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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

An Yin was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and contributed significantly to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research predominately focused on geophysics, with notable involvement in astronomy and astrophysics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, and economics and econometrics as subfields.

Their work covered multiple main topics, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, planetary science and exploration, geochemistry and geologic mapping, astro and planetary science, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

An Yin published extensively in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues included:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geology
  • Icarus
  • Tectonics

Several recent papers demonstrate the varied scope of their research, including:

  • Permian plume-strengthened Tarim lithosphere controls the Cenozoic deformation pattern of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen (2020), published in Geology
  • Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic cooling history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its foreland derived from low-temperature thermochronology (2021), published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Punctuated Orogeny During the Assembly of Asia: Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the North China Craton and the Qilian Shan From the Paleoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic (2021), published in Tectonics
  • Late Cretaceous to Early Cenozoic extension in the Lower Yangtze region (East China) driven by Izanagi-Pacific plate subduction (2021), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Impact of fault damage on eastern Tibet topography (2020), published in Geology

Throughout their career, An Yin collaborated frequently with several researchers. Frequent co-authors included:

  • Andrew V. Zuza
  • Chen Wu
  • Peter J. Haproff
  • Wanli Tang
  • Jianlin Chen

An Yin was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen as constrained by along-strike variation of structural geometry, exhumation history, and foreland sedimentation

    An Yin

  • An indentation model for the North and South China collision and the development of the Tan‐Lu and Honam Fault Systems, eastern Asia

    An Yin;Shangyou Nie

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Asia: A preliminary synthesis

    An Yin;An Yin

  • Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

    A. Yin;P.E. Rumelhart;R. Butler;E. Cowgill

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet

    Paul Kapp;An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;Lin Ding

  • Detrital zircon geochronology of pre-Tertiary strata in the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen

    G. Gehrels;P. Kapp;P. DeCelles;A. Pullen

  • Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Tian Shan

    A. Yin;S. Nie;P. Craig;T. M. Harrison

  • Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan plateau?

    M. A. Murphy;An Yin;T. M. Harrison;S. B. Dürr

  • The tectonic evolution of Asia

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet

    Paul Kapp;Paul Kapp;Michael A. Murphy;Michael A. Murphy;An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison

  • A tectonic model for Cenozoic igneous activities in the eastern Indo–Asian collision zone

    Jiang-Hai Wang;Jiang-Hai Wang;An Yin;T.Mark Harrison;Marty Grove

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 3): Structural geology, sedimentation, and regional tectonic reconstruction

    An Yin;Yu-Qi Dang;Min Zhang;Xuan-Hua Chen

  • Tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic blueschist-bearing Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet

    Paul Kapp;Paul Kapp;An Yin;Craig E. Manning;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison

  • Active structures of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and their relationships to earthquake distribution, contemporary strain field, and Cenozoic volcanism

    Michael Taylor;An Yin

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (Part 1): The southern Qilian Shan-Nan Shan thrust belt and northern Qaidam basin

    An Yin;Yu Qi Dang;Li Cun Wang;Wu Ming Jiang

  • Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese Thrust System, southeastern Tibet

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;F. J. Ryerson;Chen Wenji

  • Cenozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis (Namche Barwa)

    Lin Ding;Dalai Zhong;An Yin;Paul Kapp

  • Mode of Cenozoic east-west extension in Tibet suggesting a common origin of rifts in Asia during the Indo-Asian collision

    An Yin

  • Detrital-zircon geochronology of the northeastern Tibetan plateau

    George E. Gehrels;An Yin;Xiao Feng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Craig E. Manning
Craig E. Manning University of California, Los Angeles
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Paul Kapp
Paul Kapp University of Arizona
Lin Ding
Lin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
Michael A. Murphy
Michael A. Murphy University of Houston
Ralf Jaumann
Ralf Jaumann Freie Universität Berlin
Eric Cowgill
Eric Cowgill University of California, Davis
Oscar M. Lovera
Oscar M. Lovera University of California, Los Angeles

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