Emeritus Professor
Zheng-Xiang Li
FAA
Zheng-Xiang Li is a world-renowned geoscientist whose work transcends disciplinary boundaries and has led to paradigm shifts in our understanding of how the Earth's engine works. This is important because it catalyses the formation of deep Earth resources as well as climate and environmental changes. He played prominent roles in the discovery of the periodical occurrences of two pre-Pangea global supercontinents, Rodinia and Nuna, pushing our knowledge of global palaeogeography back to 2,000 million years. He also co-developed the dynamic supercontinent-superplume geodynamic model, addressing the driving forces of plate tectonics, and he also constructed innovative tectonic models for Australia and the West Pacific.
Fields of research
37 EARTH SCIENCES-
3705
GEOLOGY
- 370511 Structural geology and tectonics
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3706
GEOPHYSICS
- 370604 Geodynamics
- 370607 Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- Geodynamics
- Earth Sciences
- Plate Tectonics
- Geophysics
- Paleomagnetism
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Geochronology
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