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Shaocong Lai is affiliated with Northwest University in the United States and specializes primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions span areas including geophysics, artificial intelligence applications in earth sciences, economics and econometrics, geochemistry and petrology, and filtration and separation techniques. The scientist's work is characterized by a strong emphasis on geological and geochemical analysis alongside high-pressure geophysics and material studies.

Lai's research topics focus on a number of specialized domains:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Geochronology of Asian Mineral Deposits
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Chemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Jiangfeng Qin
  • Ren-Zhi Zhu
  • Yu Zhu
  • Fangyi Zhang
  • Min Liu

Shaocong Lai has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most common venues for their work include:

  • Lithos
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Lai include:

  • Neoproterozoic metasomatized mantle beneath the western Yangtze Block, South China: Evidence from whole-rock geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of mafic rocks, 2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Genesis of ca. 850-835 Ma high-Mg# diorites in the western Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for mantle metasomatism under the subduction process, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Neoproterozoic tectonic transition from subduction to back-arc extension along the western Yangtze Block, South China: Petrological evidence of Nb-enriched basalts and arc-type intrusive rocks, 2023, Gondwana Research
  • Constructing the latest Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic multiple crust-mantle interactions in western Bainaimiao arc terrane, southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, 2020, Geoscience Frontiers
  • Thermotectonic evolution of the Paleozoic granites along the Shangdan suture zone (central China): Crustal growth and differentiation by magma underplating in an orogenic belt, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Lai's work integrates advanced geochemical and geophysical methods, focusing on the tectonic, petrological, and geochemical processes that shape continental crust evolution and mantle dynamics. The research also explores mantle metasomatism, subduction-related phenomena, and crust-mantle interactions during key geologic epochs.

Best Publications

  • Collision leading to multiple-stage large-scale extrusion in the Qinling orogen: Insights from the Mianlue suture

    Sanzhong Li;Timothy M. Kusky;Lu Wang;Guowei Zhang

  • Geochemical evidence for origin of magma mixing for the Triassic monzonitic granite and its enclaves at Mishuling in the Qinling orogen (central China)

    Jiangfeng Qin;Shaocong Lai;Rodney Grapes;Chunrong Diwu

  • Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous granite in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan and diachronous accretionary orogenesis along the northern margin of Gondwana

    Yuejun Wang;Yuejun Wang;Yuejun Wang;Xiaowan Xing;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Shaocong Lai

  • Magma mixing origin for the post-collisional adakitic monzogranite of the Triassic Yangba pluton, Northwestern margin of the South China block: geochemistry, Sr–Nd isotopic, zircon U–Pb dating and Hf isotopic evidences

    Jiang-Feng Qin;Shao-Cong Lai;Chun-Rong Diwu;Yin-Juan Ju

  • Early Paleoproterozoic (2.45-2.20Ga) magmatic activity during the period of global magmatic shutdown: Implications for the crustal evolution of the southern North China Craton

    Chunrong Diwu;Yong Sun;Yan Zhao;Shaocong Lai

  • U–Pb zircon, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic constraints on the age and origin of Early Palaeozoic I-type granite from the Tengchong–Baoshan Block, Western Yunnan Province, SW China

    Shen Liu;RuiZhong Hu;Shan Gao;CaiXia Feng

  • Tectonics and structure of Qinling orogenic belt

    Guowei Zhang;Qingren Meng;Shaocong Lai

  • Geochronological, geochemical, and Nd-Hf isotopic studies of the Qinling Complex, central China: Implications for the evolutionary history of the North Qinling Orogenic Belt

    Chunrong Diwu;Yong Sun;Yan Zhao;BingXiang Liu

  • Origin of LateTriassic high-Mg adakitic granitoid rocks from the Dongjiangkou area, Qinling orogen, central China: Implications for subduction of continental crust

    Jiang-Feng Qin;Shao-Cong Lai;Rodney Grapes;Chun-rong Diwu

  • Permian high Ti/Y basalts from the eastern part of the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, southwestern China: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Shaocong Lai;Jiangfeng Qin;Yongfei Li;Sanzhong Li;Sanzhong Li

  • An Early Devonian to Early Carboniferous volcanic arc in North Tianshan, NW China: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks

    Fang An;Fang An;Yongfeng Zhu;Shaoni Wei;Shaocong Lai

  • Early-Cretaceous highly fractionated I-type granites from the northern Tengchong block, western Yunnan, SW China: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Ren-Zhi Zhu;Shao-Cong Lai;Jiang-Feng Qin;Shao-Wei Zhao

  • Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Gaoligong belt, southeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau: Constraints from granitic gneisses and granitoid intrusions

    Shao-wei Zhao;Shao-cong Lai;Jiang-feng Qin;Ren-Zhi Zhu

  • Slab Breakoff Model for the Triassic Post-Collisional Adakitic Granitoids in the Qinling Orogen, Central China: Zircon U-Pb Ages, Geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Pb Isotopic Constraints

    Jiangfeng Qin;Shaocong Lai;Yongfei Li

  • An ophiolitic tectonic melange first discovered in Huashan area, South margin of Qinling orogenic belt, and its tectonic implications.

    Yunpeng Dong;Yunpeng Dong;Guowei Zhang;Shaocong Lai;Dingwu Zhou

  • Multi-stage granitic magmatism during exhumation of subducted continental lithosphere: Evidence from the Wulong pluton, South Qinling

    Jiang-Feng Qin;Shao-Cong Lai;Yong-Fei Li

  • High precision in-situ Pb isotopic analysis of sulfide minerals by femtosecond laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    HongLin Yuan;Cong Yin;Xu Liu;KaiYun Chen

  • Evolution of the Proto-Tethys in the Baoshan block along the East Gondwana margin: constraints from early Palaeozoic magmatism

    Shao-wei Zhao;Shao-cong Lai;Liang Gao;Jiang-feng Qin

  • High-Mg# Adakitic Tonalite from the Xichahe Area, South Qinling Orogenic Belt (Central China): Petrogenesis and Geological Implications

    Jiang-Feng Qin;Shao-Cong Lai;Juan Wang;Yong-Fei Li

  • Adakitic rocks derived from the partial melting of subducted continental crust: Evidence from the Eocene volcanic rocks in the northern Qiangtang block

    Shao-cong Lai;Jiang-feng Qin

  • Geochemistry of Ophiolites from the Mian-Lue Suture Zone: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of the Qinling Orogen, Central China

    Shaocong Lai;Jiangfeng Qin;Liang Chen;Rodney Grapes

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Xiaoping Long
Xiaoping Long Northwest University
Ruizhong Hu
Ruizhong Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shan Gao
Shan Gao China University of Geosciences
Guowei Zhang
Guowei Zhang Northwest University
Yuejun Wang
Yuejun Wang Sun Yat-sen University
Bor-ming Jahn
Bor-ming Jahn National Taiwan University
Sanzhong Li
Sanzhong Li Ocean University of China
Honglin Yuan
Honglin Yuan Northwest University
Peter A. Cawood
Peter A. Cawood Monash University

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