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Name: Lin Ma  (马林)
 Title: Professor
 Email: malin@gig.ac.cn
—————— RESUME:
 Lin Ma is a solid Earth petrologist who carries out research on petrogenesis of Igneous rocks and geodynamics in convergent orogens, currently, focused on the Himalaya-Tibet Plateau and Kohistan. Through petrological studies, he reconstructed a series of detailed dynamic processes including subduction, roll-back, break-off of Neo-Tethys Oceanic lithosphere and deep subduction of the Indian continent crust in southern Tibet during the late Mesozoic to Cenozoic. Lin is also concerned with the formation, evolution, and mineralization of the Earth's continental crust and geochemical cycle on convergent margins and intraplate volcanism. He revealed that southern Tibet was once an ancient microcontinent terrane that was displaced by Juvenile crust during the oceanic subduction. He used Sr-Nd-Hf-B isotope data to reveal that the continental crustal materials from the Indian and Asian recycled into the lithospheric mantle beneath the Tibetan orogen during Eocene. Lin has long collaborated with Professor Andrew Kerr of Cardiff University, Professor Derek Wyman of Sydney University and Professor Zheng-Xiang Li of Curtin University on petrology and dynamics. Lin has published more than 50 papers in international important journals, including Nat. Comm., Geology, JGR, GCA, JPet, EPSL, Chem. Geol. and Lithos. These papers have been cited more than 1,600 times and h-index is 19. Lin is now youth editor of "The Innovation" and " Geochimica". He is also an avid reviewer and has been a long-time reviewer for academic journals, such as Nat. Comm., Geology, GCA, JPet, Tectonics, GSAB, Lithos and so on.
 For his scientific contributions Charlie has received President's Award of Excellence of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association in 2017. He was also considered an Outstanding Contribution in review by Lithos in 2016 and 2018 and by JAES in 2017.
 Lin received his B.A. from Lanzhou University in 2006, and Ph.D. from the Chinses Academy of Sciences University in 2013. He has been at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry since 2013.
—————— RESEARCH INTERESTS:
 Petrogenesis of Igneous rock;
 Formation, compositional fractionation and evolution of Continental crust;
 Formation, migration, storage, recharge, and cooling of Magma;
 Geochemical cycle of elements and deposit formation
—————— EDUCATION:
     2002-2006   B.A. – Lanzhou University – Geology
    2006-2009   M.S. – Chinese Academic of Sciences University – Structural Geology
     2009-2013  Ph.D. – Chinese Academic of Sciences University – Geochemistry, Thesis Title: Petrogenesis of Late Mesozoic mafic rocks in the Gangdese area, Southern Tibet: implications for crustal growth and geodynamics, Thesis Advisor: Qiang Wang
—————— EMPLOYMENT:
     2013-2015   Assistant Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)；
     2016-2021   Associated Professor, GIG, CAS；
     2022-        Profess, GIG, CAS；
—————— AWARDS:
     2013   President's Award of Excellence, Chinese Academy of Sciences
     2016   Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing,
    2017   Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association
     2017   Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, < Journal of Asian Earth Science >
     2018   Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing,
    2021   Outstanding young scientist, National Natural Science Foundation of China

Research Interests：
1) Petrogenesis of Igneous rocks and geodynamics in convergent plate margins (currently, focused on the Himalaya-Tibet Plateau, Kohistan);
2) Factors controlling continental crust formation, differentiation and evolution;
3) Relationship between magmatic processes and Nb-Ta mineralization;
4) Subduction erosion and material recycling in subduction zones.

Recent Publications：

2023

[1]. Ma, L., Wang, Q., Kerr, A.C., Li, Z.X., Dan, W., Yang, Y.N., Zhou, J.S., Wang, J., Li, C., 2023. Eocene magmatism in the Himalaya: Response 1 to lithospheric flexure during early Indian collision? Geology, 51(1), 96–100, DOI:10.1130/G50438.1.

2022

[2]. Wang, J., Gleeson, M., Smith, W.D., Ma, L., Lei, Z.B., Shi, G.H., Chen, L., 2022. The Factors Controlling Along-arc and Across-arc Variations of Primitive Arc Magma Compositions: A Global Perspective, Frontiers in Earth Science. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.1055255

[3]. Zhou, J.S., Huang, C.C., Wang, Q., Ren, Z.Y., Ma, L., Hao L.L., Zhang L., 2022. Olivines and Their Melt Inclusions in Potassic Volcanic Rocks Record Mantle Heterogeneity beneath the Southern Tibet, Journal of Petrology, 63(11), https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac103.

[4]. Fan, J. J., Wang, Q., Ma, L., Li, J., Zhang, X.Z., Zhang, L., Wang, Z.L., 2022. Extreme Mo isotope variations recorded in high-SiO2 granites: Insights into magmatic differentiation and melt–fluid interaction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 334, 241-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.08.009.

[5]. Zhang, M.-Y., Hao, L.-L., Wang, Q., Qi, Y., Ma, L., 2022. B–Sr–Nd isotopes of Miocene trachyandesites in Lhasa block of southern Tibet: Insights into petrogenesis and crustal reworking. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:953364, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.953364.

[6]. Hao, L. L., Wang, Q., Ma, L., Qi, Y., & Yang, Y. N., 2022. Differentiation of continent crust by cumulate remelting during continental slab tearing: Evidence from Miocene high-silica potassic rocks in southern Tibet. Lithos, 106780.

[7]. Liu, X., Liang, H., Wang, Q.*, Ma, L.*, Yang, J.H., Guo, H.F., Xiong, X.L., Ou, Q., Zeng, J.P., Gou, G.N., Hao, L.L., 2022. Early Cretaceous Sn-bearing granite porphyries, A-type granites, and rhyolites in the Mikengshan–Qingxixiang–Yanbei area, South China: Petrogenesis and implications for ore mineralization. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,105274.

[8]. Tang, G.J., Wyman, D.A., Wang, Q. Ma, L., Dan, W., Yang, Y.N., Liu, X.J., Chen, H.Y., 2022. Links between continental subduction and generation of Cenozoic potassic–ultrapotassic rocks revealed by olivine oxygen isotopes: A case study from NW Tibet. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01920-x

[9]. Hao, L.L., Wang, Q., Kerr, A.C., Wei, G.J., Huang, F., Zhang, M.Y., Qi, Y., Ma, L., Chen, X.F., Yang, Y.N., 2022. Contribution of continental subduction to very light B isotope signatures in post-collisional magmas: Evidence from southern Tibetan ultrapotassic rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117508.

[10]. Huang T.Y., Wang, Q., Wyman, D.A., Ma, L., Zhang, Z.P., Dong, H., 2022. Subduction erosion revealed by Late Mesozoic magmatism in the Gangdese arc, South Tibet. Geophysical Research Letters. 49, e2021GL097360. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097360.

2021

[11]. Ma, L., Gou, G.N., Kerr, A.C., Wang, Q.*, Wei, G.J., Yang, J.H., Shen, X.M., 2021. B isotopes reveal Eocene mélange melting in northern Tibet during continental subduction. Lithos, 106146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106146.

[12]. Ma, L.*, Wang, Q., Kerr, A.C., Tang, G.J., (2021). Nature of the pre-collisional lithospheric mantle in Central Tibet: Insights to Tibetan Plateau uplift. Lithos, 106076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106076

[13]. Fan, J.-J., Wang, Q.*, Li, J., Wei, G.-J., Ma, J.-L., Ma, L.*, Li, Q.-W., Jiang, Z.-Q., Zhang, L., Wang, Z.-L., and Zhang, L., 2021, Boron and molybdenum isotopic fractionation during crustal anatexis: Constraints from the Conadong leucogranites in the Himalayan Block, South Tibet.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 297, 120-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.01.005.

[14]. Liu, X., Wang, Q.*, Ma, L.*, Yang, J.H., Ma, Y.M., and Huang, T.Y., 2021. Early Paleozoic and Late Mesozoic crustal reworking of the South China Block: Insights from Early Silurian biotite granodiorites and Late Jurassic biotite granites in the Guangzhou area of the south-east Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 219: 104890.

[15]. Liu, X., Wang, Q.*, Ma, L.*, Gou, G.N., Ou, Q. and Wang, J., 2021. Late Jurassic Maofengshan two‐mica granites in Guangzhou, South China: fractional crystallization products of metasedimentary‐rock‐derived magmas. Mineralogy and Petrology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-020-00733-9

[16]. Zhou, J.S., Wang, Q., Xing, C.M., Ma, L., Hao, L.L., Li, Q.W., Wang, Z.L., Huang, T.Y., 2021. Crystal growth of clinopyroxene in mafic alkaline magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 568: 117005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117005.

[17]. Yang, Z.Y., Wang, Q., Hao, L.L., Wyman, D.A., Ma, L., Wang, J., Qi, Y., Sun, P. and Hu, W.L., 2021. Subduction erosion and crustal material recycling indicated by adakites in central Tibet. Geology. 49(6): 708–712, https://doi.org/10.1130/G48486.1

[18]. Hu, W.-L., Wang, Q*, Yang, J.-H., Tang, G.-J., Ma, L., Yang, Z.-Y., Qi, Y., and Sun, P., 2021. Petrogenesis of Late Early Cretaceous high-silica granites from the Bangong–Nujiang suture zone, Central Tibet. Lithos, 402–403, 105788.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105788.

[19]. Hao L.-L., Wang, Q*, Kerr A. C., Yang J.-H., Ma L., Qi Y., Wang J., and Ou Q. 2021. Post-collisional crustal thickening and plateau uplift of southern Tibet: Insights from Cenozoic magmatism in the Wuyu area of the eastern Lhasa block. GSA Bulletin, 133 (7-8), 1634–1648, https://doi.org/10.1130/B35659.1.

[20]. Xia X.-P., Meng J.-T., Ma L., Spencer C.J., Cui Z.X., Zhang W.F., Yang Q., Zhang L., 2021. Tracing magma water evolution by H2O-in-zircon: A case study in the Gangdese batholith in Tibet. Lithos, 106445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106445.

2020

[21]. Liu, X., Wang, Q.*, Ma, L.*, Yang, J.H., Gou, G.N., Ou, Q. and Wang, J., 2020. Early Paleozoic intracontinental granites in the Guangzhou region of South China: Partial melting of a metasediment-dominated crustal source. Lithos, 376, p.105763.

[22]. Liu, X., Wang, Q.*, Ma, L.*, Wyman, D.A., Zhao, Z.H., Yang, J.H., Zi, F., Tang, G.J., Dan, W., Zhou, J.S.. 2020. Petrogenesis of Late Jurassic Pb–Zn mineralized high δ18O granodiorites in the western Nanling Range, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 192, 104236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104236.

[23]. Liu X., Wang Q.*, Ma L.*, Yang Z.Y., Hu W.L., Ma, Y.M., Wang J., Huang T.Y., 2020. Petrogenesis of Late Jurassic two-mica granites and associated diorites and syenite porphyries in Guangzhou, SE China. Lithos. 364-365, 105537.

[24]. Hao, L.L., Wang, Q., Kerr, A.C., Yang, J.H., Ma, L., Qi, Y., Wang, J. and Ou, Q., 2020. Post-collisional crustal thickening and plateau uplift of southern Tibet: Insights from Cenozoic magmatism in the Wuyu area of the eastern Lhasa block. GSA Bulletin. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35659.1

[25]. Hu, W.L., Wang, Q., Yang, J.H., Tang, G.J., Qi, Y., Ma, L., Yang, Z.Y., Sun, P., 2020. Amphibole and whole-rock geochemistry of early Late Jurassic diorites, Central Tibet: Implications for petrogenesis and geodynamic processes. Lithos, 105644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105644.

[26]. Fan, J.J., Li, J., Wang, Q., Zhang, L., Zhang, J., Zeng, X.L., Ma, L., Wang, Z.L., 2020. High-precision molybdenum isotope analysis of low-Mo igneous rock samples by MC–ICP–MS. Chemical Geology. 545, 119648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119648.

[27]. Tang, G.J.*, Wang, Q., Wyman, D.A., Dan, W., Ma, L., Zhang, H.X., Zhao, Z.H.. 2020. Petrogenesis of the Ulungur Intrusive Complex, NW China, and Implications for Crustal Generation and Reworking in Accretionary Orogens. Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa018

2019

[28]. Ma, L., Kerr, A. C., Wang, Q., Jiang, Z.‐Q., Tang, G.‐J., Yang, J.‐H., et al. (2019). Nature and evolution of crust in southern Lhasa, Tibet: Transformation from microcontinent to juvenile terrane. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 6452–6474. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017106. 

[29]. Hao, LL; Wang, Q; Wyman, DA; Yang, JH; Huang, F., Ma, L., Crust-mantle mixing and crustal reworking of southern Tibet during Indian continental subduction: Evidence from Miocene high-silica potassic rocks in Central Lhasa block. Lithos, 2019, 342: 407-419.

[30]. Ou, Q., Wang, Q., Wyman, D.A., Zhang, C.F., Hao, L.L., Dan, W., Jiang, Z.Q., Wu, F.Y, Yang, J.H., Zhang, H.X., Xia, X.P., Ma, L., Long, X.P., Li, J., Postcollisional delamination and partial melting of enriched lithospheric mantle: Evidence from Oligocene (ca. 30 Ma) potassium-rich lavas in the Gemuchaka area of the central Qiangtang Block, Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2019, 131(7-8): 1385-1408.

[31]. Hao, L. L., Wang, Q., Wyman, D. A., Ma, L., Wang, J., Xia, X. P., Ou, Q. 2019. First identification of postcollisional A-type magmatism in the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. Geology. 47(2), 187–190.

[32]. Yang, Z.Y., Wang, Q., Yang, J.H., Dan, W., Zhang, X.Z., Ma, L., Qi, Y., Wang, J., Sun, P., 2019. Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous granites and associated microgranular enclaves in the Xiabie Co area, central Tibet: Crust-derived magma mixing and melt extraction. Lithos. 350–351, 105199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105199

[33]. Ma, Y.M. Wang, Q., Wang, J., Yang, T.S., Tan, X.D., Dan, W., Zhang, X.Z., Ma, L., Wang, Z.L., Hu, W.L., Zhang, S.H., Wu, H.C., Li, H.Y., Cao, L.W., 2019. Paleomagnetic constraints on the origin and drift history of the North Qiangtang terrane in the Late Paleozoic. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 689–697.

[34]. Yang, Z.Y., Wang, Q., Zhang, C.F., Yang, J.H., Ma, L., Wang, J., Sun, P., Qi, Y., 2019. Cretaceous (~100？Ma) high-silica granites in the Gajin area, Central Tibet: Petrogenesis and implications for collision between the Lhasa and Qiangtang Terranes. Lithos, 324–325：402-417.

2018

[35]. Ma, L., Kerr, A.C., Wang, Q., Jiang, Z.Q., Hu, W.L., 2018. Early Cretaceous (~140 Ma) aluminous A-type granites in the Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet: products of crust-mantle interaction during lithospheric extension. Lithos, 300-301, 212-226. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.11.023.

[36]. Hao, L. L., Wang, Q.*, Wyman, D. A., Qi, Y., Ma, L., Huang, F., Zhang, L., Xia, X. P., Ou, Q.. 2018. First identification of mafic igneous enclaves in Miocene lavas of southern Tibet with implications for Indian continental subduction. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(16), 8205-8213. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079061.

[37]. Shen, X., Zhang, H.X., Wang, Q., Saha, A., Ma, L., 2018. Zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of Devonian plagiogranites in the Kuerti area of southern Chinese Altay, northwest China: Petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of late Paleozoic ophiolites. Geological Journal, 53(5), 1886-1905. doi: 10.1002/gj.3020. 

2017

[38]. Ma, L., Wang, Q., Kerr, A.C., Yang, J.H., Xia, X.P., Ou, Q., Yang, Z.Y., Sun, P., 2017. Paleocene (ca. 62 Ma) leucogranites in southern Lhasa, Tibet: products of syn-collisional crustal anatexis during slab roll-back? Journal of Petrology, 58(11): 2089-2114.

[39]. Ma, L., Wang, Q., Li, Z.X., Wyman, D.A., Yang, J.H., Jiang, Z.Q., Liu, Y.S., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F. 2017. Subduction of Indian continent beneath southern Tibet in the latest Eocene (~35 Ma): Insights from the Quguosha gabbros in southern Lhasa block. Gondwana Research, 41, 77-92, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.005.

2016

[40]. Wang, Q., Hawkesworth, C. J., Wyman, D. A., Chung, S. L., Wu, F. Y., Li, X. H., Li, Z. X., Gou G. N., Zhang, X. Z., Tang, G. J., Dan, W., Ma, L., Dong, Y. H., 2016. Pliocene-Quaternary crustal melting in central and northern Tibet and insights into crustal flow. Nature communications, 7:11888, doi: 10.1038/ncomms11888.

2015

[41]. Ma, L., Wang, Q., Wyman, D. A., Jiang, Z.Q., Wu, F.Y., Li, X.H., Yang, J.H., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F. 2015. Late Cretaceous back-arc extension and arc system evolution in the Gangdese area, southern Tibet: Geochronological, petrological, and Sr-Nd-Hf-O isotopic evidence from Dagze diabases, Journal of Geophysics Research: Solid Earth, 120, 6159–6181, doi:10.1002/2015JB011966.

[42]. Jiang, Z. Q., Wang, Q., Wyman, D. A., Shi, X., Yang, J. H., Ma, L., Gou, G. N., 2015. Zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of Late Cretaceous–early Eocene granodiorites in the southern Gangdese batholith of Tibet: petrogenesis and implications for geodynamics and Cu ± Au ± Mo mineralization. International Geology Review, 57:3, 373-392.

2014

[43]. Ma, L., Wang, B.D., Jiang, Z.Q., Wang, Q.*, Li, Z.X., Wyman, D.A., Zhao, S.R., Yang, J.H., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F., 2014. Petrogenesis of the Early Eocene adakitic rocks in the Napuri area, southern Lhasa: partial melting of thickened lower crust during slab break-off and implications for crustal thickening in southern Tibet. Lithos, 196-197, 321-338.

[44]. Shen, X.M., Zhang, H.X., Wang, Q., Ma, L., Yang, Y.H. 2014. Early Silurian (~440Ma) adakitic, andesitic and Nb-enriched basaltic lavas in the southern Altay Range, Northern Xinjiang (western China): Slab melting and implications for crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Lithos, 206-207: 234-251.

[45]. Jiang, Z., Wang, Q., Wyman, D., Li, Z., Yang, J., Shi, X., Tang, G., Jia, X., Ma, L., Gou, G., Guo, H.. 2014. Transition from oceanic to continental lithosphere subduction in southern Tibet: Evidence from the Late Cretaceous-Early Oligocene (~91-30 Ma) intrusive rocks in the Chanang-Zedong area, southern Gangdese. Lithos, 196-197: 213-231.

2013

[46]. Ma, L., Wang, Q.*, Wyman, D.A., Jiang, Z.Q., Yang, J.H., Li, Q.L., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F., 2013. Late Cretaceous crustal growth of southern Tibet: Petrological and Sr-Nd-Hf-O isotopic evidence from the Zhengga diorite-gabbro suites in the Gangdese area. Chemical Geology. 349–350, 54–70.

[47]. Ma, L., Wang, Q.*, Li, Z.X., Wyman, D.A., Jiang, Z.Q., Yang, J.H., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F., 2013. Early Late Cretaceous (ca. 93 Ma) norites and hornblendites in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction during slab roll-back and an insight into early Late Cretaceous (ca. 100-80 Ma) magmatic "flare-up" in southern Lhasa (Tibet). Lithos. 172–173, 17–30.

[48]. Ma, L., Wang, Q.*, Wyman, D.A., Li, Z.X., Jiang, Z.Q., Yang, J.H., Gou, G.N., Guo, H.F.. 2013. Late Cretaceous (100-89 Ma) magnesian charnockites with adakitic affinities in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: partial melting of subducted oceanic crust and implications for crustal growth in southern Tibet. Lithos. 175–176, 315–332.

2012 & Before

[49]. Qiang Wang, Xian-Hua Li, Xiao-Hui Jia, Derek Wyman, Gong-Jian Tang, Zheng-Xiang Li, Lin Ma, Yue-Heng Yang, Zi-Qi Jiang, Guo-Ning Gou. 2012. Late Early Cretaceous adakitic granitoids and associated magnesian and potassium‐rich mafic enclaves and dikes in the Tunchang–Fengmu area, Hainan Province (South China): partial melting of lower crust and mantle and magma hybridization. Chemical Geology, 328, 222-243.

[50].Haixiang Zhang, Xiaoming Shen, Lin Ma. 2008. Geochronology of the Altay adakite and the initiation of the Paleo-Asian Ocean subduction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 72 (12S), A1081.

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