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Kui-Dong Zhao is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics, artificial intelligence applications, geochemistry and petrology, paleontology, and atmospheric science.

Their research spans several specialized subfields, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, mineralogy and gemology studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kui-Dong Zhao include:

  • Shao-Yong Jiang
  • Wei Chen
  • Martin R. Palmer
  • Qian Li
  • Amjad Hussain

The scientist has published in a number of venues, with multiple contributions in the following journals:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Lithos
  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Significance of hydrothermal reworking for REE mineralization associated with carbonatite: Constraints from in situ trace element and C-Sr isotope study of calcite and apatite from the Miaoya carbonatite complex (China)" (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • "Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralization Processes at the Yidong Tin Deposit, South China: Insights from In Situ Chemical and Boron Isotope Changes of Tourmaline" (2021, Economic Geology)
  • "Apatite texture and trace element chemistry of carbonatite-related REE deposits in China: Implications for petrogenesis" (2021, Lithos)
  • "Chemical and boron isotopic compositions of tourmaline at the Dachang Sn-polymetallic ore district in South China: Constraints on the origin and evolution of hydrothermal fluids" (2021, Mineralium Deposita)
  • "Timing and tectonic setting of tin mineralization in southern Myanmar: constraints from cassiterite and wolframite U-Pb ages" (2021, Mineralium Deposita)

Best Publications

  • Middle to late Jurassic felsic and mafic magmatism in southern Hunan province, southeast China: Implications for a continental arc to rifting

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Bao-Zhang Dai;Shi-Yong Liao

  • Lithospheric and asthenospheric sources of lamprophyres in the Jiaodong Peninsula: A consequence of rapid lithospheric thinning beneath the North China Craton?

    Liang Ma;Shao-Yong Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Albrecht W. Hofmann;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Extreme enrichment of polymetallic Ni–Mo–PGE–Au in Lower Cambrian black shales of South China: An Os isotope and PGE geochemical investigation

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Jing-Hong Yang;Hong-Fei Ling;Yong-Quan Chen

  • Mobility of high field strength elements (HFSE) in magmatic-, metamorphic-, and submarine-hydrothermal systems

    Shao Yong Jiang;Ru Cheng Wang;Xi Sheng Xu;Kui Dong Zhao

  • Contrasting origins of late Mesozoic adakitic granitoids from the northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, east China: implications for crustal thickening to delamination

    Ming-Lan Hou;Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Hong-Fei Ling

  • Mineral chemistry, trace elements and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry and petrogenesis of Cailing and Furong granites and mafic enclaves from the Qitianling batholith in the Shi-Hang zone, South China

    Kui-Dong Zhao;Shao-Yong Jiang;Shui-Yuan Yang;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic significance of two Early Cretaceous A-type granites in the Gan-Hang Belt, Southeast China

    Shui-Yuan Yang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao;Yao-Hui Jiang

  • Geochemistry of Early Cretaceous calc-alkaline lamprophyres in the Jiaodong Peninsula: Implication for lithospheric evolution of the eastern North China Craton

    Liang Ma;Shao-Yong Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Ming-Lan Hou;Bao-Zhang Dai

  • Late Cretaceous granites from the giant Dulong Sn-polymetallic ore district in Yunnan Province, South China: Geochronology, geochemistry, mineral chemistry and Nd–Hf isotopic compositions

    Bin Xu;Shao-Yong Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Liang Ma

  • Petrogenesis of Late Jurassic Qianlishan granites and mafic dykes, Southeast China: implications for a back-arc extension setting

    Yao-Hui Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao;Hong-Fei Ling

  • Zircon U–Pb chronology and elemental and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry of two Triassic A-type granites in South China: Implication for petrogenesis and Indosinian transtensional tectonism

    Kui-Dong Zhao;Shao-Yong Jiang;Wei-Feng Chen;Pei-Rong Chen

  • Petrogenesis of the Middle Jurassic Yinshan volcanic-intrusive complex, SE China: Implications for tectonic evolution and Cu-Au mineralization

    Guo-Guang Wang;Pei Ni;Kui-Dong Zhao;Xiao-Lei Wang

  • Geochemical, zircon U–Pb dating and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the age and petrogenesis of an Early Cretaceous volcanic-intrusive complex at Xiangshan, Southeast China

    Shui-Yuan Yang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Yao-Hui Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao

  • Chemical and boron isotopic variations of tourmaline in the Hnilec granite-related hydrothermal system, Slovakia: Constraints on magmatic and metamorphic fluid evolution

    Shao Yong Jiang;Martin Radvanec;Eizo Nakamura;Martin Palmer

  • Geochronology, geochemistry and Hf–Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of Huziyan mafic xenoliths, southern Hunan Province, South China: Petrogenesis and implications for lower crust evolution

    Bao-Zhang Dai;Shao-Yong Jiang;Yao-Hui Jiang;Kui-Dong Zhao

  • The link between subduction-modified lithosphere and the giant Dexing porphyry copper deposit, South China: Constraints from high-Mg adakitic rocks

    Guo-Guang Wang;Pei Ni;Jing Yao;Xiao-Lei Wang

  • Mapping of Sulfur Isotopes and Trace Elements in Sulfides by LA-(MC)-ICP-MS: Potential Analytical Problems, Improvements and Implications

    Zhi-Yong Zhu;Nigel J. Cook;Tao Yang;Cristiana L. Ciobanu

  • Geology, fluid inclusion, and isotope constraints on ore genesis of the Neoproterozoic Jinshan orogenic gold deposit, South China

    C. Zhao;P. Ni;G.-G. Wang;J.-Y. Ding

  • Highly fractionated Jurassic I-type granites and related tungsten mineralization in the Shirenzhang deposit, northern Guangdong, South China: Evidence from cassiterite and zircon U-Pb ages, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes

    Hai Jiang;Shao-Yong Jiang;Wen-Qian Li;Kui-Dong Zhao

  • Zircon U–Pb dating, trace element and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry of Paleozoic granites in the Miao’ershan–Yuechengling batholith, South China: Implication for petrogenesis and tectonic–magmatic evolution

    Kui-Dong Zhao;Shao-Yong Jiang;Tao Sun;Wei-Feng Chen

  • Zircon U-Pb geochronological framework of Qitianling granite batholith, middle part of Nanling Range, South China

    JinChu Zhu;RuCheng Wang;PeiHua Zhang;CaiFu Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Shao-Yong Jiang
Shao-Yong Jiang China University of Geosciences
Yao-Hui Jiang
Yao-Hui Jiang Nanjing University
Hong-Fei Ling
Hong-Fei Ling Nanjing University
Pei Ni
Pei Ni Nanjing University
Martin R. Palmer
Martin R. Palmer University of Southampton
Xiumian Hu
Xiumian Hu Nanjing University
Rucheng Wang
Rucheng Wang Nanjing University
Dunyi Liu
Dunyi Liu Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Eizo Nakamura
Eizo Nakamura Okayama University
Yan-Jing Chen
Yan-Jing Chen Peking University

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