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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
5919
World Ranking
6125
National Ranking
381

Best Publications

  • An overview of the crustal structure of the Tibetan plateau after 35 years of deep seismic soundings

    Zhongjie Zhang;Yangfan Deng;Jiwen Teng;Chunyong Wang

  • Crustal-scale duplexing beneath the Yarlung Zangbo suture in the western Himalaya

    Rui Gao;Zhanwu Lu;Simon L. Klemperer;Haiyan Wang

  • Seismic evidence for the North China plate underthrusting beneath northeastern Tibet and its implications for plateau growth

    Zhuo Ye;Rui Gao;Qiusheng Li;Hongshuang Zhang

  • A mid-crustal strain-transfer model for continental deformation: A new perspective from high-resolution deep seismic-reflection profiling across NE Tibet

    Chengshan Wang;Rui Gao;An Yin;An Yin;Haiyan Wang

  • Imaging the crustal structure beneath the eastern Tibetan Plateau and implications for the uplift of the Longmen Shan range

    Xiaoyu Guo;Rui Gao;G. Randy Keller;Xiao Xu

  • Crustal structures revealed from a deep seismic reflection profile across the Solonker suture zone of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, northern China: An integrated interpretation

    Shihong Zhang;Rui Gao;Haiyan Li;Hesheng Hou

  • What drove continued continent-continent convergence after ocean closure? Insights from high-resolution seismic-reflection profiling across the Daba Shan in central China

    Shuwen Dong;Rui Gao;An Yin;Tonglou Guo

  • A possible buried Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen beneath central South China: Evidence from seismic-reflection profiling

    S.W. Dong;Y.Q. Zhang;R. Gao;J.B. Su

  • Variety and complexity of the Late-Permian Emeishan basalts: Reappraisal of plume-lithosphere interaction processes

    Qi He;Long Xiao;Brian Balta;Rui Gao

  • Carboniferous-Permian extensive magmatism in the West Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China: its geochemistry, geochronology, and petrogenesis

    Rui Gao;Rui Gao;Long Xiao;Franco Pirajno;Franco Pirajno;Guo-can Wang

  • Investigation of the Moho discontinuity beneath the Chinese mainland using deep seismic sounding profiles

    Jiwen Teng;Zhongjie Zhang;Xiankang Zhang;Chunyong Wang

  • Seismic image of the Tarim basin and its collision with Tibet

    Honn Kao;Rui Gao;Ruey Juin Rau;Danian Shi

  • Crustal structure of the southern Dabie ultrahigh‐pressure orogen and Yangtze foreland from deep seismic reflection profiling

    Shuwen Dong;Rui Gao;Bolin Cong;Zhongyan Zhao

  • New images of the crustal structure beneath eastern Tibet from a high-density seismic array

    Zhen Liu;Xiaobo Tian;Xiaobo Tian;Rui Gao;Gaochun Wang

  • Mantle influx compensates crustal thinning beneath the Cathaysia Block, South China: Evidence from SINOPROBE reflection profiling

    Shuwen Dong;Jianhua Li;Peter A. Cawood;Rui Gao

  • Lithospheric architecture and deformation of NE Tibet: New insights on the interplay of regional tectonic processes

    Xiaoyu Guo;Rui Gao;Sanzhong Li;Xiao Xu

  • Crustal thickness and Poisson's ratios of South China revealed from joint inversion of receiver function and gravity data

    Lianghui Guo;Rui Gao;Lei Shi;Zhangrong Huang

  • Progress in deep lithospheric exploration of the continental China: A review of the SinoProbe

    Shu-Wen Dong;Ting-Dong Li;Qing-Tian Lü;Rui Gao

  • SINOPROBE deep reflection profile reveals a Neo-Proterozoic subduction zone beneath Sichuan Basin

    Rui Gao;Chen Chen;Haiyan Wang;Zhanwu Lu

  • Paleomagnetic analysis of eastern Tibet: implications for the collisional and amalgamation history of the Three Rivers Region, SW China

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Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Klemperer
Simon L. Klemperer Stanford University
Qiusheng Li
Qiusheng Li City University of Hong Kong
Yueqiao Zhang
Yueqiao Zhang Nanjing University
Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown Cornell University
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University
Mian Liu
Mian Liu University of Missouri
Sanzhong Li
Sanzhong Li Ocean University of China
Shuwen Dong
Shuwen Dong Nanjing University
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong
Jian-Bo Zhou
Jian-Bo Zhou Jilin University

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