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Overview

Qing-Ren Meng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics. Their research spans several subfields, including geophysics, paleontology, geology, artificial intelligence, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Qing-Ren Meng has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include National Science Review, Geophysical Journal International, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version).

Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • "Cretaceous basin evolution in northeast Asia: tectonic responses to the paleo-Pacific plate subduction" (2021), National Science Review
  • "Spatiotemporal evolution of the Jehol Biota: Responses to the North China craton destruction in the Early Cretaceous" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Destruction of the North China Craton and its influence on surface geology and terrestrial biotas" (2020), Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version)
  • "Late Triassic uplift, magmatism and extension of the northern North China block: Mantle signatures in the surface" (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Revisiting the mechanisms of mid-Tertiary uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau" (2023), National Science Review

Qing-Ren Meng collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Liang Duan, Guo-Li Wu, Rixiang Zhu, Zhonghe Zhou, and Honghong Wei.

Best Publications

  • Geologic framework and tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogen, central China

    Qing-Ren Meng;Guo-Wei Zhang

  • Timing of collision of the North and South China blocks: Controversy and reconciliation

    Qing-Ren Meng;Guo-Wei Zhang

  • What drove late Mesozoic extension of the northern China Mongolia tract

    Qing-Ren Meng

  • Mesozoic sedimentary evolution of the northwest Sichuan basin: Implication for continued clockwise rotation of the South China block

    Qing-Ren Meng;Erchie Wang;Jian-Min Hu

  • Decratonic gold deposits

    RiXiang Zhu;HongRui Fan;JianWei Li;QingRen Meng

  • Tectonics of the late Mesozoic wide extensional basin system in the China–Mongolia border region

    Qing-Ren Meng;Jian-Min Hu;Jiu-Qiang Jin;Yan Zhang

  • Late Paleoproterozoic–Neoproterozoic multi-rifting events in the North China Craton and their geological significance: A study advance and review

    Mingguo Zhai;Mingguo Zhai;Bo Hu;Taiping Zhao;Peng Peng

  • Stratigraphic and sedimentary records of the rift to drift evolution of the northern North China craton at the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic transition

    Qing-Ren Meng;Hong-Hong Wei;Yong-Qiang Qu;Shou-Xian Ma

  • Time range of Mesozoic tectonic regime inversion in eastern North China Block

    Zhai Mingguo;Zhu Rixiang;Liu Jianming;Meng Qingren

  • Mesozoic large-scale lateral extrusion, rotation, and uplift of the Tongbai-Dabie Shan belt in east China

    Erchie Wang;Qingren Meng;B. Clark Burchfiel;Guowei Zhang

  • Craton destruction and related resources

    Rixiang Zhu;Hongfu Zhang;Guang Zhu;Qingren Meng

  • Tectonic evolution of early Mesozoic sedimentary basins in the North China block

    Qing-Ren Meng;Guo-Li Wu;Long-Gang Fan;Hong-Hong Wei

  • Tracing the position of the South China block in Gondwana: U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes of Devonian detrital zircons

    Liang Duan;Qing-Ren Meng;Cheng-Li Zhang;Xiao-Ming Liu

  • Block rotation: Tectonic response of the Sichuan basin to the southeastward growth of the Tibetan plateau along the Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault

    Erchie Wang;Kai Meng;Zhe Su;Qingren Meng

  • Did the Altyn Tagh fault extend beyond the Tibetan Plateau

    Brian J. Darby;Bradley D. Ritts;Yongjun Yue;Qingren Meng

  • Structural and sedimentary evolution of the southern Songliao Basin, northeast China, and implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity

    Hong-Hong Wei;Jun-Lai Liu;Qing-Ren Meng

  • Early Mesozoic tectonic settings of the northern North China craton

    Qing-Ren Meng;Hong-Hong Wei;Guo-Li Wu;Liang Duan

  • Late Cenozoic denudation by large-magnitude landslides in the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau

    Qing-Ren Meng;Qing-Ren Meng;Jian-Min Hu;Erchie Wang;Hong-Jie Qu

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Longmenshan fault belt

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  • Cenozoic tectonic development of the Qaidam Basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Qing-Ren Meng;Xiang Fang

  • Provenance of Jurassic sediments in the Hefei Basin, east-central China and the contribution of high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Dabie Shan

    Renwei Li;Yusheng Wan;Zhenyu Cheng;Jianxiong Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Mingguo Zhai
Mingguo Zhai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rixiang Zhu
Rixiang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alex Pullen
Alex Pullen Clemson University
Peng Peng
Peng Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guowei Zhang
Guowei Zhang Northwest University
Lin Ding
Lin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bradley D. Ritts
Bradley D. Ritts University of Idaho
Carmala N. Garzione
Carmala N. Garzione University of Arizona
Nicholas Christie-Blick
Nicholas Christie-Blick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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