

My primary research interest focuses on structural geology and tectonics, particularly in the continental deformation and geodynamic reconstruction. I try to integrate field-based geologic work with geochronological, geophysical and isotopic data, to study the temporal and spatial evolution of deformation, magmatic and metamorphic events and to link them with geodynamic processes. I am also interested in linking deep tectonics with surface processes (e.g. mountain building). The recent research areas are in eastern Australia, Central Asia, eastern Himalaya and south China Sea.
1. Ling, J.,Li, P., Yuan, C., Chen, M., Yang, W., Jiang, Y., Lin, C., Zhang, C., Li, Z., Tserendash, N., 2026, Early Cretaceous uplift of the Hangay Mountains (central Mongolia): a consequence of lithosphere foundering following oroclinal bending, Geology,https://doi.org/10.1130/G54383.1 (supervised PhD student as the first author)
2. Li, J., Li, P., Huang, H., Li, Z., Yuan, C., 2026, Late Paleozoic reconstruction of trench migration in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for geodynamics of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Tectonics 45, e2025TC008979. (supervised postdoctoral researcher as the first author).
3. Li, Z., Li, P., Rosenbaum, G., Cawood, P., Wang, Q., Yuan, C., Shen, J., 2025. Rivers of change: How the Gondwanide orogeny altered Late Triassic global climate, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 671, 119687. (supervised PhD student as the first author).
4. Liu, B., Ma, J., Li, P., Hong, Y., Feng, W., 2025. First boron isotopes in the southern Jilin TTG series uncover a Neoarchean oceanic arc in the eastern North China Craton. Gondwana Research 139, 243-259.
5. Ling, J., Li, P., Yuan, C., Narantsetseg, T., 2025. Decoupling between Nd-Hf isotopic evolution of Permian to Triassic granitoids and crustal thickness variation in the westernmost Mongol-Okhotsk Orogen. Geological Magazine, 162, e16. (supervised PhD student as the first author).
6. Yue, Y.-F., Xia, X.-P., Li, P., He, B., Peng, T., Sun, M., Xu, J., Prasanth, M.P.M., 2025. Revisiting the high temperature Darongshan-Shiwandashan granitoids in the South China: A response to slab tearing associated with diachronous collision between Indochina and South China blocks. LITHOS 494-495, 107898.
7. Ma, S.-Y., He, B., Xia, X.-P., Li, P.-F., Lai, C.-K., Bartoli, O., 2024. The development of a pull-apart basin in response to collision of the irregular South China continental margin with Indochina. GSA Bulletin.
8. Ling, J., Li, P., Yuan, C., Rosenbaum, G., Sun, M., Li, Z., Narantsetseg, T., 2024. The bending of a supra-subduction zone produced crustal thickening and arc migration of the Mongolian Orocline. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 329. (supervised PhD student as the first author)
9. Wang, X., Sun, M., Cai, K., Zhao, G., Xiao, W., Xia, X., Li, P., 2024. Crustal recycling and growth via mélange diapir in subduction zones: Insights from two episodes of magmatism in the Northern Yili Block, NW China. GSA Bulletin, 10.1130/b36447.1.
10. Wei, B., Wang, C.Y., Li, P., 2024. Syn-collisional extension and Ni-Cu sulfide-bearing mafic magma emplacement along the Irtysh Shear Zone in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. GSA Bulletin 136, 403-417.
11. Chen, Z.-W., Yuan, C., Huang, Z.-Y., Jiang, Y.-D., Li, P.-F., Xiao, M., Wang, X.-Y., Zhang, Y.-Y., Wang, Q., 2024. Tungsten enrichment processes in peraluminous granites of the Chinese Altai. Ore Geology Reviews 172, 106211.
12. Kong, L., Jiang, Y., Li, P., Collett, S., Xiao, M., 2023. Devonian subduction retreat recorded in the Chinese Altai Orogen: Petro-structural and geochronological constraints from orogenic lower crust migmatite-granite complexes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 244, 105540
13. Hu, W., Li, P., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Jiang, Y., Cai, K., Zhang, C., 2023. Structural and Geochronological Constraints on the Collision Between the Chinese Altai and the West Junggar in Central Asia: Implication for Deformation Response and Geodynamic Evolution of Arc-Arc Collision in 4D. Tectonics 42, e2023TC007770. (supervised PhD student as the first author)
14. Ning, J., Jiang, Y.-D., Schulmann, K., Wang, S., Li, P.-F., Shi, S., Qiu, H.-N., 2023. Silurian-Devonian Lithospheric Thinning and Thermally Softening Along the Northern Margin of the Tarim Craton: Geological Mapping, Petro-Structural Analysis and Geochronological Constraints. Tectonics 42, e2023TC007792.
15. Zhang, Y., Zheng, D., Li, P., Yu, J., Li, C., Zhang, W., Wang, J., 2023. Paleocene rapid exhumation of Hong Kong: Implications for the Cenozoic rifting along the northern margin of the South China Sea. Tectonophysics 868, 230082.
16. Mo, J., Xia, X.-P., Li, P.-F., Spencer, C.J., Lai, C.-K., Xu, J., Yang, Q., Sun, M.-D., Yu, Y., Milan, L., 2023. Water-in-zircon: a discriminant between S- and I-type granitoid. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 178, 5.
17. Li, P., Sun, M., Narantsetseg, T., Jourdan, F., Hu, W., Yuan, C., 2022. First structural observation around the hinge of the Mongolian Orocline (Central Asia): Implications for the geodynamics of oroclinal bending and the evolution of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin 134, 1994-2006.
19. Hu, W.,Li, P., Sun, M., Safonova, I., Jiang, Y., Yuan, C., Kotler, P., 2022. Provenance of late Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in eastern Kazakhstan: Implications for the collision of the Siberian margin with the Kazakhstan collage.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences232, 104978. (supervised PhD student as the first author)
24.Li, P., Sun, M., Yuan, C., Jourdan, F., Hu, W., Jiang, Y., 2021. Late Paleozoic tectonic transition from subduction to collision in the Chinese Altai and Tianshan (Central Asia): new geochronological constraints. American Journal of Science 321, 178-205.
25. He, L., Sun, X., Li, P., Ai, S., Li, J., 2021. Lithospheric Structure Near Jiuyishan, South China: Implications for Asthenospheric Upwelling and Lithospheric Modification. Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2021GL096572.
27. Kotler, P., Khromykh, S., Kruk, N., Sun, M., Li, P., Khubanov, V., Semenova, D., Vladimirov, A., 2021. Granitoids of the Kalba batholith, Eastern Kazakhstan: U–Pb zircon age, petrogenesis and tectonic implications. LITHOS 388-389, 106056.
29. Ling, J.,Li, P., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Zhang, Y., Narantsetseg, T., Wang, X., Jiang, Y., Hu, W., 2021. Ordovician to Devonian granitic plutons in the Hangay Range, Central Mongolia: Petrogenesis and insights into the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the westernmost Mongol-Okhotsk Orogen.LITHOS404-405, 106463. (supervised PhD student as the first author)
31. Hu, W., Li, P., Rosenbaum, G., Liu, J., Jourdan, F., Jiang, Y., Wu, D., Zhang, J., Yuan, C., and Sun, M., 2020, Structural evolution of the eastern segment of the Irtysh Shear Zone: Implications for the collision between the East Junggar Terrane and the Chinese Altai Orogen (northwestern China): Journal of Structural Geology, 139, 104126. (supervised PhD student as the first author)
32. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Cai, K., Yuan, C., Jourdan, F., Xia, X., Jiang, Y., Zhang, Y., 2020. Tectonic evolution of the Chinese Tianshan Orogen from subduction to arc-continent collision: Insight from polyphase deformation along the Gangou section, Central Asia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132, 2529-2552.
33. Zhang, Y., Li, P., Sun, M., and Yuan, C. (2020), Late Paleozoic to early Triassic granitoids from the Rudny Altai, Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Petrogenesis and implications for continental crustal evolution, Solid Earth Sciences 5, 115-129.
34. Huang, Y., Jiang, Y., Collett, S., Wang, S., Xu, K., Shu, T., Li, P., Yuan, C., 2020. Magmatic recycling of accretionary wedge: A new perspective on Silurian-Devonian I-type granitoids generation in the Chinese Altai. Gondwana Research 78, 291-307.
35. Zhang, Y., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Long, X., Huang, Z., Jiang, Y., Li, P., Du, L., 2020. Two late Carboniferous belts of Nb-enriched mafic magmatism in the Eastern Tianshan: Heterogeneous mantle sources and geodynamic implications. Geological Society of America Bulletin 5, 115-129
36. Li, P., Sun, M., Shu, C., Yuan, C., Jiang, Y., Zhang, L., Cai, K., 2019. Evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt along the Siberian margin from Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic accretion to Devonian trench retreat and a comparison with Phanerozoic eastern Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 198, 102951.
37. Zhang, Y., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Chen, M., Hong, L., Li, J., Long, X., Li, P., Lin, Z., 2019. Recycled oceanic crust in the form of pyroxenite contributing to the Cenozoic continental basalts in central Asia: new perspectives from olivine chemistry and whole-rock B–Mo isotopes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 83.
38. Jiang, Y.D., Schulmann, K., Sun, M., Weinberg, R.F., Štípská, P., Li, P.F., Zhang, J., Chopin, F., Wang, S., Xia, X.P., Xiao, W.J., 2019. Structural and Geochronological Constraints on Devonian Suprasubduction Tectonic Switching and Permian Collisional Dynamics in the Chinese Altai, Central Asia. Tectonics 38, 253-280.
39. Chen, M., Sun, M., Li, P., Zheng, J., Cai, K., & Su, Y. (2019), Late Paleozoic Accretionary and Collisional Processes along the Southern Peri-Siberian Orogenic System: New Constraints from Amphibolites within the Irtysh Complex of Chinese Altai, The Journal of Geology 127, 241-262.
40. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Yuan, C., Safonova, I., Cai, K., Jiang, Y., and Zhang, Y., 2018, Geometry, kinematics and tectonic models of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 153, 42-56.
41. Zhang, Y., Sun, M., Yuan, C., Long, X., Jiang, Y., Li, P., Huang, Z., Du, L., 2018. Alternating Trench Advance and Retreat: Insights From Paleozoic Magmatism in the Eastern Tianshan, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Tectonics 37, 2142-2164.
42. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Jourdan, F., Li, S., Cai, K, 2017. Late Paleozoic closure of the Ob-Zaisan Ocean along the Irtysh Shear Zone (NW China), Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Geological Society of American Bulletin. 129, 547-569.
43. Yu, Y., Sun, M., Long, X., Li, P., Zhao, G., Kröner, A., Broussolle, A., and Yang, J., 2017, Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting: Gondwana Research 47, 131–141.
44. Yu, Y., Sun, M., Huang, X.-L., Zhao, G., Li, P., Long, X., Cai, K., and Xia, X., 2017, Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos 284–285, 207-221.
45. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Cai, K. Chen, M., He, Y., 2016. Transpressional deformation, strain partitioning and fold superimposition in the southern Chinese Altai, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Structural Geology, 87, 64-80.
46. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Jiang, Y., Cai, K., 2016. Structural evolution of zonal metamorphic sequences in the southern Chinese Altai and relationships to Permian transpressional tectonics in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.11.035
47. Wang, G.-G., Ni, P., Zhao, C., Wang, X.-L., Li, P., Chen, H., Zhu, A.-D., Li, L., 2016. Spatiotemporal reconstruction of Late Mesozoic silicic large igneous province and related epithermal mineralization in South China: Insights from the Zhilingtou volcanic-intrusive complex. J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth 121, 7903-7928
48. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G., Yang, J-H, Hoy, D., 2015. Australian-derived detrital zircons in the Permian-Triassic Gympie terrane (eastern Australia): evidence for an autochthonous origin. Tectonics 34, doi:10.1002/2015TC003829.
49. Li, P., Sun, M., Rosenbaum, G., Cai, K., Yu, Y., 2015. Structural evolution of the Irtysh Shear Zone (northwestern China) and implications for the amalgamation of arc systems in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Structural Geology 80, 142-156.
50. Li, P., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Long, X, Cai, K, 2015, Thermochronological constraints on the late Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Altai, Journal of Asian Earth Science 113, 51-60.
51. He, Y., Sun, M., Cai, K., Xiao, W., Zhao, G., Long, X., Li, P., 2015. Petrogenesis of the Devonian High-Mg rock association and its tectonic implication for the Chinese Altai orogenic belt, NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 113, 61-74.
52. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G., 2015. Reply to comment by Offler et al. on “Does the Manning orocline exist? New structural evidence from the inner hinge of the Manning Orocline (eastern Australia)”. Gondwana Research 27, 1689-1691
53. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G. and Vasconcelos, P., 2014, Chronological constraints on the Permian geodynamic evolution of eastern Australia, Tectonophysics 617, 20-30.
54. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G., 2014. Does the Manning Orocline exist? New structural evidence from the inner hinge of the Manning Orocline (eastern Australia). Gondwana Research 25, 1599-1613.
55. Wang, G.-G., Ni, P., Yu, W., Chen, H., Jiang, L.-L., Wang, B.-H., Zhang, H.-D., Li, P.-F., 2014. Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous post-collisional granitoids at Shapinggou, Dabie Orogen: Implications for crustal architecture and porphyry Mo mineralization. Lithos 184–187, 393-415.
56. Shaanan, U., Rosenbaum, G., Li, P., Vasconcelos, P., 2014. Structural evolution of the early Permian Nambucca Block (New England Orogen, eastern Australia) and implications for oroclinal bending. Tectonics 33, doi:10.1002/2013TC003426.
57. Rosenbaum, G. Li, P. and Rubatto, D., 2012. The contorted New England Orogen (eastern Australia): new evidence from U-Pb geochronology of early Permian granitoids, Tectonics 31, doi:10.1029/2011TC002960
58. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G. and Donchak P.J.T., 2012. Structural Evolution of the Texas Orocline, eastern Australia, Gondwana Research 22, 279-289.
59. Li, P., Rosenbaum, G. and Rubatto, D., 2012, Triassic asymmetric subduction rollback in the southern New England Orogen (eastern Australia): the end of the Hunter-Bowen orogeny, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 59, 965-981.

