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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Overview

Brian F. Windley is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science, with significant contributions in various subfields, particularly geophysics and artificial intelligence. Additional subfields of study include atmospheric science, paleontology, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work covers multiple topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and elemental analysis, as well as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Brian F. Windley has contributed numerous publications, with recent papers including:

  • Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean (2020), published in Precambrian Research
  • Accretionary processes and metallogenesis of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Advances and perspectives (2020), published in Science China Earth Sciences
  • Rollback, scissor-like closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and formation of an orocline: magmatic migration based on a large archive of age data (2021), published in National Science Review
  • Intracontinental deformation of the Tianshan Orogen in response to India-Asia collision (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Permanent closure of the Tethyan Seaway in the northwestern Iranian Plateau driven by cyclic sea-level fluctuations in the late Middle Miocene (2020), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Wenjiao Xiao
  • Songjian Ao
  • Miao Sang
  • Dongfang Song
  • Ji'en Zhang

Brian F. Windley has published extensively in venues such as Geological Journal, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Earth-Science Reviews, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, and Tectonics.

Among professional recognitions, Brian F. Windley was named a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Brian F. Windley;Dmitriy Alexeiev;Wenjiao Xiao;Alfred Kröner

  • Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Jie Hao;Mingguo Zhai

  • Book Review: The continental crust: its composition and evolution. S.R. Taylor and S.M. McLennan. Blackwell, 1985. xv + 312 pp., £16.80, ISBN 0-632-01148-3

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  • A Tale of Amalgamation of Three Permo-Triassic Collage Systems in Central Asia: Oroclines, Sutures, and Terminal Accretion

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Shu Sun;Jiliang Li

  • Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional tectonics of the Chinese Tianshan orogenic collage

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Mark B. Allen;Chunming Han

  • Accretionary orogens through Earth history

    Peter A. Cawood;Alfred Kröner;William Joseph Collins;Timothy M. Kusky

  • Paleozoic accretion and Cenozoic redeformation of the Chinese Tien Shan Range, central Asia

    B. F. Windley;M. B. Allen;C. Zhang;Z. Y. Zhao

  • A new terrane subdivision for Mongolia: implications for the Phanerozoic crustal growth of Central Asia

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  • The closing of Tethys and the tectonics of the Himalaya

    M. P. Searle;B. F. Windley;M. P. Coward;D.J.W. Cooper

  • Palaeozoic accretionary and convergent tectonics of the southern Altaids: implications for the growth of Central Asia

    Wengjiao Xiao;B.F. Windley;G. Badarch;S. Sun

  • Palaeozoic collisional tectonics and magmatism of the Chinese Tien Shan, central Asia

    M.B. Allen;B.F. Windley;Chi Zhang

  • The Altaids of Central Asia: A tectonic and evolutionary innovative review

    Caroline Wilhem;Brian F. Windley;Gérard M. Stampfli

  • Time scale of an early to mid-Paleozoic orogenic cycle of the long-lived Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia of China: Implications for continental growth

    Ping Jian;Dunyi Liu;Alfred Kröner;Brian F. Windley

  • Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic Geology of the Altai Orogen, NW China: New Zircon Age Data and Tectonic Evolution

    Brian F. Windley;Alfred Kröner;Jinghui Guo;Guosheng Qu

  • Carbonic metamorphism, granulites and crustal growth

    R. C. Newton;J. V. Smith;B. F. Windley

  • Paleozoic multiple subduction-accretion processes of the southern Altaids

    W J Xiao;B F Windley;C Yuan;M Sun

  • Accretionary growth and crust formation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and comparison with the Arabian-Nubian shield

    A. Kröner;B.F. Windley;G. Badarch;O. Tomurtogoo

  • Phanerozoic continental growth in Central Asia

    Bor-ming Jahn;Brian Windley;Boris Natal'in;Nick Dobretsov

  • Evolution of a Permian intraoceanic arc-trench system in the Solonker suture zone, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, China and Mongolia

    Ping Jian;Dunyi Liu;Alfred Kröner;Brian F. Windley

  • 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

  • Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional processes of the Beishan orogenic collage

    W. J. Xiao;Q. G. Mao;B. F. Windley;C. M. Han

  • Early Paleozoic to Devonian multiple-accretionary model for the Qilian Shan, NW China

    Wenjiao Xiao;Brian F. Windley;Yong Yong;Zhen Yan

  • Collision tectonics in the NW Himalayas

    Michael P. Coward;David C. Rex;M. Asif Khan;Brian F. Windley

  • Zircon age and occurrence of the Adaatsag ophiolite and Muron shear zone, central Mongolia: constraints on the evolution of the Mongol–Okhotsk ocean, suture and orogen

    O. Tomurtogoo;B.F. Windley;A. Kröner;G. Badarch

  • Archean Plate Tectonics: Constraints and Inferences

    Norman H. Sleep;Brian F. Windley

  • Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

    T.M. Kusky;A. Polat;A. Polat;B.F. Windley;B.F. Windley;K.C. Burke

  • UHT sapphirine granulite metamorphism at 1.93–1.92Ga caused by gabbronorite intrusions: Implications for tectonic evolution of the northern margin of the North China Craton

    JingHui Guo;Peng Peng;Yi Chen;ShuJuan Jiao

  • K-Ar and Ar-Ar geochronology of the Himalayan collision in NW Pakistan: Constraints on the timing of suturing, deformation, metamorphism and uplift

    Peter J. Treloar;D. C. Rex;P. G. Guise;M. P. Coward

  • The Tectonic Evolution of Asia An Yin & Mark Harrison (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, 666 pp., ISBN 0-521-48049 3, Hardback, £125.00

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Frequent Co-Authors

Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Songjian Ao
Songjian Ao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bo Wan
Bo Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chunming Han
Chunming Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jimin Sun
Jimin Sun Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ali Polat
Ali Polat University of Windsor
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Takafumi Hirata
Takafumi Hirata University of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Tsuyoshi Komiya University of Tokyo

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