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Kexin Zhang is a researcher affiliated with Florida State University in the United States, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main topics of Kexin Zhang's research include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearance in these key venues:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Notable recent papers by Kexin Zhang include:

  • Qaidam Basin leaf fossils show northeastern Tibet was high, wet and cool in the early Oligocene, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Enhancement of superconducting properties in the La-Ce-H system at moderate pressures, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Thrusting, exhumation, and basin fill on the western margin of the South China block during the India-Asia collision, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Superconducting ScH3 and LuH3 at Megabar Pressures, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Cenozoic moisture fluctuations on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and association with global climatic conditions, 2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Kexin Zhang collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Bowen Song
  • Weihong He
  • Junliang Ji
  • Yadong Xu
  • Tinglu Yang

Best Publications

  • Restudy of conodont zonation and evolution across the P/T boundary at Meishan section, Changxing, Zhejiang, China

    Haishui Jiang;Xulong Lai;Genming Luo;Richard Aldridge

  • High-resolution magnetostratigraphic study of the Paleogene-Neogene strata in the Northern Qaidam Basin: Implications for the growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Junliang Ji;Kexin Zhang;Peter D. Clift;Guangsheng Zhuang

  • Geochemical evidence from bio-apatite for multiple oceanic anoxic events during Permian-Triassic transition and the link with end-Permian extinction and recovery

    Haijun Song;Haijun Song;Paul B. Wignall;Jinnan Tong;David P.G. Bond

  • Complete biotic and sedimentary records of the Permian–Triassic transition from Meishan section, South China: Ecologically assessing mass extinction and its aftermath

    Zhong Qiang Chen;Hao Yang;Mao Luo;Michael J. Benton

  • Integrated Sr isotope variations and global environmental changes through the Late Permian to early Late Triassic

    Haijun Song;Paul B. Wignall;Jinnan Tong;Huyue Song

  • Microbial lipid records of highly alkaline deposits and enhanced aridity associated with significant uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the Late Miocene

    Shucheng Xie;Shucheng Xie;Richard D. Pancost;Lin Chen;Richard P. Evershed

  • Evidence for northeastern Tibetan Plateau uplift between 25 and 20 Ma in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, Northwestern China

    Guoqiao Xiao;Guoqiao Xiao;Zhengtang Guo;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Houyuan Lu

  • Paleogene-Neogene stratigraphic realm and sedimentary sequence of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and their response to uplift of the plateau

    KeXin Zhang;GuoCan Wang;JunLiang Ji;ManSheng Luo

  • A refined succession of Changhsingian and Griesbachian neogondolellid conodonts from the Meishan section, candidate of the global stratotype section and point of the Permian–Triassic boundary

    Shilong Mei;Kexin Zhang;Bruce R Wardlaw

  • Spatio-temporal framework of tectonic uplift stages of the Tibetan Plateau in Cenozoic

    GuoCan Wang;Kai Cao;KeXin Zhang;An Wang

  • Exhumation history of the West Kunlun Mountains, northwestern Tibet: Evidence for a long-lived, rejuvenated orogen

    Kai Cao;Guo-Can Wang;Matthias Bernet;Peter van der Beek

  • Two episodes of environmental change at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the GSSP section Meishan

    Hongfu Yin;Shucheng Xie;Genming Luo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir revealed by zircon and apatite fission-track thermochronology

    Kai Cao;Guo-Can Wang;Peter van der Beek;Matthias Bernet

  • Spatial and glacial-interglacial variations in provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Guoqiao Xiao;Keqing Zong;Gaojun Li;Zhaochu Hu

  • The middle Eocene to early Miocene integrated sedimentary record in the Qaidam Basin and its implications for paleoclimate and early Tibetan Plateau uplift

    Bowen Song;Kexin Zhang;Jingfang Lu;Chaowen Wang

  • Early Triassic conodont–palynological biostratigraphy of the Meishan D Section in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, South China

    Kexin Zhang;Jinnan Tong;G.R. Shi;G.R. Shi;Xulong Lai

  • Qaidam Basin leaf fossils show northeastern Tibet was high, wet and cool in the early Oligocene

    Bowen Song;Robert A. Spicer;Robert A. Spicer;Kexin Zhang;Junliang Ji

  • Oligocene-Early Miocene Topographic Relief Generation of Southeastern Tibet Triggered by Thrusting

    Kai Cao;Guocan Wang;Philippe Hervé Leloup;Gweltaz Mahéo

  • Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of differential uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    KeXin Zhang;GuoCan Wang;Kai Cao;Chao Liu

  • Timing and rate of exhumation along the Litang fault system, implication for fault reorganization in Southeast Tibet

    Yuan-Ze Zhang;Anne Replumaz;Anne Replumaz;Guo-Can Wang;Philippe Hervé Leloup

  • Palaeoecology of the conodonts Hindeodus and Clarkina during the Permian–Triassic transitional period

    Xulong Lai;Xulong Lai;Paul Wignall;Kexin Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhaohui Li
Zhaohui Li Xiangtan University
Guang Rong Shi
Guang Rong Shi University of Wollongong
Hanlie Hong
Hanlie Hong China University of Geosciences
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Xulong Lai
Xulong Lai China University of Geosciences
Matthias Bernet
Matthias Bernet Grenoble Alpes University
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Jinnan Tong
Jinnan Tong China University of Geosciences
Philippe Hervé Leloup
Philippe Hervé Leloup Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall University of Leeds

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