Courses
●Applied Geophysics
A course of the mathematical physics principle and field apply as well as data interpretation of geophysical investigation methods. Topics include gravity and magnetic potential field measurement, electromagnetic investigation, seismic exploration, geothermal prospecting, and radioactivity probing. These methods are used by geologists, hydrologists and reservoir, soils and geotechnical engineers to locate the distribution of physical properties having economic or engineering importance beneath the surface of the earth.
●Marine Geophysics and Ocean Floor Tectonics
An overview of geological processes and its geophysical theory in marginal sea and ocean floor tectonics. This course would emphasize on marine geophysical observations methods, and the oceanic crust structure characteristics, as well as the plate boundary geological activity.
●Seminar: Advances in Geophysical Exploration-the specific methodology and technology
A seminar for graduates to enhance theirs technical innovation ability in applied geophysics. Some specific geophysical investigation problem and the recent advances of applied geophysics would be discussing in this course.
Selected publications
Gao Xiang, Zhang Jian, et al. A simulation Study on the thermal structure of Manila trench subduction zone. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Vol.55, No.1, 117-125, 2012.
ZHANG Jian, LI Jia-Biao. Gravity inversion and thermal modeling for the crust-mantle structure of the Southwest subbasin in the South China Sea. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Vol.54, No.6, 907-920, 2011.
Yu Jinbo, Zhang Jian, et al. A study on tectono-thermal evolution history of Bachu uplift in Tarim basin. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Vol.53, No.10, 2396-2404, 2010.
Chen Shi, Zhang Jian. Lithospheric thermal isostasy research of the north continental margin of South China Sea. Journal of Earth Science, Vol.20, No.1, 27-35, 2009.
Chen Shi, Zhang Jian, Gravity inversion using the frequency characteristics of the density distribution， APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 5(2), 99-106, 2008.
Zhang Jian, Shi Yaolin. Analysis of the non-monotony cooling on the thermal evolution history of Venus. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Vol.50, No.1, 138-147, 2007.
Zhang Jian, Song Haibin, Li Jiabiao. Thermal modeling of the Tectonic Evolution of the Southwest Subbasin in the South China Sea. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Vol.48, No.6, 1423-1432, 2006.
Chunming Wu, Jian Zhang, Lliudong Ren. Empirical garnet-muscovite-plagioclase-quartz geobarometry in medium- to high-grade metapelites. Lithos, 78: 319-332, 2004.
Shi Yaolin, Zhang Jian. Deep Geodynamics of Far Field Back-arc Extension – Formation of Cenozoic Volcanoes in Northeast China. ACTA Seismologica Sinica, Vol.17, 1-8, 2004.
JIAN Zhang, Chi-Yuen Wang, Yaolin Shi, Yongen Cai. 3D Crustal Structure of Central Taiwan from Gravity Inversion with Parallel Genetic Algorithm. Geophysics, Vol.69, No.4, 917-924, 2004.
Zhang Jian, Shi yaolin. Deep tectono thermal mechanism for the tectonic extension of the Eastern Asian continental margin. Geotectonica et Metallogenia, Vol.27, No.1, 156-164, 2003.
