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., 2025, An asymmetric late Cretaceous back-arc basin south of Tibet?, Geology 53, 392-397
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 late Permian Qaidam-North China connection, and the cryptic final Mesozoic intra-Asian suture, Journal of Geophysical Research

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