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Bo Wan is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on geophysics. Their research spans 233 publications predominantly focused on subfields such as geophysics, artificial intelligence applications in geosciences, geology, paleontology, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geophysical studies, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Bo Wan has frequently published in several recognized scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Science China Earth Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geology

The scientist collaborates extensively with other researchers, including:

  • Wenjiao Xiao
  • Liang Zhao
  • Songjian Ao
  • Zhiyong Zhang
  • Ling Chen

Bo Wan's recent notable papers include:

  • "Tethyan geodynamics," 2020, published in Acta Petrologica Sinica
  • "Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives," 2020, published in Science China Earth Sciences
  • "Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Triple-stage India-Asia collision involving arc-continent collision and subsequent two-stage continent-continent collision," 2022, published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "The youngest matrix of 234 Ma of the Kanguer accretionary mélange containing blocks of N-MORB basalts: constraints on the northward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Kanguer Ocean in the Eastern Tianshan of the Southern Altaids," 2021, published in International Journal of Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Chunming Han;Chunming Han;Wei Liu

  • Tethyan geodynamics

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  • Geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes of Early Cretaceous basalts from the Great Xinggan Range, NE China: Implications for their origin and mantle source characteristics

    Lian-chang Zhang;Xin-hua Zhou;Ji-feng Ying;Fei Wang

  • How many sutures in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Insights from East Xinjiang–West Gansu (NW China)?

    Wenjiao Xiao;Chunming Han;Wei Liu;Bo Wan

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of the Wunugetushan porphyry Cu–Mo deposit in NE china, and their geological significance

    Zhiguang Chen;Lianchang Zhang;Bo Wan;Huaying Wu

  • Large-scale porphyry-type mineralization in the Central Asian metallogenic domain: A review

    Jun Gao;Reiner Klemd;Mingtian Zhu;Xinshui Wang

  • Ages and geodynamic settings of Xilamulun Mo-Cu metallogenic belt in the northern part of the North China Craton

    Lian-chang Zhang;Hua-ying Wu;Bo Wan;Zhi-guang Chen

  • Zircon U–Pb age, Hf isotopes and geochemistry of Shuichang Algoma-type banded iron-formation, North China Craton: Constraints on the ore-forming age and tectonic setting

    Xiaojing Zhang;Lianchang Zhang;Peng Xiang;Bo Wan

  • Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives

    Wenjiao Xiao;Dongfang Song;Brian F. Windley;Jiliang Li

  • Structure, age, and tectonic development of the Huoshishan–Niujuanzi ophiolitic mélange, Beishan, southernmost Altaids

    Zhonghua Tian;Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Li'na Lin

  • Field geology, geochronology and geochemistry of mafic–ultramafic rocks from Alxa, China: Implications for Late Permian accretionary tectonics in the southern Altaids

    Jianyun Feng;Wenjiao Xiao;Brian Windley;Chunming Han

  • Cyclical one-way continental rupture-drift in the Tethyan evolution: Subduction-driven plate tectonics

    Bo Wan;Fuyuan Wu;Ling Chen;Liang Zhao

  • Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago.

    Bo Wan;Xusong Yang;Xiaobo Tian;Huaiyu Yuan;Huaiyu Yuan

  • Rb-Sr Geochronology of Chalcopyrite from the Chehugou Porphyry Mo-Cu Deposit (Northeast China) and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Hosting Granites

    Bo Wan;Bo Wan;Ernst Hegner;Lianchang Zhang;Alexander Rocholl

  • Paleoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism in the northern North China Craton and implications for the Nuna supercontinent

    Bo Wan;Brian F. Windley;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Jianyun Feng

  • Contrasting styles of mineralization in the Chinese Altai and East Junggar, NW China: implications for the accretionary history of the southern Altaids

    Bo Wan;Wenjiao Xiao;Lianchang Zhang;Brian F. Windley

  • Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope for granitoids, NW Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran: Implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic episodic magmatism during Neo-Tethyan lithospheric subduction

    Zhiyong Zhang;Zhiyong Zhang;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Weiqiang Ji;Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

  • Anatomy of composition and nature of plate convergence: Insights for alternative thoughts for terminal India-Eurasia collision

    WenJiao Xiao;SongJian Ao;Lei Yang;ChunMing Han

  • U-Pb zircon ages, field geology and geochemistry of the Kermanshah ophiolite (Iran): From continental rifting at 79Ma to oceanic core complex at ca. 36Ma in the southern Neo-Tethys

    Songjian Ao;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Morteza Khalatbari Jafari;Morteza Talebian

  • Triple-stage India-Asia collision involving arc-continent collision and subsequent two-stage continent-continent collision

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  • Geological and geochemical characteristics and ore genesis of the Keketale VMS Pb–Zn deposit, Southern Altai Metallogenic Belt, NW China

    Bo Wan;Lianchang Zhang;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Contrasting styles of mineralization in the Chinese Altai and East Junggar, NW China: implications for the accretionary history of the southern Altaids

    Bo Wan;Wenjiao Xiao;Brian Windley

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chunming Han
Chunming Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Songjian Ao
Songjian Ao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ling Chen
Ling Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brian F. Windley
Brian F. Windley University of Leicester
Ben-Xun Su
Ben-Xun Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lianchang Zhang
Lianchang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keda Cai
Keda Cai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Morteza Talebian
Morteza Talebian Geological Survey of Iran
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong

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