Research interest 

● Accretionary orogenic belt

● Theoretical studies on tectonic facies

Education

2011  Ph.D.   Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Beijing

2006  B.S.     China University of Geology (Wuhan), Wuhan

Courses

● Regional geology and tectonics

An overview of the structures and compositions as well as the states of the Earth’s lithosphere. Topics include regional geology of different plates, the history of geology, the plate tectonic theory and different tectonic unit, especially the analysis of the tectonic facies.

Selected publications

Guo, Q.Q., Xiao, W.J., Mao, Q.G., Windley, B.F., Han, C.M., Qu, J.F., Ao, S.J., Cleven, N.R., Lin, S.F., Li, J.L., Yong, Y., and Song, D.F., 2012, Provenance and tectonic settings of Permian turbidites from the Beishan Mountains, NW China: Implications for the Late Paleozoic accretionary tectonics of the southern Altaids: Journal of Asian Earth Science, v. 49, p. 54-68.

Li, S., Wang, T., Wilde, S.A., Tong, Y., Hong, D. and Guo, Q., 2012, Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Triassic granitoids from Beishan, NW China: Lithos, v. 134–135, p. 123-145.

Zhang, J.E., Xiao, W.J., Han, C.M., Mao, Q.G., Ao, S.J., Guo, Q.Q., and Ma, C., 2011, A Devonian to Carboniferous intra-oceanic subduction system in Western Junggar, NW China: Lithos, v. 125, p. 592-606.

Xiao, W.J., Mao, Q.G., Windley, B.F., Qu, J.F., Zhang, J.E., Ao, S.J., Guo, Q.Q., Cleven, N.R., Lin, S.F., Shan, Y.H., and Li, J.L., 2010, Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional processes of the Beishan orogenic collage: American Journal of Science, v. 310, p. 1553-1594.