2017-2018

Visiting PhD student: “Late Mesozoic-Early Cenozoic Sedimentary Provenance and Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the Eastern South China Sea”

Funding: China Scholarship Council grant

Collaborators: Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen, Dr. Eldert Advokaat

Licheng vistited us when he was a PhD student at the School of Marine Geology and Geosciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (PhD, 2019), and was with us in Utrecht for one year in 2017-18

Publications

1. van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, Cao, L., Asisi, J., Advokaat, E.L., Mason, P.R.D., Xu, D., Dekkers, M.J., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2024, Causes of Late Cretaceous subduction termination below South China and Borneo: Was the Proto-South China Sea underlain by an oceanic plateau?, Geoscience Frontiers 15, 101752
2. Cao, L., Shao, L., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Jiang., T. Xu, D., and Cui, Y., 2023, Evolution of Asian large rivers recorded in the East and South China Seas, Geological Society of America Bulletin 135, 2723–2752
3. Cao, L.**, Shao, L., Qiao, P., Pang, X., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2018, Early Miocene birth of modern Pearl River recorded low-relief, high-elevation surface formation of SE Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 496, p. 120-131
4. Shao, L., Cao, L.**, Qiao, P., Zhang, X., Li, Q., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2017, Cretaceous–Eocene provenance connections between the Palawan Continental Terrane and the northern South China Sea margin, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 477, p. 97-107

1. Traveling Geologist (Canada) – Searching for lost plates of the paleo-Pacific in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo with Suzanna van de Lagemaat