2010-2015

Position after leaving my group: Rubicon Post-doc at University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Current Position: Professor at the Institute for Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

PhD project: “Paleomagnetic constraints on the India-Asia collision”

Supervisors: Dr. Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Dr. Pete Lippert, Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen, Prof. Cor Langereis

Funding: VIDI Grant to Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

Publications

1. Huang, W., Niu, S., Dekkers, M.J., Lippert, P.C., Billardello, D., Solheid, P., Zhang, B., Dupont-Nivet, G., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Ding, L., 2023, Remagnetization under hydrothermal alteration of Paleocene south Tibetan lavas: maghematization, hematization, and grain size reduction of titanomagnetite, Journal of Geophysical Research 128, e2023JB026418
2. Huang, W., Lippert, P.C., Reiners, P.W., Quade, J., Kapp, P., Ganerød, M., Guo., Z., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2023, Reply to comment by Zhao et al. on “Hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group: Implications for Paleogene exhumation and paleoaltimetry of the southern Tibetan Plateau”, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 603, 117973
3. Huang, W., Lippert, P.C., Reiners, P.W., Quade, J., Kapp, P., Ganerød, M., Guo, Z., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2022, Hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group: Implications for Paleogene exhumation and paleoaltimetry of the southern Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 583, 117390
4. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Lippert, P.C., Li., S.*, Huang, W., Advokaat, E.L.*, and Spakman, W., 2019, Reconstructing Greater India: paleogeographic, kinematic, and geodynamic perspectives, Tectonophysics, 760, p. 69-94
5. Zhang, Y., Huang, W., Huang, B., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Tao, Y., Dupont-Nivet, G., Guo, Z., 2018, 53-43 Ma deformation of Eastern Tibet revealed by three stages of tectonic rotation in the Gongjue basin, Journal of Geophysical Research 123, p. 3320–3338
6. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Lippert, P.C., and Huang, W., 2017, Unfeasible subduction?, Nature Geoscience 10, p. 878-880
7. Huang, W., Lippert, P.C., Jackson, M., Dekkers, M.J., Zhang, Y., Li, J., Hu, X., Guo, Z., Kapp, P., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2017, Reply to comment by Yi et al. on “Remagnetization of the Paleogene Tibetan Himalayan carbonates in the Gamba area: implications for reconstructing the lower plate in the India-Asia collision”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, p. 4859–4863
8. Huang, W., Lippert, P.C., Zhang, Y., Jackson, M.J., Dekkers, M.J., Li, J., Hu, X., Zhang, B., Guo, Z., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2017, Remagnetization of carbonate rocks in southern Tibet: Perspectives from rock magnetic and petrographic investigations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, p. 2434–2456
9. Huang, W., Lippert, P.C., Jackson, M., Dekkers, M.J., Zhang, Y., Li, J., Hu, X., Guo, Z., Kapp, P., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2017, Remagnetization of the Paleogene Tibetan Himalayan carbonates in the Gamba area: implications for reconstructing the lower plate in the India-Asia collision, Journal of Geophysical Research 122, p. 808-825
10. Huang, W.**, Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dekkers, M.J., Waldrip, R., Ganerød, M., Li, X., Guo, Z., and Kapp, P., 2015, What was the Paleogene latitude of the Lhasa terrane? A reassessment of the geochronology and paleomagnetism of the Linzizong volcanic rocks (Linzhou Basin, Tibet), Tectonics 34, p. 594-622
11. Huang, W.**, Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dekkers, M.J., Guo, Z., Waldrip, R., Li, X., Zhang, X., Liu, D., and Kapp, P., 2015, Can a primary paleolatitude be retrieved from partially remagnetized Eocence volcanics in the Nanmulin Basin (Southern Tibet) to date the India-Asia collision?, Journal of Geophysical Research 120, p. 42-66
12. Huang, W.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Dekkers, M.J., Garzanti, E., Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., Li, X., Maffione, M.*, Langereis, C.G., Hu, X., Guo, Z., and Kapp, P., 2015, Paleolatitudes of the Tibetan Himalaya from primary and secondary magnetizations of Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16, p. 77-100
13. Huang, W.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Lippert, P.C., Guo, Z., and Dupont-Nivet, G., 2015, Paleomagnetic tests of tectonic reconstructions of the India-Asia collision zone, Geophysical Research Letters 42, p. 2642-2649
14. Huang, W.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Maffione, M.*, Orme, D., Dupont-Nivet, G., Guilmette, C., Ding, L., Guo, Z., and Kapp, P., 2015, Lower Cretaceous Xigaze ophiolites formed in the Gangdese forearc: evidence from paleomagnetism, sediment provenance, and stratigraphy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 415, p. 142-153
15. Maffione, M.*, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Koornneef, L.****, Guilmette, C., Hodges, K.V., Borneman, N., Huang, W.**, Ding, L., and Kapp, P., 2015, Forearc hyperextension dismembered the South Tibetan ophiolites, Geology 43, p. 475-478
16. Huang, W**., Dupont-Nivet, G., Lippert, P.C., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Hallot, E., 2013, Inclination shallowing in the Eocene Linzizong sediments from Tibet: correction, possible causes and implications for reconstructing the India-Asia collision, Geophysical Journal International 194, p. 1390-1411

Outreach

1. Eos – Diagnosing Cryptic Remagnetization in Sedimentary Rocks

Fieldwork

1. Tibet 2013