2023-Present

Visiting PhD student: “Paleomagnetism of the Permo-Triassic of the Qaidam Basin, China”

Teng is a PhD student at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, who visited us as a CSC exchange student in 2024. His work focuses on the Paleozoic  paleogeographic evolution of the Qaidam Basin in northeastern Tibet.

Funding: China Scholarship Council grant

Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen

Publications

1. Wang, T., Zhou, Y., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Sun, J., Cheng, X., Chai, R., Xu, S., Wang, P., and Wu, H., 2025, Paleomagnetic evidence for a late Permian Qaidam-North China connection, and the cryptic final Mesozoic intra-Asian suture, Journal of Geophysical Research 130, e2025JB031123
2. Xu, S., Li, Y.-X., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Liu, X., Li, B., Li, X., Wang, T., 2025, An asymmetric late Cretaceous back-arc basin south of Tibet?, Geology 53, 392-397

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Fieldwork