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Earth Science
Taiwan
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
107
Citations
41030
World Ranking
92
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Sun-Lin Chung is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan and has made extensive contributions to Earth and Planetary Sciences, notably within the fields of Geophysics, Geology, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, and Geochemistry and Petrology. Their research spans geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemical and geologic mapping, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Interplay between oceanic subduction and continental collision in building continental crust (2022, Nature Communications)
  • First mid-ocean ridge-type ophiolite from the Meso-Tethys suture zone in the north-central Tibetan plateau (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Ages of ophiolitic rocks along plate suture in Taiwan orogen: Fate of the South China Sea from subduction to collision (2020, Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
  • Resolving the Paleogeographic Puzzle of the Lhasa Terrane in Southern Tibet (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)

Chung has frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Lithos
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Geological Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work involves collaboration with multiple co-authors, such as:

  • Hao-Yang Lee
  • Yoshiyuki Iizuka
  • Ping-Ping Liu
  • Yu-Ming Lai
  • Xian-Hua Li

Sun-Lin Chung's research encompasses key topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Throughout their career, Chung has received recognition from scientific organizations, including the Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2018 and the Geochemistry Fellow Honor awarded by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Tibetan tectonic evolution inferred from spatial and temporal variations in post-collisional magmatism

    Sun Lin Chung;Mei Fei Chu;Yuquan Zhang;Yingwen Xie

  • The Amount of Recycled Crust in Sources of Mantle-Derived Melts

    Alexander V. Sobolev;Albrecht W. Hofmann;Dmitry V. Kuzmin;Gregory M. Yaxley

  • The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Xuan-Xue Mo

  • Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet

    Sun Lin Chung;Dunyi Liu;Jianqing Ji;Mei Fei Chu

  • Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Permian Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China

    Yigang Xu;Sun-Lin Chung;Bor-ming Jahn;Genyao Wu

  • Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet

    Wei-Qiang Ji;Fu-Yuan Wu;Sun-Lin Chung;Jin-Xiang Li

  • Plume-lithosphere interaction in generation of the Emeishan flood basalts at the Permian-Triassic boundary

    Sun-Lin Chung;Bor-ming Jahn

  • Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40?Myr ago

    Sun Lin Chung;Ching Hua Lo;Tung Yi Lee;Yuquan Zhang

  • Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints on the Mesozoic tectonics and crustal evolution of southern Tibet

    Mei Fei Chu;Sun Lin Chung;Biao Song;Dunyi Liu

  • A hybrid origin for the Qianshan A-type granite, northeast China: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic evidence

    Jin Hui Yang;Fu Yuan Wu;Sun Lin Chung;Simon A. Wilde

  • Geologic, geochemical, and geophysical consequences of plume involvement in the Emeishan flood-basalt province

    Yi-Gang Xu;Bin He;Sun-Lin Chung;Martin A. Menzies

  • Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb ages of the Gangdese Batholith and implications for Neotethyan subduction in southern Tibet

    Da Ren Wen;Dunyi Liu;Sun Lin Chung;Mei Fei Chu

  • Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Sun-Lin Chung

  • Intraplate extension prior to continental extrusion along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone

    Sun-Lin Chung;Tung-Yi Lee;Ching-Hua Lo;Pei-Ling Wang

  • Petrogenesis of post-orogenic syenites in the Sulu Orogenic Belt, East China: geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic evidence

    Jin Hui Yang;Sun Lin Chung;Simon A. Wilde;Fu Yuan Wu

  • Zircon U-Pb age constraints from Iran on the magmatic evolution related to Neotethyan subduction and Zagros orogeny

    Han-Yi Chiu;Sun-Lin Chung;Mohammad Hossein Zarrinkoub;Seyyed Saeid Mohammadi

  • The Nature and timing of crustal thickening in Southern Tibet : geochemical and zircon Hf isotopic constraints from postcollisional adakites

    Sun-Lin Chung;Mei-Fei Chu;Mei-Fei Chu;Jianqing Ji;Suzanne Y O'Reilly

  • Geochemical and Sr‐Nd isotopic characteristics of volcanic rocks from the Okinawa Trough and Ryukyu Arc: Implications for the evolution of a young, intracontinental back arc basin

    Ryuichi Shinjo;Sun-Lin Chung;Yuzo Kato;Masaaki Kimura

  • Eocene Neotethyan slab breakoff in southern Tibet inferred from the Linzizong volcanic record

    Hao Yang Lee;Sun Lin Chung;Ching Hua Lo;Jianqing Ji

  • Mantle dynamics and plate interactions in East Asia

    Martin F. J. Flower;Sun‐Lin Chung;Ching‐Hua Lo;Tung‐Yi Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Ching-Hua Lo
Ching-Hua Lo National Taiwan University
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kuo-Lung Wang
Kuo-Lung Wang Academia Sinica
Bor-ming Jahn
Bor-ming Jahn National Taiwan University
Yoshiyuki Iizuka
Yoshiyuki Iizuka Academia Sinica
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford
Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences
Di-Cheng Zhu
Di-Cheng Zhu China University of Geosciences
Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dunyi Liu
Dunyi Liu Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

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