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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
3822
World Ranking
8066
National Ranking
12

Best Publications

  • Fluid immiscibility and gold deposition in the Xincheng deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, China: A fluid inclusion study

    Zhong-Liang Wang;Li-Qiang Yang;Lin-Nan Guo;Erin Marsh

  • Genesis of leucogranite by prolonged fractional crystallization: A case study of the Mufushan complex, South China

    Lian-Xun Wang;Lian-Xun Wang;Chang-Qian Ma;Chao Zhang;Jin-Yang Zhang

  • Timing of eclogite facies metamorphism in the North Qinling by U-Pb and Lu-Hf geochronology

    Hao Cheng;Chao Zhang;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Xianhua Li

  • A new clinopyroxene thermobarometer for mafic to intermediate magmatic systems

    Xudong Wang;Tong Hou;Tong Hou;Meng Wang;Chao Zhang

  • Constraints from experimental melting of amphibolite on the depth of formation of garnet-rich restites, and implications for models of Early Archean crustal growth

    Chao Zhang;Francois Holtz;Jürgen Koepke;Paul Eric Wolff

  • Tracing the evolution and distribution of F and Cl in plutonic systems from volatile-bearing minerals: a case study from the Liujiawa pluton (Dabie orogen, China)

    Chao Zhang;Chao Zhang;Francois Holtz;Changqian Ma;Paul Eric Wolff

  • Calculating biotite formula from electron microprobe analysis data using a machine learning method based on principal components regression

    Xiaoyan Li;Xiaoyan Li;Chao Zhang;Chao Zhang;Harald Behrens;Francois Holtz

  • Timing and genesis of the adakitic and shoshonitic intrusions in the Laoniushan complex, southern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for post-collisional magmatism associated with the Qinling Orogen

    Li-Xue Ding;Chang-Qian Ma;Jian-Wei Li;Paul T. Robinson

  • Halogen geochemistry of I- and A-type granites from Jiuhuashan region (South China): Insights into the elevated fluorine in A-type granite

    Lian-Xun Wang;Chang-Qian Ma;Chao Zhang;Yu-Xiang Zhu

  • Geochronology of the transition of eclogite to amphibolite facies metamorphism in the North Qinling orogen of central China

    Hao Cheng;Chao Zhang;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Xianhua Li

  • “Origin of high-Mg adakitic magmatic enclaves from the Meichuan pluton, southern Dabie orogen (central China): Implications for delamination of the lower continental crust and melt-mantle interaction”—Reply

    Chao Zhang;Chao Zhang;Changqian Ma;Francois Holtz

  • Mid-Neoproterozoic arc magmatism in the northeastern margin of the Indochina block, SW China: Geochronological and petrogenetic constraints and implications for Gondwana assembly

    Xuexiang Qi;M. Santosh;M. Santosh;Luhua Zhu;Yuhao Zhao

  • Late Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Great Xing'an Range, NE China: Evidence from whole-rock geochemistry, and zircon U Pb ages and Hf isotopes from volcanic rocks

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  • Zircon U–Pb and garnet Lu–Hf geochronology of eclogites from the Lhasa Block, Tibet

    Hao Cheng;Chao Zhang;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Honghua Lu

  • New Lu–Hf geochronology constrains the onset of continental subduction in the Dabie orogen

    Hao Cheng;Chao Zhang;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Yuanbao Wu

  • Isotopic Compositions (Li‐B‐Si‐O‐Mg‐Sr‐Nd‐Hf‐Pb) and Fe 2+ /ΣFe Ratios of Three Synthetic Andesite Glass Reference Materials (ARM‐1, ARM‐2, ARM‐3)

    Shitou Wu;Yueheng Yang;Klaus Peter Jochum;Rolf L. Romer

  • Zircon U–Pb age, Hf isotopic compositions and geochemistry of the Silurian Fengdingshan I-type granite Pluton and Taoyuan mafic–felsic Complex at the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block

    Yufang Zhong;Changqian Ma;Chao Zhang;Chao Zhang;Shiming Wang

  • Ti-in-quartz thermobarometry and TiO2 solubility in rhyolitic melts: New experiments and parametrization

    Chao Zhang;Xiaoyan Li;Renat R. Almeev;Ingo Horn

  • Machine Learning Thermobarometry for Biotite‐Bearing Magmas

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  • A Practical Method for Accurate Measurement of Trace Level Fluorine in Mg- and Fe-Bearing Minerals and Glasses Using Electron Probe Microanalysis

    Chao Zhang;Jürgen Koepke;Lian-Xun Wang;Paul E. Wolff

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