in the Gorny Altai terrane, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Lithos. 2016, 252-253: 76-91.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M.M., Zhao G., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Detrital zircon record of the early Paleozoic meta-sedimentary rocks in Russian Altai: Implications on their provenance and the tectonic nature of the Altai–Mongolian terrane, Lithos. 2015, 233: 209-222.
CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M.M., Cai K., Zhao G., Zheng J., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Neoproterozoic–middle Paleozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Gorny Altai terrane, northwest of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf-isotope studies, Lithos. 2015, 233: 223-236.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M., Zhao G., Jiang Y., Rubanova E., Kulikova A. and Voytishek E., The early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Russian Altai: Implications from geochemical and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic studies of meta-sedimentary complexes in the Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan suture zone, Gondwana Research. 2016, 34: 1-15.
Cai K., Sun M., Buslov M., Jahn B.-.M., Xiao W., Long X., Chen H., Wan B., CHEN M., Rubanova E.S., Kulikova A.V. and Voytishek E.E., Crustal nature and origin of the Russian Altai: Implications for the continental evolution and growth of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), Tectonophysics. 2016, 674: 182-194.


Researcher : CHEN Q

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G. and Yuan C., U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic record of zircons from the late Neoproterozoic and Silurian–Devonian sedimentary rocks of the western Yangtze Block: Implications for its tectonic evolution and continental affinity, Gondwana Research. 2016, 31: 184-199.


Researcher : CHEN W

List of Research Outputs

LI X., Zhao X., Zhou M.F., CHEN W. and Chu Z., Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe-Cu-(REE) Deposit, Southwest China, Economic Geology. 2015, 110: 1339-1369.


Researcher : CHEUNG MC

List of Research Outputs

CHEUNG M.C., Zong Y., WANG N., Aitchison J.C. and Zheng Z., δ13Corg and n-alkane evidence for changing wetland conditions during a stable mid-late Holocene climate in the central Tibetan Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2015, 438: 203-212.


Researcher : Cai K

List of Research Outputs

CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M., Zhao G., Jiang Y., Rubanova E., Kulikova A. and Voytishek E., The early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Russian Altai: Implications from geochemical and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic studies of meta-sedimentary complexes in the Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan suture zone, Gondwana Research. 2016, 34: 1-15.


Researcher : Chan LS

Project Title:Joint HK-France-Vietnam production of a neotectonic map of South China-Southeast Asia region
Investigator(s):Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:The University of Hong Kong Foundation Seed Grant
Start Date:04/2002


List of Research Outputs

KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and Chan L.S., A preliminary study on the offshore stratigraphy in Hong Kong and its hydrogeological implications, Environmental Earth Sciences. 2016, 75.
LI J., Chan L.S. and Li Y., The blueberry (iron nodule) from the Shark Bay area, Western Australia and its implication to the genetic environments of iron nodules on Mars, Science China Earth Sciences. 2016, 59: 640-650.


Researcher : Chang S

Project Title:Goldschmidt 2011 High-precision age for the Haifanggou Formation and its implication for the coevolution of plants and atmospheric CO2
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2011


Project Title:The age of the Tatun Volcano Group in Taiwan
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Age of the Tabbowa beds in Sri Lanka and implications for paleoenvironment of East Gondwana
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:08/2014


Project Title:High-precision geochronological constraints on the evolution of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Korean Peninsula
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:Application of multivariate analysis to geochemical data
Investigator(s):Chang S, King JA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2015


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Age of the fossil-rich formations in the Shandong Peninsula
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:The age, origin and tectonic history of the Vijayan Complex, Sri Lanka
Investigator(s):Chang S, Tam PY, Ng SWP
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chang S., Age of the fossil-rich Gyeongsang Supergroup in South Korea, AOGS Meeting. 2015.
Feng C., Gao C. and Chang S., Mg Isotopes Of The Late Permian Evaporates, New Mexico, Usa, Agu Fall Meeting, San Francisco (2015). 2015.
Show D. and Chang S., Spatial and temporal variations of particulate matter across Peninsular Malaysia, AOGS Meeting. 2015.
Wang J., Chang S., Wu Y. and Xu Y., Bayesian analysis on earthquake magnitude related to an active fault in Taiwan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 2015, 75: 18-26.
Wang J., Chang S. and Xu Y., Best-Estimate Return Period of the Sanchiao Earthquake in Taipei: Bayesian Approach, Natural Hazards Review. 2015, 06015001.
Wang J., Chang S., Lu H. and Zhang H., Detrital zircon provenance of the Wangshi and Laiyang groups of the Jiaolai basin: evidence for Early Cretaceous uplift of the Sulu orogen, Eastern China, International Geology Review. 2016, 58: 719-736.
Wang J., Chang S., Wang K., Lu H. and Zhang H., Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous igneous units from the central Sulu orogenic belt: Evidence for crustal delamination during a shift in the regional tectonic regime, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 112: 49-59.
Zheng D., Nel A., Wang B., Jarzembowski E., Chang S. and Zhang H., A new damsel-dragonfly from the Lower Jurassic of northwestern China and its paleobiogeographic significance, Journal of Paleontology. 2016, 90: 485-490.
Zheng D., Xu H., Wang J., Fang C., Zhang H. and Chang S., Geochronologic Age Constraints On The Middle Devonian Hujiersite Flora Of Xinjiang, Nw China. , Conference On Earth System Science, Shanghai (2016). 2016.
Zheng D., Nel A., Wang B., Jarzembowski E., Chang S. and Zhang H., The discovery of the hindwing of the Early Cretaceous dragonfly Sinaktassia tangi Lin, Nel & Huang, 2010 (Odonata, Aktassiidae) in northeastern China, Cretaceous Research. 2016, 61: 86-90.
Zheng D., Nel A., Wang B., Jarzembowski E., Chang S. and Zhang H., The first Early Cretaceous damsel–dragonfly (Odonata: Stenophlebiidae: Stenophlebia) from western Liaoning, China, Cretaceous Research. 2016, 61: 124-128.


Researcher : Dingle CE

Project Title:Avian behavioural responses to urbanization – case study of the Oriental Magpie Robin.
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:07/2015


Project Title:Species on the Move; Does environmental variation predict temporal variation in traits associated with mating success in spotted bowerbirds?
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:02/2016
Completion Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Dingle C.E., Urban Ecology in Hong Kong., School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosicences, Wuhan.. 2015.
Dingle C.E., Urban Ecology: How does urbanization transform ecology?, Biomimicry seminar and round table: How would nature design?. 2016.
Halfwerk W., Dingle C.E., Brinkhuizen D.M., Poelstra J.W., Komdeaur J. and Slabbekoorn H., Sharp acoustic boundaries across an altitudinal avian hybrid zone despite asymmetric introgression, Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2016, n/a-n/a.


Researcher : EIZENHOEFER PR

List of Research Outputs

EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : GONG Z

List of Research Outputs

GONG Z., Li S.H. and Li B., Late Quaternary faulting on the Manas and Hutubi reverse faults in the northern foreland basin of Tian Shan, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2015, 424: 212-225.


Researcher : Geng H

List of Research Outputs

Yin J., Chen W., Xiao W., Yuan C., Sun M., Tang G., Yu S., Long X., Cai K., Geng H., Zhang Y. and Liu X., Petrogenesis of Early-Permian sanukitoids from West Junggar, Northwest China: Implications for Late Paleozoic crustal growth in Central Asia, Tectonophysics. 2015, 662: 385-397.


Researcher : Goodkin Emami NF

Project Title:Ocean Acidification in Hong Kong: The Past 200 Years
Investigator(s):Goodkin Emami NF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2011-12
Investigator(s):Goodkin Emami NF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2011




Researcher : HAN Y

List of Research Outputs

EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : HOU W

List of Research Outputs

EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : Jiang Y

List of Research Outputs

CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M., Zhao G., Jiang Y., Rubanova E., Kulikova A. and Voytishek E., The early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Russian Altai: Implications from geochemical and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic studies of meta-sedimentary complexes in the Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan suture zone, Gondwana Research. 2016, 34: 1-15.


Researcher : Jiao JJJ

Project Title:Dynamics of flow, nutrients, radium, and radon in freshwater-saltwater mixing zones in coastal aquifers and its implications on estimation of submarine groundwater discharge
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:Isotopic and Geomicrobiologic Studies of Ammonium-Rich Aquitards in the Pearl River Delta
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Gu J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Submarine Groundwater Discharge in South China Sea and its Implication on Nutrient Flux
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Water Resources Dialogue: China Africa Series No. 3; Groundwater in Badain Jaran Desert in China
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Effects of climate change on groundwater system of the Yangtze River source region
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Liu Z, Kuang X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2015


Project Title:Investigation of nutrient retention in a groundwater-fed headwater stream by stable and radiogenetic isotopes
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Groundwater discharge and lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert revealed by radium quartet and radon-222
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Kuang X, Luo X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Coping with landslide risks in Hong Kong under extreme storms: Storm scenarios, cascading landslide hazards and multi-hazard risk assessment
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Guo H., Zhang Z., Cheng G., Li W., Li T. and Jiao J.J.J., Groundwater-derived land subsidence in the North China Plain, Environmental Earth Sciences. 2015, 74: 1415-1427.
Hu L.T. and Jiao J.J.J., Calibration of a large-scale groundwater flow model using GRACE data: a case study in the Qaidam Basin, China, Hydrogeology Journal. 2015, 23: 1305-1317.
Jiao J.J.J., Zhang X., LIU Y. and Kuang X., Increased Water Storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data, PloS one . 2015, 10: e0141442.
KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and Chan L.S., A preliminary study on the offshore stratigraphy in Hong Kong and its hydrogeological implications, Environmental Earth Sciences. 2016, 75.
KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and LIU K., Geochemical signature of pore water from core samples and its implications on the origin of saline pore water in Cangzhou, North China Plain, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION . 2015, 157: 143-152.
KWONG H.T. and Jiao J.J.J., Hydrochemical reactions and origin of offshore relatively fresh pore water from core samples in Hong Kong, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 537: 283-296.
Kuang X. and Jiao J.J.J., Review on climate change on the Tibetan Plateau during the last half century, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2016, 121: 3979-4007.
LIU Y., Kuang X., Jiao J.J.J. and Li J.J.J., Numerical study of variable-density flow and transport in unsaturated–saturated porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2015, 182: 117-130.
LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Wang X. and LIU K., Temporal 222Rn distributions to reveal groundwater discharge into desert lakes: Implication of water balance in the Badain Jaran Desert, China, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 534: 87-103.
Wang X.J., Li H.L., LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Qu W.J. and Wang C.Y., Using 224Ra to estimate eddy diffusivity and submarine groundwater discharge in Laizhou Bay, China, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 2016, 308: 403-411.
Wang Y., Jiao J.J.J., Zhang K. and Zhou Y., Enrichment and mechanisms of heavy metal mobility in a coastal quaternary groundwater system of the Pearl River Delta, China, Science of The Total Environment. 2016, 545-546: 493-502.


Researcher : KONG D

List of Research Outputs

KONG D., TSE Y.Y., Jia G., Wei G., Chen M., Zong Y. and Liu Z., Cooling trend over the past 4 centuries in northeastern Hong Kong waters as revealed by alkenone-derived SST records, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 114: 497-503.


Researcher : KWONG HT

List of Research Outputs

KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and Chan L.S., A preliminary study on the offshore stratigraphy in Hong Kong and its hydrogeological implications, Environmental Earth Sciences. 2016, 75.
KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and LIU K., Geochemical signature of pore water from core samples and its implications on the origin of saline pore water in Cangzhou, North China Plain, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION . 2015, 157: 143-152.
KWONG H.T. and Jiao J.J.J., Hydrochemical reactions and origin of offshore relatively fresh pore water from core samples in Hong Kong, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 537: 283-296.


Researcher : Kuang X

Project Title:Impact of ice melting due to global warming in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau on groundwater flow systems in Asia
Investigator(s):Kuang X, Jiao JJJ, Wu PPC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:AXA Research Fund
Start Date:08/2014


List of Research Outputs

Jiao J.J.J., Zhang X., LIU Y. and Kuang X., Increased Water Storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data, PloS one . 2015, 10: e0141442.
Kuang X., Air and water flows induced by water level change in aquifers, Global Scientists Forum, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China, 18–19 March. 2016.
Kuang X., An integrated permeability-depth model for Earth's crust, The First International Young Scholars Forum, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China, 18–20 December. 2015.
Kuang X. and Jiao J.J.J., Review on climate change on the Tibetan Plateau during the last half century, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2016, 121: 3979-4007.
LIU Y., Kuang X., Jiao J.J.J. and Li J.J.J., Numerical study of variable-density flow and transport in unsaturated–saturated porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2015, 182: 117-130.


Researcher : Kwok S

Project Title:36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Evolved Stars Prebiotic Molecules in the Circumstellar Environment
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2006


Project Title:Chemical Synthesis in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Earth as a Habitable Planet
Investigator(s):Kwok S, Shih K
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:Organic Matter in Space
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:XXIX IAU General Assembly; Water and Organics in the Universe: an introduction
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Observations and Simulations of Multipolar Planetary Nebulae
Investigator(s):Kwok S, Zhang Y
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2015


List of Research Outputs

Kwok S., Complex organics in space from Solar System to distant galaxies, The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. 2016, 24: 1-27.
Kwok S., Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, May 24, National Resarch Council of Canada, Victoria, Canada. 2016.


Researcher : LI J

List of Research Outputs

LI J., Chan L.S. and Li Y., The blueberry (iron nodule) from the Shark Bay area, Western Australia and its implication to the genetic environments of iron nodules on Mars, Science China Earth Sciences. 2016, 59: 640-650.
Li J., Dong S., Yin A., Zhang Y. and Shi W., Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Daba Shan Thrust Belt in the southern Qinling orogen, central China: Constraints from surface geology and reflection seismology, Tectonics. 2015, 34: 1545-1575.
Li J., Dong S., Zhang Y., Zhao G., Johnston S., Cui J. and Xin Y., New Insights Into Phanerozoic Tectonics Of South China: Part 1, Polyphase Deformation In The Jiuling And Lianyunshan Domains Of The Central Jiangnan Orogen, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2016, 121: 3048-3080.
Li J., Shi W., Zhang Y., Dong S. and Ma Z., Thermal evolution of the Hengshan extensional dome in central South China and its tectonic implications: New insights into low-angle detachment formation, Gondwana Research. 2015, 35: 425-441.


Researcher : LI X

List of Research Outputs

LI X., Zhao X., Zhou M.F., CHEN W. and Chu Z., Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe-Cu-(REE) Deposit, Southwest China, Economic Geology. 2015, 110: 1339-1369.
LI X. and Zhou M.F., Multiple stages of hydrothermal REE remobilization recorded in fluorapatite in the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe–Cu–(REE) deposit, Southwest China, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2015, 166: 53-73.
Zong Y., Huang G., LI X. and SUN Y., Late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level change and lithostratigraphy along the northern coast of the South China Sea, Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 2016, 429: 123-136.


Researcher : LI X

List of Research Outputs

LI X., Zhao X., Zhou M.F., CHEN W. and Chu Z., Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe-Cu-(REE) Deposit, Southwest China, Economic Geology. 2015, 110: 1339-1369.
LI X. and Zhou M.F., Multiple stages of hydrothermal REE remobilization recorded in fluorapatite in the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe–Cu–(REE) deposit, Southwest China, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2015, 166: 53-73.
Zong Y., Huang G., LI X. and SUN Y., Late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level change and lithostratigraphy along the northern coast of the South China Sea, Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 2016, 429: 123-136.


Researcher : LIU K

List of Research Outputs

KWONG H.T., Jiao J.J.J. and LIU K., Geochemical signature of pore water from core samples and its implications on the origin of saline pore water in Cangzhou, North China Plain, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION . 2015, 157: 143-152.
LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Wang X. and LIU K., Temporal 222Rn distributions to reveal groundwater discharge into desert lakes: Implication of water balance in the Badain Jaran Desert, China, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 534: 87-103.


Researcher : LIU P

List of Research Outputs

LIU P., Zhou M.F., Y D.P., Zhao G., S S.G. and W X.L., The Shangzhuang Fe-Ti oxide-bearing layered mafic intrusion, northeast of Beijing (North China): Implications for the mantle source of the giant Late Mesozoic magmatic event in the North China Craton, Lithos. 2015, 231: 1-15.


Researcher : LIU Q

List of Research Outputs

HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : LIU Y

List of Research Outputs

Jiao J.J.J., Zhang X., LIU Y. and Kuang X., Increased Water Storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data, PloS one . 2015, 10: e0141442.
LIU Y., Kuang X., Jiao J.J.J. and Li J.J.J., Numerical study of variable-density flow and transport in unsaturated–saturated porous media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2015, 182: 117-130.


Researcher : LUO X

List of Research Outputs

LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Wang X. and LIU K., Temporal 222Rn distributions to reveal groundwater discharge into desert lakes: Implication of water balance in the Badain Jaran Desert, China, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 534: 87-103.
Wang X.J., Li H.L., LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Qu W.J. and Wang C.Y., Using 224Ra to estimate eddy diffusivity and submarine groundwater discharge in Laizhou Bay, China, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 2016, 308: 403-411.


Researcher : LV K

List of Research Outputs

LV K., Norman L.H. and Li Y., Restrictions on the production of multi-wall carbon nanotubes and nanofibers by Gallionella sp., Geomicrobiology Journal. 2015, 33: 709-715.


Researcher : Lee MH

Project Title:Dynamics and Origins of Outer Solar System Configurations
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2011


Project Title:Dynamics and Origins of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2013


Project Title:Three-dimensional Structures of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

Brasser R. and Lee M.H., TILTING SATURN WITHOUT TILTING JUPITER: CONSTRAINTS ON GIANT PLANET MIGRATION, The Astronomical Journal. The American Astronomical Society, 2015, 150(5): 157:1-18.
NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A Re-examination of the Relationship between Empirical Maximum Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclone and Sea Surface Temperature, 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, PR, USA. 2016.
Trifonov T.H., Lee M.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., New Evidence for Planets on S-type Orbits in Close Binary Systems, Extreme Solar Systems III, Waikoloa, HI, USA. 2015.


Researcher : Lemke KH

Project Title:Monitoring stable carbonate nanoclusters in simulated seawater using Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:Experimental studies of the molecular properties and geochemistry of prenucleation clusters
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:AGU 2012 Fall Meeting ; FT-ICR mass spectrometric and density functional theory studies of sulfate prenucleation clusters
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2012


Project Title:Experimental and theoretical studies of metal speciation in hydrothermal ore fluids
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Experimental and Computational Studies of Molybdate and Tungstate Clusters in Porphyry Ore Fluids
Investigator(s):Lemke KH, Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2014


Project Title:2014 GSA Annual Meeting ; MASS SPECTROMETRIC AND QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES OF HYDRATED GOLD-COPPER CLUSTERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR AU AND CU TRANSPORT IN LOW DENSITY CRUSTAL FLUIDS
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2014


List of Research Outputs

Lemke K.H. and Tanjaroon C., Structures of Solvated Metal Ion Clusters by Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation (IRMPD) Spectroscopy and ab Initio Calculations , Goldschmidt2015, Prague, CZ. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2015, 1822.
Lemke K.H. and Tanjaroon C., Structures of solvated metal ion clusters by infrared multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, 2015.
Slanina Z., Lu X., Uhlik F., Akasaka T., Lemke K.H., Seward T.M., Nagase S. and Adamowicz L., Calculations of the water-dimer encapsulations into C84, Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures . Taylor & Francis, 2015, 24: 1-7.
Stefansson A., Seward T.M. and Lemke K.H., Iron Speciation in Hydrothermal Solutions – An Experimental and Theoretical Study, Goldschmidt2015. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2982.


Researcher : Li B

List of Research Outputs

GONG Z., Li S.H. and Li B., Late Quaternary faulting on the Manas and Hutubi reverse faults in the northern foreland basin of Tian Shan, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2015, 424: 212-225.


Researcher : Li J

List of Research Outputs

LI J., Chan L.S. and Li Y., The blueberry (iron nodule) from the Shark Bay area, Western Australia and its implication to the genetic environments of iron nodules on Mars, Science China Earth Sciences. 2016, 59: 640-650.
Li J., Dong S., Yin A., Zhang Y. and Shi W., Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Daba Shan Thrust Belt in the southern Qinling orogen, central China: Constraints from surface geology and reflection seismology, Tectonics. 2015, 34: 1545-1575.
Li J., Dong S., Zhang Y., Zhao G., Johnston S., Cui J. and Xin Y., New Insights Into Phanerozoic Tectonics Of South China: Part 1, Polyphase Deformation In The Jiuling And Lianyunshan Domains Of The Central Jiangnan Orogen, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2016, 121: 3048-3080.
Li J., Shi W., Zhang Y., Dong S. and Ma Z., Thermal evolution of the Hengshan extensional dome in central South China and its tectonic implications: New insights into low-angle detachment formation, Gondwana Research. 2015, 35: 425-441.


Researcher : Li P

Project Title:Structural and chronological constraints on the Altai Formation of the Qiongkur Terrane (North Xinjiang): implications for accretion processes of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Investigator(s):Li P, Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2014
Completion Date:12/2015


Project Title:The EGU General Assembly 2016; Late Paleozoic closure of the Ob-Zaisan Ocean along the Irtysh/Chara shear zone and implications for arc amalgamation and oroclinal bending in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt/Oroclinal bending in the New England Orogen, eastern Australia
Investigator(s):Li P
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:04/2016




Researcher : Li SH

Project Title:Luminescence dating of late Quaternary shorelines from Lake Manas, northern China
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ROCKS FROM SOUTH-EAST TIBETAN PLATEAU
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2014


Project Title:4th Asia Pacific Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference; Thermoluminescence geothermometry-Otway Basin revisit
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

GONG Z., Li S.H. and Li B., Late Quaternary faulting on the Manas and Hutubi reverse faults in the northern foreland basin of Tian Shan, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2015, 424: 212-225.
Li S.H., Dating of feldspar with and without anomalous fading signals, Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Track Dating Methods, Kanazawa, Japan. 2016.
Li S.H., Fundamentals of alpha dosimetry, Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Track Dating Methods, Kanazawa, Japan. 2016.
Li S.H., Late Quaternary Faults Activities in North Tianshan, China, May 9, 2016 in Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources. 2016.
Li S.H., OSL Chronology for Palaeo-lake Shorelines: Prospects and Challenges, 13th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Lanzhou, China.. 2015.
Li S.H., Quaternary Geochronology. 2016.
SONG M., Zhou A., Zhang X., Zhao C., He Y., Yang W., Liu W., Li S.H. and Liu Z., Solar imprints on Asian inland moisture fluctuations over the last millennium, The Holocene. 2015, 25: 1935-1943.


Researcher : Li Y

Project Title:The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference Thermophiles as candidate iron-reducing bacteria for the putative biogenic magnetite in banded iron formations
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2008


Project Title:Mineral and elemental hyperfine structures in banded iron formations from Eoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic eons: clues for the earliest life, Oxygen Oases, phosphatization and climatic cycles
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:Scytonemin as a new biomarker for tracing the emergence and early evolution of oxygenic cyanobacteria
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Electron microscopic, X-ray absorption and vibrational spectroscopic investigation on the fine structures of spheroidal phosphorite in Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation in southwest China
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

LI J., Chan L.S. and Li Y., The blueberry (iron nodule) from the Shark Bay area, Western Australia and its implication to the genetic environments of iron nodules on Mars, Science China Earth Sciences. 2016, 59: 640-650.
LV K., Norman L.H. and Li Y., Restrictions on the production of multi-wall carbon nanotubes and nanofibers by Gallionella sp., Geomicrobiology Journal. 2015, 33: 709-715.


Researcher : Li YL

Project Title:The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference Thermophiles as candidate iron-reducing bacteria for the putative biogenic magnetite in banded iron formations
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2008


Project Title:Mineral and elemental hyperfine structures in banded iron formations from Eoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic eons: clues for the earliest life, Oxygen Oases, phosphatization and climatic cycles
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:Scytonemin as a new biomarker for tracing the emergence and early evolution of oxygenic cyanobacteria
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Electron microscopic, X-ray absorption and vibrational spectroscopic investigation on the fine structures of spheroidal phosphorite in Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation in southwest China
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Liu Z

Project Title:Eutrophication and Associated Hypoxia in Lingding Bay and Adjacent Coastal Waters: Biogeochemical Processes and Sedimentary Records
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:01/2011


Project Title:Temperature and Salinity Variations in the South China Sea over the Last 2000 Years
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2012-13
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Reconstructing detailed sea surface temperature and atmospheric CO2 changes across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2014


List of Research Outputs

He Y., Zhao C., SONG M., Liu W., Chen F., Zhang D. and Liu Z., Onset of frequent dust storms in northern China at D 1100, Scientific Reports. 2015, 5: 17111.
He Y., Zhao C., Zheng Z., Liu Z., Wang N., Li J. and Cheddadi R., Peatland evolution and associated environmental changes in central China over the past 40,000 years, Quaternary Research. Elsevier, 2015, 84: 255-261.
Hou J., Huang Y., Zhao J., Liu Z., Colman S. and An Z., Large Holocene summer temperature oscillations and impact on the peopling of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geophysical Research Letters. 2016, 43: 1323-1330.
KONG D., TSE Y.Y., Jia G., Wei G., Chen M., Zong Y. and Liu Z., Cooling trend over the past 4 centuries in northeastern Hong Kong waters as revealed by alkenone-derived SST records, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 114: 497-503.
Li Y.X., Jiao W.J., Liu Z., Jin J.H., Wang D.H., He Y.X. and Quan C., Terrestrial responses of low-latitude Asia to the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition revealed by integrated chronostratigraphy, Climate of the Past. 2016, 12: 255-272.
Liu Z., Associate Editor, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2016.
Liu Z., Associate Editor, In: Editor-in-chief: M. Chen, Quaternary International. 2015.
Ma Z., Ravelo A.C., Liu Z., Zhou L. and Paytan A., Export production fluctuations in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the Pliocene-Pleistocene: Reconstruction using barite accumulation rates, Paleoceanography. 2015, 30: 1455-1469.
SONG M., Zhou A., He Y., Zhao C., Wu J., Zhao Y., Liu W. and Liu Z., Environmental controls on long-chain alkenone occurrence and compositional patterns in lacustrine sediments, northwestern China, Organic Geochemistry. 2016, 91: 43-53.
SONG M., Zhou A., Zhang X., Zhao C., He Y., Yang W., Liu W., Li S.H. and Liu Z., Solar imprints on Asian inland moisture fluctuations over the last millennium, The Holocene. 2015, 25: 1935-1943.
Wang Z., Liu Z., Zhang F., Fu M. and An Z., A new approach for reconstructing Holocene temperatures from a multi-species long chain alkenone record from Lake Qinghai on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Organic Geochemistry. 2015, 88: 50-58.


Researcher : Malpas JG

Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2003-2004
Investigator(s):Malpas JG
Department:President's Office
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:10/2004


Project Title:Investigation of the causes and consequence of Acid Mine waters in disused open pit Cu-Fe sulphide mines
Investigator(s):Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:09/2009




Researcher : NG KS-C

List of Research Outputs

NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A Re-examination of the Relationship between Empirical Maximum Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclone and Sea Surface Temperature, 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, PR, USA. 2016.


Researcher : Ng SWP

Project Title:Petrogenesis and geochronology of the Southeast Asian tin-bearing granites and their hosting basement rocks
Investigator(s):Ng SWP, Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Ng S.W.P., Searle M.P., Whitehouse M.J., Chung S.L., Ghani A.A., Robb L.J., Sone M., Oliver G.J.H., Gardiner N.J. and Roselee M.H., Petrogenesis of Malaysian Granitoids in the Southeast Asian Tin Belt, The Geological Society of London CPD seminar. 2016.


Researcher : Norman LH

List of Research Outputs

LV K., Norman L.H. and Li Y., Restrictions on the production of multi-wall carbon nanotubes and nanofibers by Gallionella sp., Geomicrobiology Journal. 2015, 33: 709-715.


Researcher : Not CA

Project Title:INQUAA; Sedimentology and chronology of sediment cores from Arctic Ocean Ridges: insights from U-series isotopes
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Unravelling the potential of Trace elements in ostracodes as environmental paleoproxies in Hong Kong marine ecosystem.
Investigator(s):Not CA, Yasuhara M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:Unravelling the impact of submarine groundwater discharge on heavy metals and trace elements cycling in Tolo Harbour waters
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Hung Hing Ying Physical Sciences Research Fund
Start Date:01/2016


List of Research Outputs

Not C.A. and Hillaire-Marcel C., Sedimentology and chronology of sediment cores from Arctic Ocean Ridges: insights from U-series isotopes, INQUAA. 2015.
Not C.A., Thibodeau B. and Yokohama Y., Trace element (Mg, Sr, Ba and U) incorporation in culture high Mg-calcite benthic foraminifera under controlled pCO2: a multi-elemental perspective , Goldschmidt. 2016.
Not C.A., Variability of particle fluxes and its implication for Paleoclimate reconstruction over the last 400 000 years in the Central of the Arctic Ocean, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). 2016.


Researcher : Pei R

List of Research Outputs

Pittman M.D., Xu X., Ali J.R., Pei R., Ma W.S., Meng J. and Bi S.D., Insights into iguanodontian dental architecture from an Early Cretaceous Chinese basal hadrosauriform maxilla (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), PeerJ PrePrints. 2015, 3: e1636.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Tan Q.W. and Xu X., The first dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation of Nei Mongol, China, PeerJ. 2015, 3: e1480.


Researcher : Pittman MD

Project Title:Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) imaging of exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaurs to reveal hidden data
Investigator(s):Pittman MD
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:Reassessing dromaeosaurid evolutionary relationships and understanding of dromaeosaurid evolutionary novelties
Investigator(s):Pittman MD, Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2015


Project Title:Bayesian inference of the dinosaur-bird transition
Investigator(s):Pittman MD, Pei R
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2016


List of Research Outputs

Mallison H., Pittman M.D. and Schwarz D., Using crocodilian tails as models for dinosaur tails, PeerJ PrePrints. 2015.
Pittman M.D., Stiegler J.B. and Xu X., A new parvicursorine alvarezsauroid specimen IVPP V20341 (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Gobi Basin: a specimen of Linhenykus or an eighth genus?, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2015, 196.
Pittman M.D., Desert dinosaurs: insights from an arid Late Cretaceous ecosystem, HK Institute of Engineers, The Veneer Club: Tea Gathering. HK Institute of Engineers, 2015.
Pittman M.D., Xu X., Ali J.R., Pei R., Ma W.S., Meng J. and Bi S.D., Insights into iguanodontian dental architecture from an Early Cretaceous Chinese basal hadrosauriform maxilla (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), PeerJ PrePrints. 2015, 3: e1636.
Pittman M.D., Journal Editor (for submissions on vertebrate palaeontology and vertebrate biomechanics), RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes). Pensoft, 2015.
Pittman M.D., Scientific advisor for National Geographic Channel's international dinosaur exhibition ' T-Rex Revealed - The Augmented Reality Experience', National Geographic Channel. 2015.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Tan Q.W. and Xu X., The first dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation of Nei Mongol, China, PeerJ. 2015, 3: e1480.


Researcher : SONG M

List of Research Outputs

He Y., Zhao C., SONG M., Liu W., Chen F., Zhang D. and Liu Z., Onset of frequent dust storms in northern China at D 1100, Scientific Reports. 2015, 5: 17111.
SONG M., Zhou A., He Y., Zhao C., Wu J., Zhao Y., Liu W. and Liu Z., Environmental controls on long-chain alkenone occurrence and compositional patterns in lacustrine sediments, northwestern China, Organic Geochemistry. 2016, 91: 43-53.
SONG M., Zhou A., Zhang X., Zhao C., He Y., Yang W., Liu W., Li S.H. and Liu Z., Solar imprints on Asian inland moisture fluctuations over the last millennium, The Holocene. 2015, 25: 1935-1943.


Researcher : SUN Y

List of Research Outputs

Zong Y., Huang G., LI X. and SUN Y., Late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level change and lithostratigraphy along the northern coast of the South China Sea, Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 2016, 429: 123-136.


Researcher : Sun M

Project Title:Petrogenesis and precise geochronology of the Fuping-Wutai-Hengshan metamorphic complexes
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for NSFC Young Researcher Award
Start Date:04/2001


Project Title:Age,petrogenesis and tectonic background of the Paleozic granitoids in the Russian and Mongolian Altai
Investigator(s):Sun M, Geng H, Jiang Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Understanding the accretionary history of the Altai-Mongolian terrane: a geochemical and geochronological approach through the study of granitic rocks
Investigator(s):Sun M, Cai K
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:New techniques of in-situ Nd isotopic analysis by Laser Ablation – High Resolution -Multiple Collector - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (LA-HR-MC-ICP-MS) and its application to the petrogenetic study of granitoids in eastern South China
Investigator(s):Sun M, Wong PM
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2013
Completion Date:06/2016


Project Title:Tectonothermal history of the high-grade metamorphic rocks in the southern Altai Range, Central Asia
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme - Travel Grants
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:12/2015


Project Title:Nd-Hf isotopic decoupling in the Chinese Altai granitoids: causes and tectonic interpretation
Investigator(s):Sun M, Jiang Y, Wong PM
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Method development on isotopic dating of apatite by Laser Ablation – Multiple Collector - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (LA-MC-ICP-MS)
Investigator(s):Sun M, Wong PM
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Assessment of lower crust structure and compositions of the West Junggar: a geophysical and geochemical approach
Investigator(s):Sun M, Geng H
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Hf-in-zircon isotopic heterogeneity in igneous rocks: real or analytical artifact?
Investigator(s):Sun M, Wong PM, Geng H
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Reconstruction of the Late Paleozoic collisional processes between the Chinese Altai and the East Junggar
Investigator(s):Sun M, Li P
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016; Devonian granitoids and their hosted mafic enclaves in the Gorny Altai terrane, northwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: crust-mantle interaction in a continental arc setting/Whole-rock Nd-Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: constraints on the nature of basement and tectonic setting
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:04/2016


Project Title:The global tectonic setting of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Zhou H. and Sun M., Geochemistry and geochronology of the Delinggou Intrusion: Implications for the subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean beneath the North China Craton, Gondwana Research. 2016.
CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M., Cai K.D., Zhao G., Kulikova A.V. and Rubanova E.S., Crustal melting and magma mixing in a continental arc setting: Evidence from the Yaloman intrusive complex in the Gorny Altai terrane, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Lithos. 2016, 252-253: 76-91.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M.M., Zhao G., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Detrital zircon record of the early Paleozoic meta-sedimentary rocks in Russian Altai: Implications on their provenance and the tectonic nature of the Altai–Mongolian terrane, Lithos. 2015, 233: 209-222.
CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M.M., Cai K., Zhao G., Zheng J., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Neoproterozoic–middle Paleozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Gorny Altai terrane, northwest of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf-isotope studies, Lithos. 2015, 233: 223-236.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M., Zhao G., Jiang Y., Rubanova E., Kulikova A. and Voytishek E., The early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Russian Altai: Implications from geochemical and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic studies of meta-sedimentary complexes in the Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan suture zone, Gondwana Research. 2016, 34: 1-15.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G. and Yuan C., U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic record of zircons from the late Neoproterozoic and Silurian–Devonian sedimentary rocks of the western Yangtze Block: Implications for its tectonic evolution and continental affinity, Gondwana Research. 2016, 31: 184-199.
Cai K., Sun M., Jahn B.-.M., Xiao W., Yuan C., Long X., Chen H. and Tumurkhuu D., A synthesis of zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic compositions of granitoids from Southwest Mongolia: Implications for crustal nature and tectonic evolution of the Altai Superterrane, Lithos. 2015, 232: 131-142.
Cai K., Sun M., Buslov M., Jahn B.-.M., Xiao W., Long X., Chen H., Wan B., CHEN M., Rubanova E.S., Kulikova A.V. and Voytishek E.E., Crustal nature and origin of the Russian Altai: Implications for the continental evolution and growth of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), Tectonophysics. 2016, 674: 182-194.
Chen B., Long X., Yuan C., Wang Y., Sun M., Xiao W., Cai K.D. and Huang Z., Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Ordovician–Early Devonian gneissic granites in the Kumishi area, northern margin of the South Tianshan Belt: Constraints on subduction process of the South Tianshan Ocean, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 113: 293-309.
EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
Sun M., Zhao G. and Li S.Z., State Natural Science Award (2nd Class; First Awardee), State Council of P.R.China. 2015.
Yin C., Zhao G. and Sun M., High-pressure pelitic granulites from the Helanshan Complex in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton: Metamorphic P-t path and tectonic implications, American Journal of Science. 2015, 315: 846-879.
Yin J., Chen W., Xiao W., Yuan C., Sun M., Tang G., Yu S., Long X., Cai K., Geng H., Zhang Y. and Liu X., Petrogenesis of Early-Permian sanukitoids from West Junggar, Northwest China: Implications for Late Paleozoic crustal growth in Central Asia, Tectonophysics. 2015, 662: 385-397.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.
Zhang Y., Sun M., Yuan C., Xu Y., Long X., Tomurhuu D., Wang C.Y. and He B., Magma mixing origin for high Ba–Sr granitic pluton in the Bayankhongor area, central Mongolia: Response to slab roll-back, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 113: 353-368.
Zhang Y., Yuan C., Sun M., Long X., Xia X., Wang X. and Huang Z., Permian doleritic dikes in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, NW China: Asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction in response to slab break-off, Lithos. 2015, 233: 174-192.


Researcher : Switzer AD

Project Title:Imbricated and non-imbricated mega clasts from Green Island (Lu Tao), southeast Taiwan: implications for washover studies
Investigator(s):Switzer AD
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009




Researcher : TSE YY

List of Research Outputs

KONG D., TSE Y.Y., Jia G., Wei G., Chen M., Zong Y. and Liu Z., Cooling trend over the past 4 centuries in northeastern Hong Kong waters as revealed by alkenone-derived SST records, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 114: 497-503.


Researcher : Tanjaroon C

List of Research Outputs

Lemke K.H. and Tanjaroon C., Structures of Solvated Metal Ion Clusters by Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation (IRMPD) Spectroscopy and ab Initio Calculations , Goldschmidt2015, Prague, CZ. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2015, 1822.
Lemke K.H. and Tanjaroon C., Structures of solvated metal ion clusters by infrared multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, 2015.


Researcher : Thibodeau B

Project Title:XIX INQUA 2015 ; Stratification-induced variations in nutrient utilization in the Polar North Atlantic during past interglacials
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Coral reefs nitrogen cycling traced by stable isotopes-labeled compounds
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B, Baker DM, Duprey NN
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2015


Project Title:A State-or-the-Art Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory at HKU
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Not C.A., Thibodeau B. and Yokohama Y., Trace element (Mg, Sr, Ba and U) incorporation in culture high Mg-calcite benthic foraminifera under controlled pCO2: a multi-elemental perspective , Goldschmidt. 2016.
Thibodeau B. and Bauch D., The impact of climatic and atmospheric teleconnections on the brine inventory over the Laptev Sea shelf between 2007 and 2011, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2016, 17: 56-64.
Thibodeau B., Migon C., Dufour A., Poirier A. and Mari X., Vertical flux of particulate matter in low productivity environments: A tale from the North, Gordon Research Conference. 2016.


Researcher : Trifonov TH

Project Title:Extreme Solar Systems III; New Evidence for Planets on S-type Orbits in Close Binary Systems
Investigator(s):Trifonov TH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:12/2015


List of Research Outputs

Trifonov T.H., Lee M.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., New Evidence for Planets on S-type Orbits in Close Binary Systems, Extreme Solar Systems III, Waikoloa, HI, USA. 2015.


Researcher : WANG B

List of Research Outputs

HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.


Researcher : WANG N

List of Research Outputs

CHEUNG M.C., Zong Y., WANG N., Aitchison J.C. and Zheng Z., δ13Corg and n-alkane evidence for changing wetland conditions during a stable mid-late Holocene climate in the central Tibetan Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2015, 438: 203-212.


Researcher : Wang J

List of Research Outputs

Wang J., Chang S., Lu H. and Zhang H., Detrital zircon provenance of the Wangshi and Laiyang groups of the Jiaolai basin: evidence for Early Cretaceous uplift of the Sulu orogen, Eastern China, International Geology Review. 2016, 58: 719-736.
Wang J., Chang S., Wang K., Lu H. and Zhang H., Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous igneous units from the central Sulu orogenic belt: Evidence for crustal delamination during a shift in the regional tectonic regime, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 112: 49-59.
Zheng D., Xu H., Wang J., Fang C., Zhang H. and Chang S., Geochronologic Age Constraints On The Middle Devonian Hujiersite Flora Of Xinjiang, Nw China. , Conference On Earth System Science, Shanghai (2016). 2016.


Researcher : Wang X

List of Research Outputs

LUO X., Jiao J.J.J., Wang X. and LIU K., Temporal 222Rn distributions to reveal groundwater discharge into desert lakes: Implication of water balance in the Badain Jaran Desert, China, Journal of Hydrology. 2016, 534: 87-103.


Researcher : Wong NY

Project Title:Fundamentals of rockfall mechanism - an integrated experimental and numerical study
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:ICEGE 2016 : 18th International Conference on Earthquake and Geological Engineering; Experimental and Numerical Studies on Earthquake Shear Rupture Generation
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2016
Completion Date:05/2016


List of Research Outputs

Cheng Y. and Wong N.Y., Occurrence of Foreshocks in Large Earthquakes with Strike‐Slip Rupturing, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 2016, 106: 213-224.
Cheng Y., Wong N.Y. and Maruvanchery V., Transgranular Crack Nucleation in Carrara Marble of Brittle Failure, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2016.
Fang Q., Tai Q., Zhang D. and Wong N.Y., Ground surface settlements due to construction of closely-spaced twin tunnels with different geometric arrangements, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 2016, 51: 144-151.
Tang Z.C., Jiao Y.Y., Wong N.Y. and Wang X.C., Choosing Appropriate Parameters for Developing Empirical Shear Strength Criterion of Rock Joint: Review and New Insights, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2016.
Tang Z.C., Xia C.C., Jiao Y.Y. and Wong N.Y., Closure model with asperity interaction in normal contact for rock joint, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2016, 83: 170-173.
Tang Z.C., Huang R.Q., Liu Q.S. and Wong N.Y., Effect of contact state on the shear behavior of artificial rock joint, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 2016, 75: 761-769.
Tang Z.C. and Wong N.Y., Influences of Normal Loading Rate and Shear Velocity on the Shear Behavior of Artificial Rock Joints, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2016, 49: 2165-2172.
Tang Z.C. and Wong N.Y., New Criterion for Evaluating the Peak Shear Strength of Rock Joints Under Different Contact States, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2016, 49: 1191-1199.
Wong N.Y., Maruvanchery V. and Oo N.N., Engineering properties of a low-grade metamorphic limestone, Engineering Geology. 2015, 193: 348-362.
Wong N.Y., Experimental and numerical studies on earthquake shear rupture generation, 18th International Conference on Earthquake and Geological Engineering. 2016.
Wong N.Y., How do rocks fail?, International Conference on Engineering Geology in New Millennium. 2015.
Wong N.Y., Maruvanchery V. and Liu G., Water effects on rock strength and stiffness degradation, Acta Geotechnica. 2015.
Zou C., Wong N.Y., Loo J.J. and Gan B.S., Different mechanical and cracking behaviors of single-flawed brittle gypsum specimens under dynamic and quasi-static loadings, Engineering Geology. 2016, 201: 71-84.
Zou C. and Wong N.Y., Size and Geometry Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Carrara Marble Under Dynamic Loadings, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2016, 49: 1695-1708.


Researcher : Wu PPC

Project Title:Construction of late Pleistocene ice histories on Earth models with Composite Rheology
Investigator(s):Wu PPC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2014


List of Research Outputs

Brandes C., Steffen H., Steffen R. and Wu P.P.C., Intraplate seismicity in northern Central Europe is induced by the last glaciation, Geology. Geological Society of America, 2015, 43: 611 - 614.
Steffen R., Steffen H., Eaton D. and Wu P.P.C., Reply to comment by Hampel et al. on “Stress and fault parameters affecting fault slip magnitude and activation time during a glacial cycle”, Tectonics. AGU, 2015, 34: 2359-2366.
Wang H.S., Xiang L., Jia L., Wu P.P.C., Steffen H., Jiang L. and Shen Q., Water storage changes in North America retrieved from GRACE gravity and GPS data, Geodesy and Geodynamics. 2015, 6: 267- 273.


Researcher : Yin C

List of Research Outputs

Yin C., Zhao G. and Sun M., High-pressure pelitic granulites from the Helanshan Complex in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton: Metamorphic P-t path and tectonic implications, American Journal of Science. 2015, 315: 846-879.


Researcher : ZHANG X

List of Research Outputs

HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
Jiao J.J.J., Zhang X., LIU Y. and Kuang X., Increased Water Storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data, PloS one . 2015, 10: e0141442.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : ZHU Y

List of Research Outputs

ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : Zhang J

List of Research Outputs

EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.


Researcher : Zhang X

List of Research Outputs

HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
Jiao J.J.J., Zhang X., LIU Y. and Kuang X., Increased Water Storage in the Qaidam Basin, the North Tibet Plateau from GRACE Gravity Data, PloS one . 2015, 10: e0141442.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.


Researcher : Zhao G

Project Title:Precambrian Geology and Metamorphic Geology
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for NSFC Young Researcher Award
Start Date:01/2005


Project Title:Determining the age and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Khondalite Belt in the Western Block of the North China Craton
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Zhang J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Tracing the provenance of clastic sediments from Paleozoic strata on the northern margin of the Tarim craton
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Timing of closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: constrained by tracing the provenances of detrital zircons from the Ordor Sum suture zone
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:06/2016


Project Title:Geochemistry and geochronology of the Delingou pluton at the northern margin of the North China Craton and tectonic implications
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2015


Project Title:Was the Paleo-Asian Ocean subducted beneath North China? – An integrated geological and seismic imaging study
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Tectonic nature and ages of the Heilongjiang Complex, Northeast China
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Li J, Yu S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2016


List of Research Outputs

Bi J., Ge W., Yang H., Zhao G., Xu W. and Wang Z., Geochronology, geochemistry and zircon Hf isotopes of the Dongfanghong gabbroic complex at the eastern margin of the Jiamusi Massif, NE China: Petrogensis and tectonic implications, Lithos. 2015, 234-235: 27-46.
CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Zhou H. and Sun M., Geochemistry and geochronology of the Delinggou Intrusion: Implications for the subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean beneath the North China Craton, Gondwana Research. 2016.
CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M., Cai K.D., Zhao G., Kulikova A.V. and Rubanova E.S., Crustal melting and magma mixing in a continental arc setting: Evidence from the Yaloman intrusive complex in the Gorny Altai terrane, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Lithos. 2016, 252-253: 76-91.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M.M., Zhao G., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Detrital zircon record of the early Paleozoic meta-sedimentary rocks in Russian Altai: Implications on their provenance and the tectonic nature of the Altai–Mongolian terrane, Lithos. 2015, 233: 209-222.
CHEN M., Sun M., Buslov M.M., Cai K., Zhao G., Zheng J., Rubanova E.S. and Voytishek E.E., Neoproterozoic–middle Paleozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Gorny Altai terrane, northwest of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf-isotope studies, Lithos. 2015, 233: 223-236.
CHEN M., Sun M., Cai K., Buslov M., Zhao G., Jiang Y., Rubanova E., Kulikova A. and Voytishek E., The early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Russian Altai: Implications from geochemical and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic studies of meta-sedimentary complexes in the Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan suture zone, Gondwana Research. 2016, 34: 1-15.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G. and Yuan C., U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic record of zircons from the late Neoproterozoic and Silurian–Devonian sedimentary rocks of the western Yangtze Block: Implications for its tectonic evolution and continental affinity, Gondwana Research. 2016, 31: 184-199.
Dong Y., Ge W., Zhao G., Yang H., Liu X. and Zhang Y., Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Late Paleozoic Xing’an complex in the northern Great Xing’an Range, NE China: Constraints from geochronology, geochemistry and zircon Hf isotopes, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2016, 115: 228-246.
EIZENHOEFER P.R., Zhao G., Sun M., Zhang J., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronological and Hf isotopic variability of detrital zircons in Paleozoic strata across the accretionary collision zone between the North China craton and Mongolian arcs and tectonic implications, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 127: 1422-1436.
Ge W., Chen J., Yang H., Zhao G., Zhang Y. and Tian D., Tectonic implications of new zircon U–Pb ages for the Xinghuadukou Complex, Erguna Massif, northern Great Xing’an Range, NE China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 106: 169-185.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., Liu D. and Xu B., Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the initial uplift and denudation of the Chinese western Tianshan after the assembly of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Sedimentary Geology. 2016, 339: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X., LIU Q., WANG B., Liu D. and Xu B., Late Paleozoic subduction and collision processes during the amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the South Tianshan suture zone, Lithos. 2016, 246-247: 1-12.
HAN Y., Zhao G., Cawood P.E.T.E.R., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HOU W., ZHANG X. and LIU Q., Tarim and North China cratons linked to northern Gondwana through switching accretionary tectonics and collisional orogenesis, Geology. 2016, 44: 95-98.
Ji Z., Ge W., Wang Q., Yang H., Zhao G., Bi J. and Dong Y., Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks of the Manketouebo Formation in the Wuchagou region, central Great Xing’an Range, NE China, and tectonic implications: geochronological, geochemical, and Hf isotopic evidence, International Geology Review. 2015, 1-18.
Kong F., Liu Y., Liu X., Guo J. and Zhao G., Mineralogical and petrogeochemical characteristics of ultramafic rocks from the metamorphic basement of the Jiaobei terrane, Acta Patrologia Sinica. 2016, 31: 1549-1563.
LIU P., Zhou M.F., Y D.P., Zhao G., S S.G. and W X.L., The Shangzhuang Fe-Ti oxide-bearing layered mafic intrusion, northeast of Beijing (North China): Implications for the mantle source of the giant Late Mesozoic magmatic event in the North China Craton, Lithos. 2015, 231: 1-15.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., WANG B., LIU D. and XU B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, China, Precambrian Research. Elsevier B.V., 2015, 266: 551-578.
LIU Q., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., ZHANG X., Wang B., Liu D.X. and Xu B., Ages and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic ortho- and paragneisses in the Beishan Orogenic Belt, Precambrian Research, Volume 266, September 01, 2015, Pages 551-578. 2015.
Li J., Dong S., Zhang Y., Zhao G., Johnston S., Cui J. and Xin Y., New Insights Into Phanerozoic Tectonics Of South China: Part 1, Polyphase Deformation In The Jiuling And Lianyunshan Domains Of The Central Jiangnan Orogen, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2016, 121: 3048-3080.
Liu C., Zhao G., Liu F. and Shi J., Constraints of volcanic rocks of the Wutai Complex (Shanxi Province, Northern China) on a giant late Neoarchean intra-oceanic arc system in the Trans-North China Orogen, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2016, 123: 178-212.
Sun M., Zhao G. and Li S.Z., State Natural Science Award (2nd Class; First Awardee), State Council of P.R.China. 2015.
Xia Y., Xu X., Zhao G. and Liu L., Neoproterozoic active continental margin of the Cathaysia block: Evidence from geochronology, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes of igneous complexes, Precambrian Research. 2015, 269: 195-216.
Yang D., Xu W., Zhao G., Hou T., Shi J. and Yang H., Tectonic implications of Early Cretaceous low-Mg adakitic rocks generated by partial melting of thickened lower continental crust at the southern margin of the central North China Craton, Gondwana Research. 2016.
Yin C., Zhao G. and Sun M., High-pressure pelitic granulites from the Helanshan Complex in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton: Metamorphic P-t path and tectonic implications, American Journal of Science. 2015, 315: 846-879.
Yu Q., Ge W., Zhang J., Zhao G., Zhang Y. and Yang H., Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implication of Late Paleozoic volcanic rocks from the Dashizhai Formation in Inner Mongolia, NE China, Gondwana Research. 2016.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D.X., Wang B., LIU Q. and XU B., Latest Carboniferous closure of the Junggar Ocean constrained by geochemical and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic data of granitic gneisses from the Central Tianshan block, NW China, Lithos. Elsevier, 2015, 238: 26-36.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., EIZENHOEFER P.R., Sun M., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Paleozoic magmatism and metamorphism in the Central Tianshan block revealed by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope studies of detrital zircons from the South Tianshan belt, NW China, Lithos. 2015, 233: 193-208.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., HAN Y., HOU W., Liu D., Wang B., LIU Q. and Xu B., Tectonic evolution from subduction to arc-continent collision of the Junggar ocean: Constraints from U-Pb dating and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons from the North Tianshan belt, NW China, Geological Society of America Bulletin. 2015, 128: 644-660.
ZHU Y., Zhao G., Sun M., EIZENHOEFER P.R., LIU Q., ZHANG X., HAN Y. and HOU W., Geochronology and geochemistry of the Yilan greenschists and amphibolites in the Heilongjiang complex, northeastern China and tectonic implications, Gondwana Research. 2016.
Zhao G., 29th Khwarizmi International Award (First Class, Foreign Section), Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). 2016.
Zhao G., An Introduction to the Major NSFC Program “Reconstruction of East Asian Blocks in Pangea”, International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR) 2015 Convention & 12th International Conference on Gondwana to Asia. 2015.
Zhao G., Evolution of supercontinents and formation of East Asia, 超大陸演化與東亞大陸形成, 2015 Annual Conference of Chinese Geoscience Union. 中國地球科學聯合會 2015年年會, 2015.
Zhao G., Highly Cited Researcher Award (2015), Thomson Reuters. 2016.
Zhou J., Han J., Zhao G., Zhang X., Cao J., Wang B. and Pei S., The emplacement time of the Hegenshan ophiolite: Constraints from the unconformably overlying Paleozoic strata, Tectonophysics. 2015, 662: 398-415.


Researcher : Zhao X

Project Title:Dating the Dahongshan deposit, Yunnan Province, SW China
Investigator(s):Zhao X, Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:08/2010




Researcher : Zhou MF

Project Title:16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference Subduction-related Origin of the 750 Ma Xuelongbao Adakitic Complex (Sichuan Province, China): Implications for the Tectonic Setting of the Giant Neoproterozoic Magmatic Event in South China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2006


Project Title:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2007-2008
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:Sedimentology,geochronology and geochemistry of the Paleoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary sequences in the western
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Apatite melt inclusions and Fe-V isotopes of the oxide-bearing layered intrusions in the Panxi region, SW China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF, Zhao X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:PGE geochemistry of Cenozoic basalts in Eastern China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF, Su B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2013


Project Title:Origin of Fe-Cu deposits in southwestern China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:12/2015


Project Title:Provenance and depositional environment of late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sedimentary rocks of South China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2014


Project Title:Magnesium and Iron Isotopic Composition of Podiform Chromite Deposits and their Significance
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Rare earth element deposits in China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF, Chen W
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


Project Title:Goldschmidt2016; Mineralization and Mobilization of REEsin the Proterozoic Fe-Cu-(REE) Deposits in SW China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

LI X., Zhao X., Zhou M.F., CHEN W. and Chu Z., Fluid Inclusion and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe-Cu-(REE) Deposit, Southwest China, Economic Geology. 2015, 110: 1339-1369.
LI X. and Zhou M.F., Multiple stages of hydrothermal REE remobilization recorded in fluorapatite in the Paleoproterozoic Yinachang Fe–Cu–(REE) deposit, Southwest China, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2015, 166: 53-73.
LIU P., Zhou M.F., Y D.P., Zhao G., S S.G. and W X.L., The Shangzhuang Fe-Ti oxide-bearing layered mafic intrusion, northeast of Beijing (North China): Implications for the mantle source of the giant Late Mesozoic magmatic event in the North China Craton, Lithos. 2015, 231: 1-15.


Researcher : Zong Y

Project Title:Recording sea-level change of the past 2000 year
Investigator(s):Zong Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:09/2014


Project Title:XIX International Conference of the International Union for Quaternary Research; Marine transgression and sea surface temperature changes in the last interglcial: a record from the southeast coast of China/Co-convenor for Session C05 Asian Monsoon and Coastal Evolution/Co-convenor for Session C01 Sea-level and Cryospheric changes in the last 2000 years
Investigator(s):Zong Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


List of Research Outputs

Bradley S.L., Milne G.A., Horton B.P. and Zong Y., Modelling sea level data from China and Malay-Thailand to estimate Holocene ice-volume equivalent sea level change, Quaternary Science Reviews. 2016, 137: 54-68.
CHEUNG M.C., Zong Y., WANG N., Aitchison J.C. and Zheng Z., δ13Corg and n-alkane evidence for changing wetland conditions during a stable mid-late Holocene climate in the central Tibetan Plateau, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2015, 438: 203-212.
KONG D., TSE Y.Y., Jia G., Wei G., Chen M., Zong Y. and Liu Z., Cooling trend over the past 4 centuries in northeastern Hong Kong waters as revealed by alkenone-derived SST records, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2015, 114: 497-503.
NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A Re-examination of the Relationship between Empirical Maximum Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclone and Sea Surface Temperature, 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, PR, USA. 2016.
Wang F., Zong Y., Li J.F., Tian L.Z., Shang Z.W., Chen Y.S., Jiang X.Y., Yang J.L., Yang B. and Wang H., Recent Sedimentation Dynamics Indicated by 210 Pb exc and 137 Cs Records from the Subtidal Area of Bohai Bay, China , Journal of Coastal Research. 2016, 318: 416-423.
Zong Y., Huang G., LI X. and SUN Y., Late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level change and lithostratigraphy along the northern coast of the South China Sea, Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 2016, 429: 123-136.


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