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Name: Yi Yan (闫义)

Title: Professor

Phone: +86-02085290212

Email: yanyi@gig.ac.cn 

 

Education:

1996-1999 MSc Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, Chinese Academic of Sciences.

1999-2002 PhD Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, Chinese Academic of Sciences.

Thesis Title: Implication of detrital sediments in the Beipiao Basin to the coupling                             relationship between sedimentary basin and orogenic belt

 

Employment:

2002-present  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005-2006     One year Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, UCL-Bbk, UK

2011-2012     One year Visiting Research Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Research Interests:

Marine Geology, Sedimentary process of the South China Sea, basins in the South China Sea and links to coupling between climate-erosion and regional tectonics.


Recent Publications:

Xinchang Zhang, Yuejun Wang, Ron Harris, Yi Yan, Yi Zheng, Discovery of Middle-Late Devonian and Early Permian magmatic events in East Asia and its implication for the Indosinian orogeny in South China: Insights from sedimentary record, Geological Society of America Bulletin, In press. SCI, IF: 4.039

Xinchang Zhang, Yuejun Wang, Peter D. Clift, Yi Yan, Yuzhi Zhang, Le Zhang, Paleozoic Tectonic Setting and Paleogeographic Evolution of the Qin-Fang Region, Southern South China Block: Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronological and Hf Isotopic Constraints, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018, 19, 10.1029/2018GC007713. SCI, IF:2.980

Yi Yan*, Deng Yao, Zhi-Xian Tian, Chi-Yue Huang, Yildirim Dilek, Peter D. Clift, Zi-An LiTectonic Topography Changes in Cenozoic East Asia: A Landscape Erosion-Sediment Archive in the South China Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018, 19, 1731–1750. https://doi. org/10.1029/2017GC007356. SCI, IF: 2.980

Yi Yan*, Deng Yao, Zhixian Tian, Chiyue Huang, Wenhuang Chen, M. Santosh, Graciano P. Yumul Jr., Carla B. DimalantaZircon U-Pb chronology and Hf isotope from the Palawan - Mindoro Block, Philippines: Implication to provenance and tectonic evolution of the South China SeaTectonics, 2018, 37, 41063-1076https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004942. SCI, IF: 3.580

Mengming Yu, Yi Yan*, Chi-Yue Huang, Xinchang Zhang, Zhixian Tian, Wen-Huang Chen, M. Santosh, Opening of the South China Sea and Upwelling of the Hainan Plume, Geophysical Research Letters, 2018, 45, 62600-2609https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076872. SCI, IF: 4.340

Wen-Huang Chen, Chi-Yue Huang, Yi Yan*, Dilek Yildirim, Duofu Chen, Minghui Wang, Xinchang ZhangStratigraphy and provenance of forearc sequences in the Lichi Mélange, Coastal Range: Geological records of active Taiwan arc-continent collisionJournal Geophysical Research2017122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014378, 7408-7436. SCI, IF:3.480

Zengjie Zhang, J. Stephen Daly, Chang’an Li, Shane Tyrrell, Xilin Sun, Yi Yan*. Sedimentary provenance constraints on drainage evolution models for SE Tibet: evidence from detrital K-feldspar Geophysical Research Letters201744, 4064-4073, 10.1002/2017GL073185. SCI, IF:4.340

Xinchang Zhang, Chiyue Huang, Yuejun Wang, Peter D. Clift, Yi Yan, Xiaowei Fu, Duofu Chen, Evolving Yangtze River Reconstructed by Detrital Zircon U-Pb Dating and Petrographic Analysis of Miocene Marginal Sea Sedimentary Rocks of the Western Foothills and Hengchun Peninsula, TaiwanTectonics,2017,36, 634–651, doi:10.1002/2016TC004357. SCI, IF:3.580

Qing Lan, Yi Yan*, Chi-Yue Huang, Ye-Hua Shan, Wenhuang Chen, Mengming Yu. Topographic architecture and drainage reorganization in Southeast China: Zircon U-Pb chronology and Hf isotope evidence from Taiwan, Gondwana Research, 2016, 36, 376–389. SCI, IF:5.657

Xinchang Zhang, Peter A. Cawood, Chi-Yue Huang, Yi Yan*, M. Santosh, Wenhuang Chenb and Mengming Yu, From convergent plate margin to arc-continent collision: formation of the Kenting Mélange, southern Taiwan, Gondwana Research, 2016, 38,171–182. SCI, IF:5.657

Wen-Huang Chen, Chi-Yue Huang*, Yen-Jun Lin, Quanhong Zhao, Yi Yan*, Duofu Chen, Xinchang Zhang, Qing Lan and Mengming Yu. Depleted deep South China Sea δ13C paleoceanographic events in response to tectonic evolution in Taiwan–Luzon Strait since Middle Miocene, Deep Sea Research Part II, 2015, 122195-225. SCI, IF:2.451

Qing Lan, Yi Yan*, Chi-Yue Huang, Peter D. Clift, Xuejie Li, Wenhuang Chen,Xingchang Zhang, and Mengming Yu,Tectonics, topography, and river system transition in East Tibet: Insights from the sedimentary record in Taiwan, Geochemistry, Geophysics,Geosystems,10.1002/2014GC005310

Xinchang Zhang, Yi Yan*, Chi-Yue Huang, Duofu Chen, Yehua Shan, Qin Lan,Wenhuang Chen, Mengming Yu, Provenance analysis of the Miocene accretionary prism of the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan, and regional geological significance, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 85 (2014) 26–39

Chi-Yue Huang, Yi Yen, Ping-Mei Liew, Dai-Jie He, Significance of indigenous Eocene larger foraminiferaDiscocyclina dispansain Western Foothills, Central Taiwan: A Paleogene marine rift basin in Chinese continental margin2013JAES, 62425–437

Shan, Y., Nie, G., Yan, Y., Huang, Q., 2013. The transition from the passive to active continental margin: a case study of brittle fractures in the Miocene Loshui sandstone on the Hengchun peninsula, southern Taiwan. Tectonics32, 1–15.

Chi-Yue Huang, Yen Yi, Wen-Ron Chi, Ping-Mei Liew,The first record of Eocene sequence in a marine Paleogene rifting basin unconformable beneath the latest Oligocene post-rifting strata near Nantou, Western Foothills, central TaiwanJAES,,2013693–16

Huang C Y, Yen Y, Zhao Q H, et al. Cenozoic stratigraphy of Taiwan: Looking into rifting, stratigraphy and paleoceanography of South China Sea. Chin Sci Bull, 2012, 57, doi: 10.1007/s11434-012-5349-y

Yi Yan, Andy Carter, Chi-Yue HuangLung-Sang ChanQing Lan. Constraints on Cenozoic regional drainage evolution of SW China from the provenance of the Jianchuan Basin.Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2012,Q03001,doi:10.1029/2011GC003803.!10#

Yi Yan Andy CarterCarl Palk, Stephanie Brichau,Xiaoqiong Hu. 2011,  Understanding sedimentation in the Song Song–Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12, Q06014, doi:10.1029/2011GC003533

Yi Yan Ge Lin Andy Carter . Sedimentary provenance of the Hengyang and Mayang basins, SE China, and implications for the Mesozoic topographic change in South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon geochronology. JAES, 2011,41:494-503

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Hu, X., Detrital zircon and apatite fission track data in the Liaoxi basins: Implication to Meso-Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution of the northern margin of the North China Craton. Journal of Earth System Science, 2010, 1194):541–552.

Yan, Y., Carter, A., Xia, B., Lin, G., Brichau, S, Hu, X., 2009. A fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometric study of the northern margin of the South China Sea: An example of a complex passive margin. Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.030

Yan Yi, Lin Ge, Xia Bin.Denudation history of onshore South China Block: constraints on morphotectonic evolution of the northern margin of the South China Sea Journal of Earth Science2009,201):5765.

Yan, Y., Xia, B., Lin, G., 2007. Geochemistry of the sediments from the Nanxiong Basin, South China and implications for provenance, paleoenvironment and paleoclimate at the K/T boundary. Sedimentary Geology, v197: p.127-140

Yan, Y., Xia, B., Lin, G., Carter, A., Hu, X., Liu, B., Cui, X., Yan, P., Song, Z. 2007. Geochemical and Nd isotope compositions of detrital sediments on the north margin of the South China Sea: provenance and tectonic implications. Sedimentology, v54, p.1-17 doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00816.x

Yan, Y., Xia, B., Lin, G., Wang, Y., Li, Z., Yuan, G. 2006. U-Pb dating on single detrital zircon grains of Mesozoic sandstone from Beipiao basin in the eastern Yan-Liao Orogenic Belt, China: provenance and tectonic evolution correlations. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v26, p.669-681

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Xia, B., Li, Z., 2005. Thermochronology of Mesozoic sandstones from the Beipiao basin and Meso-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern. Yan-Liao Orogenic Belt. Acta Geologica Sinica, v2, p.254-263

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Li, Z., He, S., Xu, Z., 2003. Detrital composition of Mesozoic sandstone and its implication for provenance and tectonic evolution of Beipiao basin, Western Liaoning Province. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v21, p.441-447 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Li, Z., 2003. Provenance of sediments by synthetic study of shape, composition and chronology of zircon. Geotectonica et Metollogenia, v27 p.184-188 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Wang, Y., 2003. Apatite fission-track age of Mesozoic sandstones in Beipiao basin: Implications for provenance and tectonic evolution. Geochemical Journal, v3, p.377-389.

Yan, Y., Lin, G., 2002. Characteristics of the Jurassic filling sequence and the indication of tectonic evolution of Beipiao basin. Journal of Stratigraphy, v26, p.151-155 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Wang, Y., Guo, F., 2002. Indication of continental detrital sediments to tectonic setting. Advances in Earth Sciences, v17, p.85-90(In Chinese with English Abstract)

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Li, Z., Zhuo, C., 2002. Stratigraphy of Mesozoic and Cenozoic intracontinental orogenic zones: an example from the Yanliao Orogenic Belt. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, v22, p.60-64 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

Yan, Y., Lin, G., Li, Z., Zhuo, C., 2001. Depositional characteristics of Mesozoic conglomerates and indication to the structural development of the Beipiao basin. Geotectonica et Metallogenia, v25 p.361-367 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

Li, Z., Yan, Y., 2000. Dynamic study on orogenic belt-basin systems in northeast China. Geotectonica et Metallogenia, v24, p.31-37 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

 

Grants:

2014-2018Cenozoic stratigraphy of Mindoro, Philippines: Window into rifting of the South China Sea (No. 41476036)

2012-2015 Provenance analysis of the Miocene accretionary prism of the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan, and regional geological significance (No.41176041)

2011-2013 Taiwan Orogenic Belt and implication to the evolution of the South China Sea, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-EW-101)

2010-2012 Erosion of three-river gorges in east Tibet: zircon, apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry study, National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNo.40972130

2008-2012 Tectonic regime and structural evolution of deepwater area in the northern margin of the South China Sea, Major State Basic Research Program of People's Republic of China (No.2009CB219401)

2008-2010 Erosion history of the northern margin of the South China Sea and East Tibet,

NSFC-RS International Joint project (IJP 2007/R3)

2007-2010 Basin sedimentation in the Pearl Mouth Basin of northern South China Sea and exhumation of the South China Block: constraint on erosion and regional tectonics, National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNo.40776024

2003-2006 Sedimentary records in the Yinggehai Basin and Cenozoic evolution of northern South China Sea, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40306010)

2002-2005 Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2 SW-117)

2000-2004 Numerical simulation study of Meso-Cenozoic structure distortion of typical structural region in East China, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-113)

1999-2002 Basin sedimentary record to the uplift and erosion of orogenic belt, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 49972045)

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