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Shuguang Song

Shuguang Song

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
11153
World Ranking
3178
National Ranking
200

Overview

Shuguang Song is affiliated with Peking University in China and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Throughout their academic career, they have contributed extensively to fields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Inorganic Chemistry. Their research output prominently covers topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Song has an extensive record of publications, with recurring contributions to several scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Lithos
  • Gondwana Research
  • Precambrian Research
  • International Geology Review
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their research often involves collaboration, and frequently co-authored scientists include:

  • Mark B. Allen
  • Chao Wang
  • Li Su
  • Di Feng
  • Tao Wen

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Song span several years and address a range of geological topics. Selected recent works include:

  • "Post-collisional mafic magmatism: Insights into orogenic collapse and mantle modification from North Qaidam collisional belt, NW China" (2021, Lithos)
  • "An oblique subduction model for closure of the Proto-Tethys and Palaeo-Tethys oceans and creation of the Central China Orogenic Belt" (2023, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Early Devonian mafic igneous rocks in the East Kunlun Orogen, NW China: Implications for the transition from the Proto- to Paleo-Tethys oceans" (2020, Lithos)
  • "Tracing tectonic processes from Proto- to Paleo-Tethys in the East Kunlun Orogen by detrital zircons" (2022, Gondwana Research)
  • "Ultrahigh-pressure peridotites record Neoarchean collisional tectonics" (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Song's work prominently addresses tectonic and magmatic processes, with particular attention to orogenic events and subduction dynamics in regions of NW China. This body of research contributes to understanding the geological evolution of oceanic closures and collisional belts.

Best Publications

  • Tectonics of the North Qilian orogen, NW China

    Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Li Su;Xiaohong Xia

  • Evolution from Oceanic Subduction to Continental Collision: a Case Study from the Northern Tibetan Plateau Based on Geochemical and Geochronological Data

    Shuguang Song;Lifei Zhang;Yaoling Niu;L I Su

  • Continental orogenesis from ocean subduction, continent collision/subduction, to orogen collapse, and orogen recycling: The example of the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China

    Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Li Su;Cong Zhang

  • Triassic collision of western Tianshan orogenic belt, China: Evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from HP/UHP eclogitic rocks

    Lifei Zhang;Yongliang Ai;Xuping Li;Daniela Rubatto

  • Metamorphic evolution of the coesite-bearing ultrahigh-pressure terrane in the North Qaidam, Northern Tibet, NW China

    S. G. Song;J. S. Yang;Z. Q. Xu;J. G. Liou

  • Triassic eclogites from central Qiangtang, northern Tibet, China: Petrology, geochronology and metamorphic P–T path

    Qing-Guo Zhai;Qing-Guo Zhai;Ru-Yuan Zhang;Ru-Yuan Zhang;Bor-Ming Jahn;Bor-Ming Jahn;Cai Li

  • Ophiolites in the Xing'an-Inner Mongolia accretionary belt of the CAOB: Implications for two cycles of seafloor spreading and accretionary orogenic events

    Shuguang Song;Shuguang Song;Ming-Ming Wang;Xin Xu;Chao Wang

  • Petrology, geochemistry and isotopic ages of eclogites from the Dulan UHPM Terrane, the North Qaidam, NW China

    Shuguang Song;Jingsui Yang;J.G Liou;Cailai Wu

  • Ultra-deep origin of garnet peridotite from the North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure belt, northern Tibetan Plateau, NW China

    Shuguang Song;Lifei zhang;Yaoling Niu

  • Geochronology of diamond-bearing zircons from garnet peridotite in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau: A record of complex histories from oceanic lithosphere subduction to continental collision

    Shuguang Song;Lifei Zhang;Yaoling Niu;Li Su

  • Tracing the 850-Ma continental flood basalts from a piece of subducted continental crust in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China

    Shuguang Song;Li Su;Xian-hua Li;Guibing Zhang

  • Grenville-age orogenesis in the Qaidam-Qilian block: The link between South China and Tarim

    Shuguang Song;Li Su;Xian-hua Li;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu

  • The subducted oceanic crust within continental-type UHP metamorphic belt in the North Qaidam, NW China: Evidence from petrology, geochemistry and geochronology

    Guibin Zhang;Shuguang Song;Lifei Zhang;Yaoling Niu

  • Metamorphism, anatexis, zircon ages and tectonic evolution of the Gongshan block in the northern Indochina continent—An eastern extension of the Lhasa Block

    Shuguang Song;Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Chunjing Wei;Jianqing Ji

  • Eclogite and carpholite-bearing metasedimentary rocks in the North Qilian suture zone, NW China: implications for Early Palaeozoic cold oceanic subduction and water transport into mantle

    S. G. Song;S. G. Song;L. F. Zhang;Y. Niu;C. J. Wei

  • Tectonic evolution of early Paleozoic HP metamorphic rocks in the North Qilian Mountains, NW China: New perspectives

    Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Lifei Zhang;Chunjing Wei

  • Tholeiite–Boninite terrane in the North Qilian suture zone: Implications for subduction initiation and back-arc basin development

    Xiaohong Xia;Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu

  • CH4 inclusions in orogenic harzburgite: Evidence for reduced slab fluids and implication for redox melting in mantle wedge

    Shuguang Song;Shuguang Song;Li Su;Yaoling Niu;Yong Lai

  • Melting of continental crust during subduction initiation: A case study from the Chaidanuo peraluminous granite in the North Qilian suture zone

    Yuxiao Chen;Shuguang Song;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Chunjing Wei

  • Relict coesite exsolution in omphacite from Western Tianshan eclogites, China

    Lifei Zhang;Shuguang Song;Juhn G. Liou;Yongliang Ai

  • HP-UHP metamorphic belt in the East Kunlun Orogen : final closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and formation of the Pan-North-China Continent.

    Shuguang Song;Hengzhe Bi;Shengsheng Qi;Liming Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences
Li Su
Li Su China University of Geosciences
Lifei Zhang
Lifei Zhang Peking University
Mark B. Allen
Mark B. Allen Durham University
Haemyeong Jung
Haemyeong Jung Seoul National University
Chunjing Wei
Chunjing Wei Peking University
Juhn G. Liou
Juhn G. Liou Stanford University
Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biao Song
Biao Song Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
David J. Ellis
David J. Ellis Australian National University

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