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Overview

Jian-Wei Zi is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Paleontology. Their research is extensively centered on geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geological and geophysical studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

The scientist has a significant publication record, with a notable presence in journals such as Precambrian Research, Geology, Economic Geology, Earth-Science Reviews, and Science Advances. Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Jian-Wei Zi include:

  • IN SITU DATING OF HYDROTHERMAL MONAZITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GEODYNAMIC CONTROLS ON ORE FORMATION IN THE JIAODONG GOLD PROVINCE, EASTERN CHINA (2020, Economic Geology)
  • Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Reexamination of 2.5-Ga "whiff" of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE (2022, Science Advances)
  • Petrogenesis of Archean TTGs and potassic granites in the southern Yangtze Block: Constraints on the early formation of the Yangtze Block (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • Texturally Controlled U-Th-Pb Monazite Geochronology Reveals Paleoproterozoic UHT Metamorphic Evolution in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton (2020, Journal of Petrology)

Frequent co-authors of Jian-Wei Zi include Birger Rasmussen, Guichun Liu, Qinglai Feng, Peter A. Cawood, and Tianyu Zhao, reflecting collaboration across multiple projects and research areas.

Their publications are heavily concentrated in venues that address the geological sciences and earth system processes, with Precambrian Research being the most frequent publication venue. This reflects a strong emphasis on early Earth processes and metamorphic evolution.

Main research topics encompass:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Best Publications

  • IN SITU DATING OF HYDROTHERMAL MONAZITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GEODYNAMIC CONTROLS ON ORE FORMATION IN THE JIAODONG GOLD PROVINCE, EASTERN CHINA

    Jun Deng;Kun-Feng Qiu;Kun-Feng Qiu;Qing-Fei Wang;Richard Goldfarb;Richard Goldfarb

  • Triassic collision in the Paleo-Tethys Ocean constrained by volcanic activity in SW China

    Jian-Wei Zi;Jian-Wei Zi;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Wei-Ming Fan;Yue-Jun Wang

  • Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

    Peter A. Cawood;Wei Wang;Tianyu Zhao;Yajun Xu

  • Generation of Early Indosinian enriched mantle-derived granitoid pluton in the Sanjiang Orogen (SW China) in response to closure of the Paleo-Tethys

    Jian-Wei Zi;Peter A. Cawood;Wei-Ming Fan;Eric Tohver

  • Late Permian-Triassic magmatic evolution in the Jinshajiang orogenic belt, SW China and implications for orogenic processes following closure of the Paleo-Tethys

    Jian Wei Zi;Jian Wei Zi;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Wei Ming Fan;Eric Tohver

  • Constraining subduction-collision processes of the Paleo-Tethys along the Changning–Menglian Suture: New zircon U-Pb ages and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf–O isotopes of the Lincang Batholith

    Jun Deng;Changming Wang;Changming Wang;Jian-Wei Zi;Rui Xia

  • Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of middle Paleozoic Kwangsian massive granites in the eastern South China Block

    Feifei Zhang;Feifei Zhang;Yuejun Wang;Aimei Zhang;Weiming Fan

  • Contrasting rift and subduction-related plagiogranites in the Jinshajiang ophiolitic mélange, southwest China, and implications for the Paleo-Tethys

    Jian Wei Zi;Jian Wei Zi;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Wei Ming Fan;Yue jun Wang

  • Paleotethyan subduction process revealed from Triassic blueschists in the Lancang tectonic belt of Southwest China

    Weiming Fan;Weiming Fan;Yuejung Wang;Yanhua Zhang;Yuzhi Zhang

  • Reexamination of 2.5-Ga “whiff” of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE

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  • In situ U-Pb geochronology of xenotime and monazite from the Abra polymetallic deposit in the Capricorn Orogen, Australia: Dating hydrothermal mineralization and fluid flow in a long-lived crustal structure

    Jian-Wei Zi;Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling;Janet R. Muhling;Ian R. Fletcher

  • Post-collisional potassic magmatism in the Southern Awulale Mountain, western Tianshan Orogen: Petrogenetic and tectonic implications

    Linhua Sun;Yuejun Wang;Weiming Fan;Jianwei Zi

  • Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic K-rich granites in the Phan Si Pan Complex, north Vietnam: Constraints on the early crustal evolution of the Yangtze Block

    Tianyu Zhao;Tianyu Zhao;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Kai Wang;Jian Wei Zi;Jian Wei Zi

  • Petrogenesis of Archean TTGs and potassic granites in the southern Yangtze Block: Constraints on the early formation of the Yangtze Block

    Tianyu Zhao;Tianyu Zhao;Jing Li;Guichun Liu;Peter A. Cawood

  • Cambrian intra–oceanic arc trondhjemite and tonalite in the Tam Ky–Phuoc Son Suture Zone, central Vietnam: Implications for the early Paleozoic assembly of the Indochina Block

    Quyen Minh Nguyen;Quyen Minh Nguyen;Qinglai Feng;Jian-Wei Zi;Jian-Wei Zi;Tianyu Zhao

  • Late Triassic post-collisional granites related to Paleotethyan evolution in SE Thailand: Geochronological and geochemical constraints

    Xin Qian;Xin Qian;Qinglai Feng;Yuejun Wang;Tianyu Zhao

  • In situ U-Pb and geochemical evidence for ancient Pb-loss during hydrothermal alteration producing apparent young concordant zircon dates in older tuffs

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  • U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Dashibao Basalts in the Songpan-Ganzi Terrane, SW China, with implications for the age of Emeishan volcanism

    Jian Wei Zi;Wei Ming Fan;Yue jun Wang;Peter A. Cawood

  • Early Paleoproterozoic magmatism in the Yangtze Block : evidence from zircon U-Pb ages, Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and geochemistry of ca. 2.3 Ga and 2.1 Ga granitic rocks in the Phan Si Pan Complex, north Vietnam

    Tianyu Zhao;Tianyu Zhao;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Jian Wei Zi;Jian Wei Zi;Kai Wang

  • Using in situ SHRIMP U-Pb monazite and xenotime geochronology to determine the age of orogenic gold mineralization: An example from the Paulsens Mine, Southern Pilbara Craton

    I. O.H. Fielding;S. P. Johnson;J. W. Zi;B. Rasmussen

  • Texturally Controlled U–Th–Pb Monazite Geochronology Reveals Paleoproterozoic UHT Metamorphic Evolution in the Khondalite Belt, North China Craton

    Shujuan Jiao;Shujuan Jiao;Ian C W Fitzsimons;Jian-Wei Zi;Jian-Wei Zi;Noreen J Evans

  • Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Late-Triassic high ɛNd(t)-ɛHf(t) granites in the Ailaoshan tectonic zone (SW China)

    HuiChuan Liu;HuiChuan Liu;HuiChuan Liu;YueJun Wang;YueJun Wang;WeiMing Fan;JianWei Zi

  • Newly identified 1.89 Ga mafic dyke swarm in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia suggests a connection with India

    J. Camilla Stark;Xuan-Ce Wang;Steven W. Denyszyn;Zheng-Xiang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen University of Western Australia
Janet R. Muhling
Janet R. Muhling University of Western Australia
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Yuejun Wang
Yuejun Wang Sun Yat-sen University
Bryan Krapež
Bryan Krapež Guilin University of Technology
Ian R. Fletcher
Ian R. Fletcher Curtin University
Weiming Fan
Weiming Fan University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia
Qinglai Feng
Qinglai Feng China University of Geosciences
Simon A. Wilde
Simon A. Wilde Curtin University

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