2023-Present

Visiting PhD student: “Geological and tectonic history of the Xigaze forearc, southern Tibet”

Teng is a PhD student at Institute of Continental Geodynamics of Nanjing University, China, who visited us as a CSC exchange student in 2023 and 2024. His work focuses on the Mesozoic  paleogeographic evolution of the Xigaze forearc basin in southern Tibet.

Funding: China Scholarship Council grant

Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen

Publications

1. Xu, S., Li, Y.-X., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Liu, X., Li, B., Li, X., Wang, T., submitted, An asymmetric late Cretaceous back-arc basin south of Tibet?, Geology
2. Wang, T., Zhou, Y., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Sun, J., Cheng, X., Chai, R., Xu, S., Wang, P., and Wu, H., submitted, Paleomagnetic evidence for a Permian Qaidam-North China connection, and the paradox of the last major intra-Asian plate boundary, Geology

Outreach

Fieldwork