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Ren-Xu Chen is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China in China. Their research spans primarily the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work addresses several key topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Ren-Xu Chen has published extensively in numerous scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Lithos
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Science China Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ren-Xu Chen are:

  • "Tectonic evolution of convergent plate margins and its geological effects" (2022), published in Science China Earth Sciences
  • "Extreme metamorphism and metamorphic facies series at convergent plate boundaries: Implications for supercontinent dynamics" (2021), published in Geosphere
  • "The effect of supercritical fluids on Nb-Ta fractionation in subduction zones: Geochemical insights from a coesite-bearing eclogite-vein system" (2022), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "High dietary lipid level promotes low salinity adaptation in the marine euryhaline crab (Scylla paramamosain)" (2022), published in Animal Nutrition
  • "The composition of garnet in granite and pegmatite from the Gangdese orogen in southeastern Tibet: Constraints on pegmatite petrogenesis" (2020), published in American Mineralogist

Ren-Xu Chen frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Yong-Fei Zheng
  • Qiong-Xia Xia
  • Yi-Xiang Chen
  • Xiang-Ping Zha
  • Zhuang-Zhuang Yin

Best Publications

  • Partial melting, fluid supercriticality and element mobility in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks during continental collision

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Qiong-Xia Xia;Ren-Xu Chen;Xiao-Ying Gao

  • Chemical geodynamics of continental subduction-zone metamorphism: Insights from studies of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) core samples

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Metamorphic growth and recrystallization of zircon: Distinction by simultaneous in-situ analyses of trace elements, U–Th–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes in zircons from eclogite-facies rocks in the Sulu orogen

    Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Liewen Xie

  • Paleozoic–early Mesozoic gold deposits of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China

    Zongyao Rui;Richard J. Goldfarb;Yumin Qiu;Taihe Zhou

  • Regional metamorphism at extreme conditions: Implications for orogeny at convergent plate margins

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen

  • Element mobility in mafic and felsic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks during continental collision

    Zi-Fu Zhao;Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen;Qiong-Xia Xia

  • Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt: compositional inheritance and metamorphic modification

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Zi-Fu Zhao;Ren-Xu Chen

  • TC/EA-MS online determination of hydrogen isotope composition and water concentration in eclogitic garnet

    Bing Gong;Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen

  • Origin of retrograde fluid in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks : Constraints from mineral hydrogen isotope and water content changes in eclogite-gneiss transitions in the Sulu orogen

    Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Bing Gong;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Tectonic driving of Neoproterozoic glaciations: Evidence from extreme oxygen isotope signature of meteoric water in granite

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Yuan-Bao Wu;Yuan-Bao Wu;Bing Gong;Ren-Xu Chen

  • Metamorphic growth and recrystallization of zircons in extremely 18O-depleted rocks during eclogite-facies metamorphism: Evidence from U–Pb ages, trace elements, and O–Hf isotopes

    Yi-Xiang Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen;Shao-Bing Zhang

  • Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for contrasting origin of bimodal protoliths for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling project

    R.-X. Chen;R.-X. Chen;Y.-F. Zheng;Y.-F. Zheng;Z.-F. Zhao;J. Tang

  • Zr-in-rutile thermometry of eclogite in the Dabie orogen: Constraints on rutile growth during continental subduction-zone metamorphism

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Xiao-Ying Gao;Xiao-Ying Gao;Ren-Xu Chen;Tianshan Gao;Tianshan Gao

  • Metamorphic zirconology of continental subduction zones

    Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng

  • Extreme metamorphism and metamorphic facies series at convergent plate boundaries: Implications for supercontinent dynamics

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  • Multiple episodes of anatexis in a collisional orogen: Zircon evidence from migmatite in the Dabie orogen

    Ren-Xu Chen;Binghua Ding;Yong-Fei Zheng;Zhaochu Hu

  • The crust‐mantle interaction in continental subduction channels: Zircon evidence from orogenic peridotite in the Sulu orogen

    Hai-Yong Li;Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Zhaochu Hu

  • Tectonic evolution from oceanic subduction to continental collision during the closure of Paleotethyan ocean: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from metamorphic rocks in the Hong'an orogen

    Li-Gang Zhou;Qiong-Xia Xia;Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen

  • The tectonic transition from oceanic subduction to continental subduction: Zirconological constraints from two types of eclogites in the North Qaidam orogen, northern Tibet

    Long Zhang;Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Wan-Cai Li

  • Oxygen isotope geochemistry of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from 200–4000 m core samples of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling

    Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Bing Gong;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Mineral hydrogen isotopes and water contents in ultrahigh-pressure metabasite and metagranite: Constraints on fluid flow during continental subduction-zone metamorphism

    Ren-Xu Chen;Yong-Fei Zheng;Bing Gong

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong-Fei Zheng
Yong-Fei Zheng University of Science and Technology of China
Zhaochu Hu
Zhaochu Hu China University of Geosciences
Zi-Fu Zhao
Zi-Fu Zhao University of Science and Technology of China
Yuan-Bao Wu
Yuan-Bao Wu China University of Geosciences
Yue-Heng Yang
Yue-Heng Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiu-Li Li
Qiu-Li Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fukun Chen
Fukun Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Lie-Wen Xie
Lie-Wen Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lixin Zhang
Lixin Zhang East China University of Science and Technology

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