Using paleomagnetism to study plate tectonics and evolution of tectonic belts

1. Paleogeography of the Tarim Craton during assemblage and break-up of the Rodiania Supercontinent.
2. Tectonic evolution of the eastern segment of the Central Asia Orogenic Belt.
3. Tectonic evolution of the Mongol-Okhotsk orogenic belt.
4. Tectonic evolution of the Neo-Tethys Ocean.

2016.12-2019.01: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

2022

1. Zhu, R., Zhao, P., Zhao, L., 2022. Tectonic evolution and geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 65(1), 1-24. doi: 10.1007/s11430-021-9845-7

2021

1. Zhao, P., He, J., Deng, C., Chen, Y., Mitchell, R.N., 2021. Early Neoproterozoic (870–820 Ma) amalgamation of the Tarim craton (northwestern China) and the final assembly of Rodinia. Geology, 49, 1277–1282, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48837.1

2020

1. Zhao, P., Appel, E., Xu, B., 2020. An Inclination Shallowing‐Corrected Early Triassic Paleomagnetic Pole for the North China Craton: Implication for the Mesozoic Geography of Proto‐Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019489. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019489
2. Zhao, P., Appel, E., Xu, B., Sukhbaatar, T., 2020. First Paleomagnetic Result From the Early Permian Volcanic Rocks in Northeastern Mongolia: Evolutional Implication for the Paleo‐Asian Ocean and the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125, e2019JB017338, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017338 .

2019

1. Zhao, P., Alexandov, I., Jahn, B., Liao, J.P., Ivin, V., 2019. Late Eocene granites in the Central Sakhalin Island (Russian Far East) andits implication for evolution of the Sakhalin-Hokkaido orogenic belt. Lithos 324-325, 684-698.

2018

1. Zhao, P., Alexandov, I., Jahn, B., Ivin, V., 2018. Timing of Okhotsk Sea Plate Collision with Eurasia Plate: Zircon U-Pb age constraints from the Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123, 8279-8293.
2. Liao, J-P., Jahn, B-M., Alexandrov, I., Chung, S-L., Zhao, P., Ivin, V., Usuki, T., 2018. Petrogenesis of Mid-Eocene granites in South Sakhalin, Russian Far East: Juvenile crustal growth and comparison with granitic magmatism in Hokkaido and Sikhote-Alin, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences167, 103-129.

2017

1. Zhao, P., Xu, B., Jahn, B.M., 2017. The Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean subduction-related Permian peraluminous granites in northeastern Mongolia: constraints from zircon U-Pb ages, whole-rock elemental and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic compositions. Journal of Asian Earth Science 144, 225-242.
2. Zhao, P., Xu, B., Zhang, C., 2017. A rift system in southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: constraint from sedimentological, geochronological and geochemical investigations of the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian strata in northern Inner Mongolia (China), Gondwana Research 47, 342-357.
3. Zhao, P., Jahn, B.M., Xu, B., 2017. Elemental and Sr-Nd isotopic geochemistry of Cretaceous to Early Paleogene granites and volcanic rocks in the Sikhote-Alin Orogenic Belt (Russian Far East): implications for the regional tectonic evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Science 146, 383-401.
4. Zhao, P., Li, J.J., Alexandov, I., Ivin, V., Jahn, B.M., 2017. Involvement of old crustal materials during formation of the Sakhalin Island (Russian Far East) and its paleogeographic implication: Constraints from detrital zircon ages of modern river sand and Miocene sandstone. Journal of Asian Earth Science 146, 412-430.
5. Liao, W., Xu, B., Wang, Y., Zhao, P., Li, Q., 2017. Early Devonian back-arc extension in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: evidence from a bimodal volcanic sequence from Xilinhot, central Inner Mongolia (North China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 144, 40-53.

2016

1. Zhao, P., Xu, B., Tong, Q., Chen, Y., Faure, M., 2016. Sedimentological and geochronological constrainst on the Carboniferous evolution of central Inner Mogolia, southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: intra-continental deposition in a post-orogenic setting. Gondwana Research 31, 253-270.
2. Zhao, P., Jahn, B.M., Xu, B., Liao, W., Wang, Y., 2016. Geochemistry, geochronology and zircon Hf isotopic study of peralkaline-alkaline intrusions along the northern margin of the North China Craton and its tectonic implication for the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Lithos 261, 92-108.
3. Luo, Z., Xu, B., Shi, G., Zhao, P., Faure, M., Chen, Y., 2016. Solonker ophiolite in Inner Mongolia, China: A late Permian continental margin-type ophiolite. Lithos 261, 72-91.

2015

1. Zhao, P., Faure, M., Chen, Y., Shi, G., Xu, B., 2015. A new Triassic shortening-extrusion tectonic model for Central-Eastern Asia: structural, geochronological and paleomagnetic investigations in the Xilamulun Fault (North China). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426, 46-57.
2. Xu, B., Zhao, P., Wang, Y., Liao, W., Luo, Z., Bao, Q., Zhou, Y., 2015. The pre-Devonian tectonic framework of Xing’an–Mongolia orogenic belt (XMOB) in north China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 97, 183-196.

2014

1. Zhao, P., Y. Chen, Zhan, S., Xu, B., Faure, M., 2014. The Apparent Polar Wander Path of the Tarim block (NW China) since the Neoproterozoic and its implications for a long-term Tarim–Australia connection. Precambrian Research 242, 39-57.
2. Zhao, P., Fang, J., Xu, B., Chen, Y., Faure, M., 2014. Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Xing-Meng Orogenic Belt: constraints from detrital zircon geochronology of western Erguna-Xing'an Block, North China. Journal of Asian Earth Science 95, 136-146.
3. 徐备, 赵盼, 鲍庆中, 周宜恆, 王炎阳, 罗志文, 2014. 兴蒙造山带前中生代构造单元划分初探. 岩石学报 30(7), 1841-1857.
4. 方俊钦, 赵盼, 徐备, 邵济安, 王炎阳, 2014. 内蒙古西乌珠穆沁旗哲斯组宏体化石新发现和沉积相分析. 岩石学报 30(7), 1889-1898.
5. 李瑞彪, 徐备, 赵盼, 童勤龙, 张晋瑞, 2014. 二连浩特艾力格庙地区蓝片岩相岩石的发现及其构造意义.科学通报 59, 66–71, doi: 10.1360/972012-1670.
6. 程胜东, 方俊钦, 赵盼, 徐备, 鲍庆中, 周永恆, 邓荣敬, 2014. 内蒙古西拉木伦河两岸志留-泥盆系碎屑锆石年龄及其构造意义. 岩石学报 30(7), 1909-1921.

2013

1. Zhao, P., Chen, Y., Xu, B., Faure, M., Shi, G., Choulet, F., 2013. Did the Paleo-Asian Ocean between North China Block and Mongolia Block exist during the late Paleozoic? First paleomagnetic evidence from central-eastern Inner Mongolia, China, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118, 1873–1894, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50198.
2. Xu, B., Charvet, J., Chen, Y., Zhao, P., Shi, G.Z., 2013. Middle Paleozoic convergent orogenic belts in western Inner Mongolia (China): framework, kinematics, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research 23, 1324-1364.
3. Shi, G., Faure, M., Xu, B., Zhao, P., Chen, Y., 2013. Structural and kinematic analysis of the Early Paleozoic Ondor Sum-Hongqi mélange belt, eastern part of the Altaids (CAOB) in Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 66, 123-139.