Prof Li Sanzhong

Overseas Collaborator

Professor Li Sanzhong is based at the Ocean University of China, Qingdao and was a visiting scholar at EarthByte from October-November 2013.

sanzhong@ouc.edu.cn

Research Interests
Structural Geology and Tectonics, Plate Reconstruction, Continental Dynamics and Marine Geodynamics.

Methods
Application of methods and techniques of structural analysis to various deformation and tectonics of orogens and basins in East China and its adjacent seas in the Earth history, especially at three key transition stages of Paleoproterozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic; study of intercontinental tectonics and continental marginal tectonics, and comparison of different structural levels of continental crusts, various deformation and tectonic setting and tectonic regimes to discuss complex evolution of contiental lithosphere; plate reconstruction of typical geological times of Early Paleozoic and 55Ma, 45Ma, 30Ma, 25Ma, 16Ma, 5Ma in Cenozoic.

Recent Work

1. Paleoproterozoic tectonic assembly processes of multiple blocks of the North China Craton along the Trans-North China Orogen and the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt.
2. Caledonian and Indosianian subduction, collision tectonics and plate reconstruction of the Central China Orogen (the Qilian-Qinling-Dabie-Sulu Orogen) and exhumation of the HP-UHP rock.
3. Meso-Cenzoic intracontinental deformation of East China and its related subduction of the (Paleo-) Pacific Plate, especially intraplate rifting of the Bohai Bay Basin in the North China and thrusting and folding in the South China Sea.
4. Mesozoic evolution of NW Pacific and Cenozoic evolution of SW Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
5. Plate reconstruction of Early Paleozoic and Cenozoic.

Academic Roles

• Vice Director, Institute of Marine Geodynamics, OUC (From Dec. 2012).
• Ph. D. Supervisor, Ocean University of China (Jan. 2002 – present).
• Professor, Ocean University of China (Dec. 2001 – present).
• Assistant Dean, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, (Sept. 2011 – present).
• Visiting scholar, National Taiwan University, China (Sept. 2012).
• Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanological Insitute and MIT, U.S. (Apr. 2010 – May, 2010).
• Structural Geologist, Exp. 324 Cruise for NW Pacific, IODP, TAMU, U.S. (Sep. 2009 – Nov. 2009).
• Vice Director, Key Lab of Submarine Science and Exploration Techinques, MOE, China (Sep. 2007 – present).
• Visiting scholar, Kiel University and IFM-GEOMAR, Germany (Apr. 2006 – Apr. 2007).
• Research assistant, the University of Hong Kong (Mar. 2003 – Jun. 2004).
• Research assistant, the University of Hong Kong (Nov. 2002 – Jan. 2003).
• Associate Professor, Ocean University of China (Nov. 1998 – Nov. 2001).

Education

• Post-doc and Lecturer, Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, October, 1998.
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Geology, Jilin University, Changchun, China, July, 1996.
• Master Science, Structural Geology, Jilin University, Changchun, China, July, 1993.
• B.Sc., Geology, Jilin University, Changchun, China, July, 1990.

Selected Publications

1. Xin Liu, Dapeng Zhao, Sanzhong Li. 2013, Seismic imaging of the Southwest Japan arc from the Nankai trough to the Japan Sea. Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, 216:59-73.
2. Xin Liu, Dapeng Zhao, Sanzhong Li, Zhouchuan Huang, Yukihisa Nishizono, Hirohito Inakur. 2013, Seismic imaging of the entire Kyushu subduction zone: Insight into forearc interplate coupling and back-arc magmatism and dynamics. Tectonophysics, in review.
3. Xin Liu, Dapeng Zhao, Sanzhong Li. 2013, Seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity of the southern Kuril arc. Geophysical Journal International, in review.
4. Zhang Guowei, Guo Anlin, Wang Yuejun, Li Sanzhong, Dong Yunpeng, Liu Shaofeng, He Dengfa, Yao Anping, Lu Rukui. 2013, On the tectonics of South China Continent and problems. Science in China-Earth Science, in press.
5. Jinduo Wang, Sanzhong Li, Liming Dai, Santosh, M., Shumei Xu, Yanhui Suo, Qianjing Wang. 2013, Turbidity system in the third member of Tertiary Shahejie Formation of Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin and its implications on petroleum prospecting. Geological Journal, under review(SCI)(corresponding author).
6. Sanzhong Li, Yanhui Suo, M. Santosh, Liming Da, Shan Yu, Shujuan Zhao, Chong Jin. 2013, Mesozoic to Cenozoic intracontinental dynamics of the North China Block. Geological Journal, in press.
7. Ma Yun, Li Sanzhong,Liu Xin, Yu Shan, Wang Xiaofei, Zhao Shujuan, Zhang Bingkun. 2013, Formation mechanism of the Beibuwan Basin, South China. Journal of Jilin University(Earth Science Edition), in review.
8. Ma Yun, Li Sanzhong, Suo Yanhui, Dai Liming, Wang Xiaofei, Zhang Bingkun. 2013, Characteristics and mechanism of submarine landslides in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea. Journal of Jilin University(Earth Science Edition), in review(EI)(corresponding author).
9. Dai Liming, Li Sanzhong, Suo Yanhui, Liu Xin, Yu Shan, Lou Da, Zhou Shuhui. 2013, Numerical Modelling of Present-day Structural Stress Analysis of Major Active Blocks in the Asian Continent. Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition), in review.
10. Cao Xianzhi, Li Sanzhong, Liu Xin, Suo Yanhui, Dai Liming, Wu Qi, Wang Pengcheng, Yu Shan, Zhao Shujuan. 2013, Mechanism and Intraplate Morphotectonic Inversion along the Eastern Taihangshan Fault Zone, North China. Earth Science Frontiers, in review.
11. Wang Hongcai, Li Sanzhong, Liu Xin, Suo Yanhui, Dai Liming, Cheng Shixiu, Xu Liqing. 2013, Cenozoic Geological Processes and Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation in the Continental Marginal Basin Group of the Northern South China Sea. Marine and Quarternary Geology, in review.
12. Yu Shan, Li Sanzhong, Suo Yanhui, An Huiting, Xiong Lijuan, Xue Youchen, Cheng Shixiu. 2013, Review of Global 3D Paleogeographic Reconstruction. Advances in Earth Science, in review.
13. Xu Liqing, Li Sanzhong, Liu Xin, Dai Liming, Wu Qi, Wang Pengcheng, Zhang Bingkun. 2013, Neotectonic Activity and its Kinematics of Fault System in Southern North China Block. Earth Science Frontiers, in review.
14. Li Sanzhong, Suo Yanhui, Liu Xin, Dai Liming, Yu Shan, Zhao Shujuan, Ma Yun, Wang Xiaofei, Cheng Shixiu, Xue Youcheng, Xiong Lijuan, An Huiting. 2012, Basic Structures and Tectonic Models of the South China Sea: Problems, Advances and Debates. Marine and Quarternary Geology, 32(6):35-53.
15. Yuejun Wang, Aimei Zhang, Weiming Fan, Guochun Zhao, Guowei Zhang, Yuzhi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Sanzhong Li. 2011, Kwangsian crustal anatexis within the eastern South China Block: Geochemical, zircon U-Pb geochronological and Hf isotopic fingerprints from the gneissoid granites of Wugong and Wuyi-Yunkai Domains. Lithos, 127, 239-260.
16. Zhao, G.C., Li, S.Z., Sun, M., Wilde, S.A., 2011. Assembly, accretion, and break-up of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent: records in the North China Craton revisited. International Geology Review,53:1331-1356.
17. Pang Jiehong, Li Sanzhong, Dai Liming, Wu Tingting, Wang Jian, IODP Expedition 324 Scientific Party. 2011, Genesis of Oceanic Plateaus and Seamounts in the Pacific Ocean – A Case Study of Shatsky Rise. Marine and Quarternary Geology, 31(2): 1-10.(Corresponding Author).
18. Sanzhong Li, Guochun Zhao, Santosh M., Xiu Liu, Liming Dai. 2011, Palaeoproterozoic Tectono-thermal Evolution and Deep Crustal Processes in the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, North China craton: A Review. Geological Journal, 46: 525-543.
19. Li Sanzhong, Zhang Guowei, Zhou Lihong, Zhao Guochun, Liu Xin, Suo Yanhui, Liu Bo, Jin Chong, Dai Liming. 2011, The opposite Meso-Cenozoic intracontinental deformations under the super-convergence: Rifting and extension in the North China Craton and shortening and thrusting in the South China Craton. Earth Science Frontiers, 18(3): 79-107.
20. Li SZ, Kusky TM, Zhao GC, Liu XC, Zhang GW, Kopp H, Wang L. 2010, Two-stage Triassic exhumation of HP-UHP terranes in the western Dabie orogen of China: constraints from structural geology. Tectonophysics, 490:267-293.
21. Li Sanzhong, Zhang Guowei, Liu Baohua, Hao Tianyao, Dai Liming, Liu Xin, Liu Liping. 2010, The future of structural geology in the new century:Advances in fields of deep-sea,deep-interior and deep-time and related key techniques. Earth Science Frontiers, 17(3):27-43.
22. Li Sanzhong, Jin Chong, Dai Liming, Zhang Guowei. 2009. Marine Geodynamics-Advances and Perspectives of International Ocean-floor-related Observatory Network and Exploration Technique System. Marine Geology and Quartanery, 29(5): 131-142.
23. Sanzhong Li, Timothy M. Kusky, Xiaochun Liu, Guowei Zhang, Guochun Zhao, Lu Wang, Yuejun Wang. 2009. Two-stage late-collisional extrusion of the western Dabie HP-UHP metamorphic terranes, central China: evidence from quartz c-axis fabrics and microstructures. Gondwana Research, 16: 294-309.
24. Zhao, G., Sun, M., Wilde, S. A., Sanzhong, L., Liu, S. 2006, Composite nature of the North China Granulite-Facies Belt: tectonothermal and geochronological constraints. Gondwana Research.
25. Zhao, G., Sun, M., Wilde, S. A., Sanzhong, L. 2005, Late Archaean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton: key issues revisited. Precambrian Research.

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