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Zi-Fu Zhao is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Zi-Fu Zhao has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Lithos
  • Chemical Geology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Geology

Their recent papers showcase research across different geological and geochemical topics:

  • Accurate and precise in situ U-Pb isotope dating of wolframite series minerals via LA-SF-ICP-MS, 2020, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Miocene high-temperature leucogranite magmatism in the Himalayan orogen, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Identification of Jurassic mafic arc magmatism in the eastern North China Craton: Geochemical evidence for westward subduction of the Paleo-Pacific slab, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Generation of andesite through partial melting of basaltic metasomatites in the mantle wedge: Insight from quantitative study of Andean andesites, 2020, Geoscience Frontiers
  • Zinc isotope fractionation in mantle rocks and minerals, and a revised δ66Zn value for the Bulk Silicate Earth, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Zi-Fu Zhao include:

  • Li-Qun Dai
  • Yong-Fei Zheng
  • Guochao Sun
  • Wei Fang
  • Li-Tao Ma

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Zircon U-Pb and oxygen isotope evidence for a large-scale 18O depletion event in igneous rocks during the Neoproterozoic

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Yuan-Bao Wu;Fu-Kun Chen;Bing Gong

  • Zircon U-Pb age, Hf and O isotope constraints on protolith origin of ultrahigh-pressure eclogite and gneiss in the Dabie orogen

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

  • Zircon U-Pb age and Hf-O isotope evidence for Paleoproterozoic metamorphic event in South China

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

  • Zircon isotope evidence for ≥3.5Ga continental crust in the Yangtze craton of China

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

  • Reworking of juvenile crust: Element and isotope evidence from Neoproterozoic granodiorite in South China

    Rong-Xin Wu;Rong-Xin Wu;Yong-Fei Zheng;Yong-Fei Zheng;Yuan-Bao Wu;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for 3.8 Ga crustal remnant and episodic reworking of Archean crust in South China

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

  • Metamorphic effect on zircon Lu-Hf and U-Pb isotope systems in ultrahigh-pressure eclogite-facies metagranite and metabasite

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

  • Chemical geodynamics of continental subduction-zone metamorphism: Insights from studies of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) core samples

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Ren-Xu Chen;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Calculation of oxygen isotope fractionation in magmatic rocks

    Zi-Fu Zhao;Yong-Fei Zheng

  • U Pb, Hf and O isotope evidence for two episodes of fluid-assisted zircon growth in marble-hosted eclogites from the Dabie orogen

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

  • Geochemical evidence for interaction between oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle in the origin of Cenozoic continental basalts in east-central China

    Jun-Jun Zhang;Yong-Fei Zheng;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Developing plate tectonics theory from oceanic subduction zones to collisional orogens

    YongFei Zheng;YiXiang Chen;LiQun Dai;ZiFu Zhao

  • Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

    Yongfei Zheng;Zheng Xu;Zifu Zhao;Liqun Dai

  • Remelting of subducted continental lithosphere: Petrogenesis of Mesozoic magmatic rocks in the Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt

    ZiFu Zhao;YongFei Zheng

  • Experimental melts from crustal rocks: A lithochemical constraint on granite petrogenesis

    Peng Gao;Yong–Fei Zheng;Zi–Fu Zhao

  • Postcollisional magmatism: Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of Mesozoic granitoids in the Sulu orogen, China

    Juan Zhang;Zi-Fu Zhao;Yong-Fei Zheng;Mengning Dai

  • Post-collisional granitoids from the Dabie orogen in China: Zircon U–Pb age, element and O isotope evidence for recycling of subducted continental crust

    Zi-Fu Zhao;Yong-Fei Zheng;Chun-Sheng Wei;Yuan-Bao Wu

  • Oxygen isotope equilibrium between eclogite minerals and its constraints on mineral Sm-Nd chronometer

    Yong-Fei Zheng;Zheng-Rong Wang;Shu-Guang Li;Zi-Fu Zhao

  • Zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotope compositions of migmatite from the North Dabie terrane in China: constraints on partial melting

    Y.-B. Wu;Y.-B. Wu;Y.-B. Wu;Y.-F. Zheng;Y.-F. Zheng;S.-B. Zhang;Z.-F. Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong-Fei Zheng
Yong-Fei Zheng University of Science and Technology of China
Yuan-Bao Wu
Yuan-Bao Wu China University of Geosciences
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ren-Xu Chen
Ren-Xu Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Yue-Heng Yang
Yue-Heng Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shan Gao
Shan Gao China University of Geosciences
Jin-Hui Yang
Jin-Hui Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lie-Wen Xie
Lie-Wen Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roger H. Mitchell
Roger H. Mitchell Lakehead University
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison

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