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Zengqian Hou is affiliated with the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on several subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Economics and Econometrics, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work involves key topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geochemistry and Geochronology of Asian Mineral Deposits, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Notable recent publications by Zengqian Hou include the following papers:

  • Interplay between oceanic subduction and continental collision in building continental crust, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Continental Crustal Growth Processes Recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, Southern Tibet, 2023, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction, 2021, Science Advances
  • The Deep-Time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences, 2021, National Science Review
  • Cenozoic lithospheric architecture and metallogenesis in Southeastern Tibet, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews

Zengqian Hou frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Yuanchuan Zheng (27 joint publications)
  • Bo Xu (20 joint publications)
  • Zhiming Yang (13 joint publications)
  • Rui Wang (12 joint publications)
  • Zhusen Yang (10 joint publications)

In terms of publication venues, their work has appeared most often in:

  • Ore Geology Reviews (16 publications)
  • Lithos (9 publications)
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin (7 publications)
  • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) (6 publications)
  • Science Advances (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yildirim Dilek;Yildirim Dilek

  • Origin of adakitic intrusives generated during mid-Miocene east–west extension in southern Tibet

    Z.-Q Hou;Y.-F Gao;X.-M Qu;Z.-Y Rui

  • Contribution of syncollisional felsic magmatism to continental crust growth: A case study of the Paleogene Linzizong volcanic Succession in southern Tibet

    Xuanxue Mo;Yaoling Niu;Guochen Dong;Zhidan Zhao

  • Mantle contributions to crustal thickening during continental collision: Evidence from Cenozoic igneous rocks in southern Tibet

    Xuanxue Mo;Zengqian Hou;Yaoling Niu;Guochen Dong

  • Lithospheric Architecture of the Lhasa Terrane and Its Control on Ore Deposits in the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

    Zengqian Hou;Lianfeng Duan;Yongjun Lu;Yuanchuan Zheng

  • A genetic linkage between subduction- and collision-related porphyry Cu deposits in continental collision zones

    Zengqian Hou;Zhiming Yang;Yongjun Lu;Anthony Kemp

  • The Miocene Gangdese porphyry copper belt generated during post-collisional extension in the Tibetan Orogen

    Zengqian Hou;Zhiming Yang;Xiaoming Qu;Xiangjin Meng

  • Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic compositions of the post-collisional ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: Petrogenesis and implications for India intra-continental subduction beneath southern Tibet

    Zhidan Zhao;Xuanxue Mo;Yildirim Dilek;Yaoling Niu

  • Sanjiang Tethyan metallogenesis in S.W. China: Tectonic setting, metallogenic epochs and deposit types

    Zengqian Hou;Khin Zaw;Guitang Pan;Xuanxue Mo

  • Metallogenesis of the Tibetan collisional orogen: A review and introduction to the special issue

    Zengqian Hou;Nigel J. Cook

  • Porphyry Cu (–Mo–Au) deposits related to melting of thickened mafic lower crust: Examples from the eastern Tethyan metallogenic domain

    Zengqian Hou;Hongrui Zhang;Xiaofei Pan;Zhiming Yang

  • Geology of the post-collisional porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit at Qulong, Tibet

    Zhiming Yang;Zengqian Hou;Noel C. White;Zhaoshan Chang

  • High-Mg diorite from Qulong in southern Tibet: Implications for the genesis of adakite-like intrusions and associated porphyry Cu deposits in collisional orogens

    Zhi-Ming Yang;Yong-Jun Lu;Zeng-Qian Hou;Zhao-Shan Chang

  • Zircon Compositions as a Pathfinder for Porphyry Cu ± Mo ± Au Deposits

    Yong-Jun Lu;Robert R. Loucks;Marco Fiorentini;T. Campbell McCuaig

  • Melt components derived from a subducted slab in late orogenic ore-bearing porphyries in the Gangdese copper belt, southern Tibetan plateau

    Xiaoming Qu;Zengqian Hou;Youguo Li

  • The Himalayan collision zone carbonatites in western Sichuan, SW China: Petrogenesis, mantle source and tectonic implication

    Zengqian Hou;Shihong Tian;Zhongxin Yuan;Yuling Xie

  • Contribution of mantle components within juvenile lower-crust to collisional zone porphyry Cu systems in Tibet

    Zengqian Hou;Yuanchuan Zheng;Zhiming Yang;Zongyao Rui

  • Adakite-like porphyries from the southern Tibetan continental collision zones: evidence for slab melt metasomatism

    Yongfeng Gao;Zengqian Hou;Balz S. Kamber;Ruihua Wei

  • Nature, diversity of deposit types and metallogenic relations of South China

    Khin Zaw;Stephen G. Peters;Paul Cromie;Clive Burrett

  • Eocene-Oligocene granitoids in southern Tibet: Constraints on crustal anatexis and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen

    Zeng-Qian Hou;Yuan-Chuan Zheng;Ling-Sen Zeng;Li-E Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiming Yang
Zhiming Yang North Carolina Central University
Rui Wang
Rui Wang China University of Geosciences
Xuanxue Mo
Xuanxue Mo China University of Geosciences
Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences
Yongjun Lu
Yongjun Lu Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
Di-Cheng Zhu
Di-Cheng Zhu China University of Geosciences
Jeremy P. Richards
Jeremy P. Richards Laurentian University
Zhaoshan Chang
Zhaoshan Chang Colorado School of Mines
Khin Zaw
Khin Zaw University of Tasmania
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences

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