Bei Chen

Technical Officer - SHRIMP

2016 - 2022: 

Ph.D

Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

Thesis: Growth of the Preserved Continental Crust: Integrated U-Pb, O, and Hf Isotopic Systematics of Detrital Zircons from Australia and Antarctica.

2013 - 2016:

M.S. in Geochemistry

State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research highlights: Cenozoic magmatic rocks in the Yunnan area, Eastern Tibet.

2009 - 2013:

B.S. in Geology

Colloge of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, China

Research Highlights: The Study of Paleoarchean Granitic Rocks and Their Fabric Feature in Taili Area, Liaoning Province.

 

Research interests

1. Growth of the presented continental crust using an integration data of U-Pb, O and Lu-Hf isotopes of detrital zircons. 

2. Oxygen isotopic variations of the Archean zircon.

3. Water contents in zircons.

4. Early Archean Crust evolution in Antarctica.

Groups

Chen, B. (2022). Growth of the Preserved Continental Crust: Integrated U-Pb, O, and Hf Isotopic Systematics of Detrital Zircons from Australia and Antarctica. Thesis (PhD).

Zhu, Z., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C.M., Brocks, J.J., Chen, B. (2022). The temporal distribution of Earth's supermountains and their potential link to the rise of atmospheric oxygen and biological evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 580, 117391.

Chen, B., Long, X.P., Wilde, S.A., Yuan, C., Wang, Q., Xia, X.P. and Zhang, Z.F. (2017). Delamination of lithospheric mantle evidenced by Cenozoic potassic rocks in Yunnan, SW China: A contribution to uplift of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Lithos 284, 709-729.

Huang, Z., Long, X., Yuan, C., Sun, M., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y. and Chen, B. (2016) Detrital zircons from Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks in the Yili Block: Constraints on the affinity of microcontinents in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research 37, 39-52.

Chen, B., Long, X.P., Yuan, C., Wang, Y.J., Sun, M., Xiao, W.J., Cai, K. and Huang, Z.Y. (2015) Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Ordovician-Early Devonian gneissic granites in the Kumishi area, northern margin of the South Tianshan Belt: Constraints on subduction process of the South Tianshan Ocean. J. Asian Earth Sci. 113, 293-309.

Huang, Z., Long, X., Kröner, A., Yuan, C., Wang, Y., Chen, B. and Zhang, Y. (2015) Neoproterozoic granitic gneisses in the Chinese Central Tianshan Block: Implications for tectonic affinity and Precambrian crustal evolution. Precambrian Res. 269, 73-89.