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Cheng-Hong Chen is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, with most publications focusing on Geophysics, alongside contributions to Geochemistry and Petrology, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Geology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, radioactivity and radon measurements, earthquake detection and analysis, and broader geological and geophysical studies.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Cheng-Hong Chen include:

  • Out of sequence faulting in the backbone range, Taiwan: Implications for thickening and exhumation processes (2022) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • An Automatic System for Continuous Monitoring and Sampling of Groundwater Geochemistry in Earthquake-Prone Regions of SW Taiwan (2021) published in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Post-orogenic thermal reset of the Pingtan-Dongshan metamorphic belt (SE China): Insights from zircon fission track and U-Pb double dating (2020) published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Buchan type metamorphism in the Pingtan-Dongshan metamorphic belt, SE China: Evidence from combined EMP monazite and U-Pb zircon ages of mica schists (2021) published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Exotic origin of Pingtan Island in the Pingtan-Dongshan Metamorphic Belt (SE China): Zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope evidences (2020) published in Lithos

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cheng-Hong Chen include:

  • Chi-Yu Lee
  • Jian-Wei Lin
  • Yuji Sano
  • Naoto Takahata
  • Tsanyao Frank Yang

Key publication venues where Cheng-Hong Chen has contributed are:

  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Lithos
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

The focus of the scientist's research involves detailed analyses of geological processes and materials, with particular attention to tectonic activity and metamorphic phenomena in East Asia. Their studies integrate geochemical methods such as zircon fission track and U-Pb dating. They also have explored the development of automated systems for environmental monitoring in earthquake-prone regions, linking geochemistry with real-time data collection.

Best Publications

  • Was there Jurassic paleo-Pacific subduction in South China?: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar dating, elemental and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic geochemistry of the Mesozoic basalts

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Chi-Yu Lee;Ryuichi Shinjo

  • Late Cenozoic basaltic volcanism around the Taiwan Strait, SE China: Product of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction during continental extension

    Sun-Lin Chung;Shen-su Sun;Kan Tu;Kan Tu;Cheng-Hong Chen;Cheng-Hong Chen

  • A double island arc between Taiwan and Luzon: consequence of ridge subduction

    Tsanyao F. Yang;Typhoon Lee;Typhoon Lee;Cheng-Hong Chen;Shih-Nan Cheng

  • Continuity of the North Qilian and North Qinling orogenic belts, Central Orogenic System of China: Evidence from newly discovered Paleozoic adakitic rocks

    Chien Yuan Tseng;Huai Jen Yang;Houng Yi Yang;Dunyi Liu

  • Two episodes of the Indosinian thermal event on the South China Block: Constraints from LA-ICPMS U–Pb zircon and electron microprobe monazite ages of the Darongshan S-type granitic suite

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Pei-Shan Hsieh;Chi-Yu Lee;Han-Wen Zhou

  • Generation of Late Cretaceous silicic rocks in SE China: Age, major element and numerical simulation constraints

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Chi-Yu Lee;Hsueh-Yu Lu;Pei-Shan Hsieh

  • Petrogenesis of the Nanling Mountains granites from South China: Constraints from systematic apatite geochemistry and whole-rock geochemical and Sr Nd isotope compositions

    Pei Shan Hsieh;Cheng Hong Chen;Huai Jen Yang;Chi Yu Lee

  • Miocene basalts in northwestern Taiwan: Evidence for EM-type mantle sources in the continental lithosphere

    Sun-Lin Chung;Sun-Lin Chung;Bor-Ming Jahn;Shu-Jen Chen;Typhoon Lee;Typhoon Lee

  • Composition and exhalation flux of gases from mud volcanoes in Taiwan

    Tsanyao Frank Yang;Gao-Hua Yeh;Ching-Chou Fu;Cheng-Chen Wang

  • Reconnaissance of soil gas composition over the buried fault and fracture zone in southern Taiwan

    Ching-Chou Fu;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Vivek Walia;Vivek Walia;Cheng-Hong Chen

  • The system Mg2SiO4-SiO2 at pressures up to 25 kilobars

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Cheng-Hong Chen;Dean C. Presnall

  • High-Mg potassic rocks from Taiwan: implications for the genesis of orogenic potassic lavas

    Sun Lin Chung;Kuo Lung Wang;Anthony J. Crawford;V. S. Kamenetsky

  • Gas compositions and helium isotopic ratios of fluid samples around Kueishantao, NE offshore Taiwan and its tectonic implications

    Tsanyao Frank Yang;Tefang Faith Lan;Hsiao-Fen Lee;Ching-Chou Fu

  • Soil–gas monitoring: A tool for fault delineation studies along Hsinhua Fault (Tainan), Southern Taiwan

    Vivek Walia;Shih Jung Lin;Ching Chou Fu;Tsanyao Frank Yang

  • Nd-Sr-O isotopic evidence for source contamination and an unusual mantle component under Luzon Arc☆

    Chen Chang-Hwa;Chen Chang-Hwa;Shieh Yuch-Ning;Shieh Yuch-Ning;Lee Typhoon;Lee Typhoon;Chen Cheng-Hong

  • Geochemical variation of soil–gas composition for fault trace and earthquake precursory studies along the Hsincheng fault in NW Taiwan

    Vivek Walia;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Wei-Li Hong;Shih-Jung Lin

  • Soil Gas Radon Spectra and Earthquakes

    L. Lynn Chyi;Thomas J. Quick;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Cheng-Hong Chen

  • Geochronology of granulite, charnockite and gneiss in the poly-metamorphosed Gaozhou Complex (Yunkai massif), South China: Emphasis on the in-situ EMP monazite dating

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Yung-Hsin Liu;Chi-Yu Lee;Hua Xiang

  • Variations of helium and radon concentrations in soil gases from an active fault zone in southern Taiwan

    Ching-Chou Fu;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Jane Du;Vivek Walia

  • Temporal variation of soil gas compositions for earthquake surveillance in Taiwan

    Vivek Walia;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Shih-Jung Lin;Arvind Kumar

  • Temporal variations of gas compositions of fumaroles in the Tatun Volcano Group, northern Taiwan

    Hsiao-Fen Lee;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Tefang Faith Lan;Cheng-Hong Chen

  • Magmatism at the onset of back-arc basin spreading in the Okinawa Trough

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  • Cretaceous fractionated I-type granitoids and metaluminous A-type granites in SE China: the Late Yanshanian post-orogenic magmatism

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Wayne Lin;Hsueh-Yu Lu;Chi-Yu Lee

  • dating, elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic geochemistry of the Mesozoic basalts

    Cheng-Hong Chen;Chi-Yu Lee;Ryuichi Shinjo

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Typhoon Lee
Typhoon Lee Academia Sinica
Wei-Li Hong
Wei-Li Hong Stockholm University
Naoto Takahata
Naoto Takahata University of Tokyo
Saulwood Lin
Saulwood Lin National Taiwan University
George S. Burr
George S. Burr National Taiwan University
Sheng-Rong Song
Sheng-Rong Song National Taiwan University
Yue-Gau Chen
Yue-Gau Chen National Taiwan University
Ryuichi Shinjo
Ryuichi Shinjo University of the Ryukyus

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