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Zheng-Xiang Li

Zheng-Xiang Li

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Earth Science
Australia
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
104
Citations
45949
World Ranking
108
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Zheng-Xiang Li is a researcher affiliated with Curtin University in Australia, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses predominantly on geophysics, with additional contributions in artificial intelligence, paleontology, geology, and molecular biology. Their research integrates geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, as well as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

The scientist has published extensively in several established venues. Frequent publication outlets include Precambrian Research, Acta Petrologica Sinica, Earth-Science Reviews, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). This reflects a broad engagement with both regional and international earth sciences communities.

Among their recent significant publications are:

  • "The supercontinent cycle," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "The magnificent seven: A proposal for modest revision of the quality index," 2020, Tectonophysics
  • "A dynamic 2000-540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle," 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent," 2020, Geology
  • "TTG generation by fluid-fluxed crustal melting: Direct evidence from the Proterozoic Georgetown Inlier, NE Australia," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Zheng-Xiang Li collaborates regularly with a network of co-authors, including Luc S. Doucet, J. Brendan Murphy, Yebo Liu, Sergei Pisarevsky, and William J. Collins. These collaborations underline a multidisciplinary and international approach to earth sciences research.

Their recognized expertise is marked by receiving the distinction of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019. This acknowledgment situates the researcher within a prominent professional community in geophysics and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

    Z.X. Li;Z.X. Li;S.V. Bogdanova;A.S. Collins;A. Davidson

  • Formation of the 1300-km-wide intracontinental orogen and postorogenic magmatic province in Mesozoic South China: A flat-slab subduction model

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Xian-Hua Li

  • Geochronology of Neoproterozoic syn-rift magmatism in the Yangtze Craton, South China and correlations with other continents: evidence for a mantle superplume that broke up Rodinia

    Z. X. Li

  • The breakup of Rodinia: did it start with a mantle plume beneath South China?

    Zheng-Xiang Li;X.H. Li;P.D. Kinny;J. Wang

  • Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: Constraints from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks

    Xian-Hua Li;Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Ching-Hua Lo

  • Grenvillian continental collision in South China: new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the configuration of Rodinia

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Xian-hua Li;Hanwen Zhou;Peter D. Kinny

  • South China in Rodinia: Part of the missing link between Australia–East Antarctica and Laurentia?

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Linghua Zhang;Christopher McA. Powell

  • U-Pb zircon, geochemical and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic constraints on age and origin of Jurassic I- and A-type granites from central Guangdong, SE China: A major igneous event in response to foundering of a subducted flat-slab?

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Wu-Xian Li;Ying Liu

  • Magmatic and metamorphic events during the early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny, southeastern South China: New age constraints and pressure-temperature conditions

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Xian-Hua Li;Jo-Anne Wartho;Chris Clark

  • U-Pb zircon geochronology, geochemistry and Nd isotopic study of Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanic rocks in the Kangdian Rift of South China : Implications for the initial rifting of Rodinia

    Xian-hua Li;Xian-hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Hanwen Zhou;Ying Liu

  • Contrasting zircon Hf and O isotopes in the two episodes of Neoproterozoic granitoids in South China: Implications for growth and reworking of continental crust

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Yong-Fei Zheng;Shao-Bing Zhang;Zi-Fu Zhao;Yuan-Bao Wu;Yuan-Bao Wu

  • An outline of the palaeogeographic evolution of the Australasian region since the beginning of the Neoproterozoic

    Z.X. Li;C.McA. Powell

  • Global record of 1600–700 Ma Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs): Implications for the reconstruction of the proposed Nuna (Columbia) and Rodinia supercontinents

    R. Ernst;Michael Wingate;Michael Wingate;Michael Wingate;K. Buchan;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;David A.D. Evans;Galen P. Halverson;Galen P. Halverson

  • Pre-Rodinia supercontinent Nuna shaping up: A global synthesis with new paleomagnetic results from North China

    Shihong Zhang;Zheng-Xiang Li;David A.D. Evans;Huaichun Wu

  • 850-790 Ma bimodal volcanic and intrusive rocks in northern Zhejiang, South China: A major episode of continental rift magmatism during the breakup of Rodinia

    Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Ying Liu

  • Mesoproterozoic paleogeography Supercontinent and beyond

    Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Sten-Åke Elming;Lauri J. Pesonen;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on timing of the Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia and the Cambrian formation of Gondwana

    C.Mca. Powell;Zheng-Xiang Li;M.W. Mcelhinny;J.G. Meert

  • Initiation of the Indosinian Orogeny in South China : Evidence for a Permian Magmatic Arc on Hainan Island

    Xian‐Hua Li;Zheng‐Xiang Li;Wu‐Xian Li;Yuejun Wang

  • Collision between the North and South China Blocks: a crustal detachment model for suturing in the region east of the Tanlu fault

    Zheng-Xiang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wu-Xian Li
Wu-Xian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuan-Ce Wang
Xuan-Ce Wang Yunnan University
C. McA. Powell
C. McA. Powell University of Western Australia
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University
Ross N. Mitchell
Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences
Derek A. Wyman
Derek A. Wyman University of Sydney
Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Richard E. Ernst
Richard E. Ernst Carleton University

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