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Zhenyu Yang is affiliated with Beihang University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The primary subfields of research include Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Paleontology.

Their published works cover a range of geological and biological topics, with notable emphasis on geological and geochemical analysis, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional research areas include geology and paleoclimatology, earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies, and the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhenyu Yang include:

  • Yabo Tong
  • Junling Pei
  • Xinxin Sun
  • Zijian Zhang
  • Lifu Hou

Yang has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Tectonics
  • Geology
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yang include:

  • "Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision," 2020, National Science Review
  • "Differential crustal rotation and its control on giant ore clusters along the eastern margin of Tibet," 2020, Geology
  • "Triple-stage India-Asia collision involving arc-continent collision and subsequent two-stage continent-continent collision," 2022, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Melatonin exerts neuroprotective effects by inhibiting neuronal pyroptosis and autophagy in STZ-induced diabetic mice," 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • "Crustal Clockwise Rotation of the Southeastern Edge of the Tibetan Plateau Since the Late Oligocene," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the geodynamic history of the major blocks of China from the Permian to the present

    Randolph J. Enkin;Zhenyu Yang;Yan Chen;Vincent Courtillot

  • Carboniferous granitic plutons from the northern margin of the North China block: implications for a late Palaeozoic active continental margin

    Shuan-Hong Zhang;Yue Zhao;Biao Song;Zhen-Yu Yang

  • The 1.35 Ga diabase sills from the northern North China Craton: Implications for breakup of the Columbia (Nuna) supercontinent

    Shuan-Hong Zhang;Yue Zhao;Zhen-Yu Yang;Zhe-Feng He

  • Magnetostratigraphy of Paleogene sediments from northern Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for tectonic uplift and block rotation in northern Tibetan plateau

    Zhiming Sun;Zhenyu Yang;Junling Pei;Xiaohong Ge

  • A long connection (750-380 Ma) between South China and Australia: paleomagnetic constraints

    Zhenyu Yang;Zhiming Sun;Tienshui Yang;Junling Pei

  • Jurassic Tectonic Revolution in China and New Interpretation of the “Yanshan Movement”

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  • Paleomagnetic study of Permian and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks from Northern Thailand supports the extrusion model for Indochina

    Zhenyu Yang;Jean Besse

  • The 1.33–1.30 Ga Yanliao large igneous province in the North China Craton: Implications for reconstruction of the Nuna (Columbia) supercontinent, and specifically with the North Australian Craton

    Shuan-Hong Zhang;Yue Zhao;Xian-Hua Li;Richard E. Ernst;Richard E. Ernst

  • The configuration of Asia prior to the collision of India: Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints

    Yan Chen;Vincent Courtillot;Jean-Pascal Cogné;Jean Besse

  • New Mesozoic apparent polar wander path for south China: Tectonic consequences

    Zhenyu Yang;Jean Besse

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the tectonic history of the major blocks of China duing the Phanerozoic

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  • A multilayered water column in the Ediacaran Yangtze platform? Insights from carbonate and organic matter paired δ13C

    M. Ader;M. Macouin;R. I. F. Trindade;M. H. Hadrien

  • Jurassic paleomagnetic constraints on the collision of the North and South China Blocks

    Zhenyu Yang;Vincent Courtillot;Jean Besse;Xinghua Ma

  • Palaeomagnetism of late Cretaceous sediments from southern Tibet: Evidence for the consistent palaeolatitudes of the southern margin of Eurasia prior to the collision with India

    Zhiming Sun;Junling Pei;Haibing Li;Wei Xu

  • Combined paleomagnetic and isotopic data from the Doushantuo carbonates, South China: implications for the “snowball Earth” hypothesis

    M. Macouin;J. Besse;M. Ader;S. Gilder

  • New insights into the India–Asia collision process from Cretaceous paleomagnetic and geochronologic results in the Lhasa terrane

    Tianshui Yang;Yiming Ma;Shihong Zhang;Weiwei Bian

  • Paleomagnetism and U‐Pb zircon geochronology of Lower Cretaceous lava flows from the western Lhasa terrane: New constraints on the India‐Asia collision process and intracontinental deformation within Asia

    Yiming Ma;Tianshui Yang;Zhenyu Yang;Shihong Zhang

  • How and when did the Yellow River develop its square bend

    Aiming Lin;Zhenyu Yang;Zhiming Sun;Tianshui Yang

  • Paleomagnetic results from Triassic sections in the Ordos Basin, North China

    Zhenyu Yang;Xinghua Ma;Jean Besse;Vincent Courtillot

  • Paleomagnetic study of middle Cretaceous rocks from Yunlong, western Yunnan, China: evidence of southward displacement of Indochina

    Ken Sato;Yuyan Liu;Zhicheng Zhu;Zhenyu Yang

  • Tertiary paleomagnetic data from northwestern Yunnan, China: further evidence for large clockwise rotation of the Indochina block and its tectonic implications

    Ken Sato;Yuyan Liu;Zhicheng Zhu;Zhenyu Yang

  • Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision

    Jie Yuan;Zhenyu Yang;Chenglong Deng;Wout Krijgsman

  • Early Paleozoic paleomagnetic poles from the western part of the North China Block and their implications

    Baochun Huang;Baochun Huang;Zhenyu Yang;Yo-ichiro Otofuji;Rixiang Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shihong Zhang
Shihong Zhang China University of Geosciences
Rixiang Zhu
Rixiang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yue Zhao
Yue Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun Deng
Jun Deng China University of Geosciences
Yongxiang Li
Yongxiang Li RMIT University
Qingfei Wang
Qingfei Wang China University of Geosciences
Shuan-Hong Zhang
Shuan-Hong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chenglong Deng
Chenglong Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mark J. Dekkers
Mark J. Dekkers Utrecht University
Huaichun Wu
Huaichun Wu China University of Geosciences

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