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Keda Cai is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, contributing research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields, with a significant focus on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Biomedical Engineering, and Paleontology.

The research topics they cover include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

The following papers illustrate some of the recent contributions made by Keda Cai in their field:

  • Adakite generation as a result of fluid-fluxed melting at normal lower crustal pressures (2022) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Long-lived seamount subduction in ancient orogens: Evidence from the Paleozoic South Tianshan (2020) published in Geology
  • Tectonic evolution of the Chinese Tianshan Orogen from subduction to arc-continent collision: Insight from polyphase deformation along the Gangou section, Central Asia (2020) published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Remnants of a Middle Triassic island arc on western margin of South China Block: Evidence for bipolar subduction of the Paleotethyan Ailaoshan Ocean (2020) published in Lithos
  • Episodic Long-Term Exhumation of the Tianshan Orogenic Belt: New Insights From Multiple Low-Temperature Thermochronometers (2023) published in Tectonics

The most frequent co-authors working with Keda Cai include Min Sun, Xiangsong Wang, Xiaoping Xia, Guochun Zhao, and Bo Wan. This collaboration network indicates active partnership within a group of researchers focusing on related fields.

Keda Cai's articles have been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Lithos
  • Tectonics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Gondwana Research
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Their academic output emphasizes the integration of geological and geochemical methods with a focus on tectonics and the evolution of orogenic belts. The research spans both field observations and analytical studies, contributing to understanding crustal processes and tectonic evolution.

Best Publications

  • Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    A. Kröner;V. Kovach;E. Belousova;E. Hegner

  • Detrital zircon age and Hf isotopic studies for metasedimentary rocks from the Chinese Altai: Implications for the Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Late Carboniferous high-Mg dioritic dikes in Western Junggar, NW China: Geochemical features, petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Jiyuan Yin;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Xiaoping Long

  • Detrital zircon ages and Hf isotopes of the early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, NW China: New constrains on depositional age, provenance and tectonic evolution

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Early Paleozoic sedimentary record of the Chinese Altai: Implications for its tectonic evolution

    Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Early Paleozoic ridge subduction in the Chinese Altai: Insight from the abrupt change in zircon Hf isotopic compositions

    Min Sun;XiaoPing Long;XiaoPing Long;KeDa Cai;YingDe Jiang

  • Prolonged magmatism, juvenile nature and tectonic evolution of the Chinese Altai, NW China: Evidence from zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic study of Paleozoic granitoids

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic significance of peraluminous granites from the Chinese Altai, NW China

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Geochemistry and Nd isotopic composition of the Early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, Central Asia: Evidence for a northward-derived mafic source and insight into Nd model ages in accretionary orogen

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Geochronological and geochemical study of mafic dykes from the northwest Chinese Altai: Implications for petrogenesis and tectonic evolution

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Magmatic evolution of the Tuwu–Yandong porphyry Cu belt, NW China: Constraints from geochronology, geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes

    Bing Xiao;Huayong Chen;Pete Hollings;Jinsheng Han

  • Late Silurian–early Devonian adakitic granodiorite, A-type and I-type granites in NW Junggar, NW China: Partial melting of mafic lower crust and implications for slab roll-back

    Jiyuan Yin;Wen Chen;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Chao Yuan

  • Carboniferous mantle-derived felsic intrusion in the Chinese Altai, NW China: Implications for geodynamic change of the accretionary orogenic belt

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Late Paleozoic closure of the Ob-Zaisan Ocean along the Irtysh shear zone (NW China): Implications for arc amalgamation and oroclinal bending in the Central Asian orogenic belt

    Pengfei Li;Min Sun;Gideon Rosenbaum;Fred Jourdan

  • Keketuohai mafic–ultramafic complex in the Chinese Altai, NW China: Petrogenesis and geodynamic significance

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Geological framework and Paleozoic tectonic history of the Chinese Altai, NW China: A review

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Xiaoping Long

  • Geochemical study of the Cambrian–Ordovician meta-sedimentary rocks from the northern Altai-Mongolian terrane, northwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications on the provenance and tectonic setting

    Ming Chen;Min Sun;Keda Cai;Mikhail M. Buslov;Mikhail M. Buslov

  • Geometry, kinematics and tectonic models of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Pengfei Li;Pengfei Li;Min Sun;Gideon Rosenbaum;Chao Yuan

  • Genesis of Carboniferous volcanic rocks in the eastern Junggar:constraints on the closure of the Junggar Ocean.

    XP Long;M Sun;C Yuan;WJ Xiao

  • Structural evolution of the Irtysh Shear Zone (northwestern China) and implications for the amalgamation of arc systems in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Pengfei Li;Min Sun;Gideon Rosenbaum;Keda Cai

  • Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of the Paleozoic volcanic rocks in the northwestern Chinese Altai: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Yujing Wang;Chao Yuan;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Sun
Min Sun University of Hong Kong
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chao Yuan
Chao Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Long
Xiaoping Long Northwest University
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong
Bo Wan
Bo Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Xia
Xiaoping Xia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gideon Rosenbaum
Gideon Rosenbaum University of Queensland
Huayong Chen
Huayong Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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