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Name: Dewen Zheng(郑德文)

Title:  Professor

Phone: 020-020-85291790

Email: zhengdewen@gig.ac.cn

 

Educational Background

1998-2001, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake AdministrationPh. D. in 2001.

1995-1998, China University of Geology (Beijing)Master Degree in 1998.

1989-1992, Shenyang Gold College.

Work and Research Experience

2018-present, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou

2009-2018, Professor, Neotectonic Chronology lab, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration

2004-2008, Associate Professor, Neotectonic Chronology lab, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration

2001-2003, Assistant Professor, Neotectonic Chronology lab, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration

1992-1995, Yixingzhai Gold Mine, Shanxi Province


Research Interests:

1. Low Closure Temperature Thermochronology Ar/ArFTU-Th/He

2. Noble Gass Cosmogenic Nuclide  (3He21Ne) Dating

3. Thermochronology Study on the Northeastern Margin of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

4. How Climate and Tectonic Control (Impact) on Landscape


Recent Publications:

Yizhou Wang, Dewen Zheng, Huiping Zhang, Jianzhang Pang, Jingxing Yu, Chaopeng Li, and Yuqi Hao. The model of knickpoint retreat along river longitudinal profiles. JGR (Earth surface), Review

Jingxing Yu, Dewen Zheng, Jianzhang Pang, Yizhou Wang, Matthew Fox, Pieter Vermeesch, Chaopeng Li, Lin Xiao, Yuqi Hao, and Ying Wang. Miocene range growth along the Altyn Tagh fault: Insights from apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in the western Danghenan Shan, China. JGR (In press)

Jianzhang Pang , Jingxing Yu , Dewen Zheng, Weitao Wang , Yan Ma,Yizhou Wang, Chaopeng Li, Youjuan Li, and Ying Wang. Neogene Expansion of the Qilian Shan, North Tibet: Implications for the Dynamic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 2019, doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005258

Jianzhang Pang, Jingxing Yu, Dewen Zheng, Yizhou Wang, Huiping Zhang, Chaopeng Li, Weitao Wang, Yuqi Hao. Constraints of new apatite fission-track ages on the tectonic pattern and geomorphic development of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. 2019 (181), doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.103909

Yizhou Wang, Dewen Zheng, Huiping Zhang, Chaopeng Li, Lin Xiao, Youjuan Li, Yuqi Hao. The distribution of active rock uplift in the interior of the western Qilian Shan, NE Tibetan Plateau: Inference from bedrock channel proles. Tectonophysics, 2019, 759: 15-29

Jingxing Yu, Jianzhang Pang, Yizhou Wang, Dewen Zheng, Caicai Liu, Weitao Wang.  Mid-Miocene uplift of the northern Qilian Shan as a result of the northward growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau. Geosphere, 2019, 15(2): 1–10, doi .org /10 .1130 /GES01520.1.

Youjuan Li, Huaiyu He, Chenglong Deng, Yongxin Pan, Qiang Ji, Chengshan Wang, Dewen Zheng, Rixiang Zhu. 40Ar/39Ar dating results from the Shijiatun Formation, Jiaolai Basin: New age constraints on the Cretaceous terrestrial volcanicsedimentary sequence of China. Cretaceous Research,2018 (86) :251-260

Yan Ma, Weitao Wang, Dewen Zheng, Huiping Zhang, Jianzhang Pang, Ying Wu, Finlay M. Stuart, Sheng Xu. Mid-Miocene cosmogenic upper limit for 10Be/21Ne burial age. Quaternary Geochronology, 48 (2018): 72–79

Wang Y, Zheng D, Pang J, et al. Using slope-area and apatite fission track analysis to decipher the rock uplift pattern of the Yumu Shan: New insights into the growth of the NE Tibetan Plateau[J]. Geomorphology, 2018, 308:118-128.

Pang Jianzhang, Dewen Zheng, Yan Ma, Ying Wang, Ying Wu, Jinglin Wan, Jingxing Yu, Youjuan Li a, Yizhou Wang2017. Combined apatite fission-track dating, chlorine and REE content analysis by LA-ICPMS. Science Bulletin,doi.org/10.1016/ j.scib.2017.10.009

Li, Y., Zheng, D., Wu, Y., Wang, Y., He, H., & Pang, J., et al. (2017). A potential (uth)/he zircon reference material from penglai zircon megacrysts. Geostandards & Geoanalytical Research413):359-365

Youjuan LiHuaiyu He, Alexei V. Ivanov, Elena I. Demonterova, Yongxin Pan, Chenglong DengDewen Zhengand Rixia ng Zhu. 40Ar/39Ar age of the onset of high-Ti phase of the Emeishan volcanismstrengthens the link with the end-Guadalupian mass extinction. INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW, 2017.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1405748

Wang YizhouZhang HuipingZheng Dewen et al.2017. How a stationary knickpoint is sustained: New insights into the formation of the deep Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. Geomorphology28528~43

Wang YizhouZhang HuipingZheng Dewenet al., 2017. Coupling slope–area analysis, integral approach andstatistic tests to steady-state bedrock river profile analysisEarth Surface Dynamics5145~160

Zheng D, Wang W, Wan J, et al. Progressive northward growth of the northern Qilian Shan-Hexi Corridor (northeastern Tibet) during the Cenozoic[J]. Lithoshere, 2017, 9(3):L587.1.

Wang Weitao, Zheng Wenjun, Zhang Peizhen, Li Qiang, Kirby Eric, Yuan Daoyang, Zheng Dewen, LiuCaicai, Wang Zhicai, Zhang Huiping, Pang Jianzhang. Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene. Nature Communications, 2017.6.21, 8: 1-12. 2.

Zhang, H., Zhang, P., Prush, V., Zheng, D., Zheng, W., Wang, W., Liu, C., Ren, Z., 2017. Tectonic geomorphology of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights into the plateau formation processes. Tectonophysics 706-707, 103-115.

Weitao Wang, Peizhen Zhang, Caicai Liu, Dewen Zheng, Jingxing Yu, Wenjun Zheng, Yizhou Wang, Huiping Zhang, Xiuyan Chen. Pulsed growth of the west Qinling at ~30 Ma in the northeastern Tibet:Evidence from Lanzhou Basin magnetostratigraphy and provenance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2016.11.18, 121(11): 7754-7774.

Wang Weitao, Zhang Peizhen, Pang Jianzhang, Garzione Carmala, Zhang Huiping, Liu Caicai, Zheng Dewen, Zheng Wenjun, Yu Jingxing. The Cenozoic growth of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: A sedimentary archive from the Jiuxi Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2016.4, 121(4): 2235-2257.

Wang Weitao, Zhang Peizhen, Yu Jingxing, Wang Yizhou, Zheng Dewen, Zheng, Wenjun, Zhang Huiping, Pang Jianzhang. Constraints on mountain building in the northeastern Tibet: Detrital zircon records from synorogenic deposits in the Yumen Basin. , Scientific Reports, 2016.6.9, 6: 1~8.

Wang Weitao, Zhang Peizhen, Zheng Wenjun, Zheng Dewen, Liu Caicai, Xu Hongyan, Zhang Huiping, Yu Jingxing, Pang Jianzhang. Uplift-driven sediment redness decrease at similar to 16.5 Ma in the Yumen Basin along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports, 2016.7.14, 6: 1-7.

Yan MaYing WuDaming LiDewen Zhenget al., 2016. Erosion rate in the Shapotou area, northwestern China, constrained by in situ-produced cosmogenic 21Ne in long-exposed erosional surfaces. Quaternary Geochronology2016.2.01313-11

Jing YangDe-Wen ZhengWen Chen et al.2016. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of supergene K-bearing sulfate minerals: Cenozoic continental weathering and its paleoclimatic significance in the Tu–Ha Basin, northwestern ChinaPalaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology44583~96

Zheng Dewen, Wu Ying, Pang Jianzhang, Li Youjuan, Wang Yizhou, Ma Yan, Yu Jingxing. Fundamentals, dating and application of U-Th/He thermochronology. Quaternary Sciences, 2016,  36 (5): 1027-1036, DOI:10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2016.05.02 ( in Chinese with English Abstract )

Lin Xu, Zheng DewenSun Jiminet al., 2015. Detrital apatite fission track evidence for provenance change in the Subei Basin and implications for the tectonic uplift of the Danghe Nan Shan (NW China) since the mid-Miocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences111302~311

Yan MaYing WuDaming LiDewen Zheng2015. Analytical procedure of neon measurements on GV 5400 noble gas mass spectrometer and its evaluation by quartz standard CREU-1. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry38026-33

Wang YizhouZhang HuipingZheng Dewenet al.,2014. Controls on decadal erosion rates in Qilian Shan: Re-evaluation and new insights into landscape evolution in north-east Tibet. Geomorphology223117~128

Zhang, H., Zhang P-z, Zheng D-W, et al. 2014. Transforming the Miocene Altyn Tagh fault slip into shortening of the northwestern Qilian Shan: insights from the drainage basin geometry. Terra Nova, 26(3), 216-221.

Ma Y, Wu Y, Pang J Z, Zhang H P, Yu J X, Zheng D W. Establishment of a measurement procedure for the cosmogenic nuclide 21Ne exposure dating method (in Chinese). Chin Sci Bull (Chin Ver), 2014, 59: 2707–2713, doi: 10.1360/N972014-00353.

Jing YANG, DeWen ZHENG, HuaNing QIU, Ying WU, WeiTao WANG, YingXia XU. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of supergene jarosite constraints on weathering front propagation rate in the TuHa basin. Chinese Science Bulletin. 2014, 59 (30): 2956-2963

Wang Weitao, Zhang Peizhen, Zheng Dewen and Pang Jianzhang. Late Cenozoic deformation of the Haiyuan fault zone in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Earth Science Frontiers, 2014, 21 (4): 266-274 ( in Chinese with English Abstract )

Wang Weitao, Zheng Dewen, Pang Jianzhang. Provenancial Tracing for the Cenozoic Sikouzi section in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications. ACTA Geologica Sinaca, 2013.10, 87(10): 1551-1569 ( in Chinese with English Abstract ).

Jianhui LiuPeizhen ZhangDewen Zheng et al., 2013. Cenozoic exhumation and uplift of the North Qinling Range, Central China, in response to intracontinent range-parallel extension: results (constraints or insights) from apatite fission track thermochronology. Tectonophics584:281-296

Wang Weitao, Kirby Eric, Zhang Peizhen, Zheng Dewen, Zhang Guangliang, Zhang Huiping, Zheng Wenjun, Chai Chizhang. Tertiary basin evolution along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for basin formation during Oligocene transtension. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, 2013.4, 125(3-4): 377-400.

Dao-Yang Yuan, Wei-Peng Ge, Zhen-Wei Chen, Chuan-You Li, Zhi-Cai Wang, Hui-Ping Zhang, Pei-Zhen Zhang, De-Wen Zheng, Wen-Jun Zheng, William H. Craddock,  Katherine E. Dayem,  Alison R. Duvall, Brian G. Hough,  Richard O. Lease,  Jean-Daniel Champagnac, Douglas W. Burbank, Marin K. Clark, Kenneth A. Farley,  Carmala N. Garzione,  Eric Kirby,  Peter Molnar, Gerard H. Roe (2013). The growth of northeastern tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: a review of recent studies. Tectonics, 32(5), 1358-1370.

Pang, J. Z., Zheng, D. W., Wan, J. L.,et al., 2013. Insufficient thermalization effects on determining fission-track ages. Science China Earth Sciences, 56(7):1233-1241.

Yang JingZheng Dewen, Li Daming et al.,2012. The Preliminary Investigation of Diffusion Kinetics of Supergene Yavapaiite and Its Significance. Scince in China, (D), 55(12): 1996-2004.

Zhang, H.P., W. H. Craddock, R. O. Lease, W.t. Wang, D.Y. Yuan, P.Z. Zhang, P. Molnar, D.W. Zheng, and W.J. Zheng (2012), Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Chaka basin and its implications for mountain building processes in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Basin Res., 24, 31–50

Craddock W. H., E. Kirby, Zh. Dewen, and Liu. Jianhui (2012), Tectonic setting of Cretaceous basins on the NE Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the Jungong basin, Basin Res., 24, 51–69.

Wang Z., Zhang P., Garzione C. N., Lease R. O., Zhang G., & Zheng D., et al. (2012). Magnetostratigraphy and depositional history of the miocene wushan basin on the ne tibetan plateau, china: implications for middle miocene tectonics of the west qinling fault zone. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 44(1), 189-202.

Lease R. O., Burbank D. W., Clark M. K., Farley K. A., Zheng D.W., and Zhang H.P. (2011), Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation al ong the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geology, 39, 359–362, doi:10.1130/G31356.1.

Wang Wei-tao, Zhang Pei-Zhen, Kirby Eric, Wang Li-Hua, Zhang Guang-Liang, Zheng, De-Wen, Chai Chi-Zhang. A revised chronology for Tertiary sedimentation in the Sikouzi basin: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the northeastern corner of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 2011.6.3, 505 (1-4): 100-114.

Zheng Dewen, Clark M., Zhang Peizhen et al., Erosion, fault initiation and topographic growth of the North Qilian Shan (northernTibetan Plateau), Geosphere,2010, 6(6):937–941; doi: 10.1130

LIU JianHui, ZHANG PeiZhen, ZHENG DeWen, et al., 2010. Pattern and timing of late Cenozoic rapid exhumation and uplift of the Helan Mountain, China. Scince in China, (D),  53.3: 345–355, doi: 10.1007/s11430-010-0016-0

Liu Jianhui, Zhang Peizhen, Zheng Dewen, Wan Jinglin, Wang Weitao. The cooling history of Cenozoic exhumation and uplift of the Taibai Mountain, QinlingChina: evidence from the apatite fission track (AFT) analysis. Chinese J. Geophys., 2010, 53(10): 2405-2414. ( in Chinese with English Abstract )

Clark, M. K., Farley, K. A., Zheng, D., Wang, Z., & Duvall, A. R. (2010). Early cenozoic faulting of the northern tibetan plateau margin from apatite (U–Th)/He ages. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 296(1), 78-88.

Dewen Zheng, Pei-Zhen Zhang, Jinlin Wan et al. Rapid exhumation at ~8 Ma on the Liupan Shan thrust fault from apatite fission-track thermochronology: Implications for growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006, (248) : 183–193

Zheng Dewen, Zhang Peizhen, Wan Jinglin et.al., 2005. Apatite fission track evidence for thermal history of Liupanshan basin. Chinese Journal of Geoghysics, 48(1):170-178

Zheng DW, Zhang PZ, Wan JL, Li DM, Wang F, Yuan DY and Zhang GL. The 40Ar/39Arfission track evidence of  Mesozoic  tectonic  in northern margin of west Qinling mountainActa  Petrologica Sinica20042003):697-706. ( in Chinese with English Abstract )

Zheng Dewen, Zhang Pei zhen, Wan Ji ngl i n, Yuan Daoyang, Li Daming, Wang Jianping, Yin Jingwu, Li Chuanyou, Wang Zhicai. Tectonic event, Climate and conglomerate: example from Jishishan mountain and Linxia basin. Quaternary Sciences, 2004,  36 (5):  2006 Vol. 26 (1): 63-69 ( in Chinese with English Abstract )

Zheng D., Zhang P., Wan J. et al., 2003. Late Cenozoic deformation subsequence in northeastern margin of Tibet_Detrital AFT records from Linxia Basin, Science in China (Series D), 46(Sup.), 266-275

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