China

Daidu Fan

• Associate Professor
• Marine Geology

Tongji University
School of Ocean and Earth Science
1239 Siping Road
Shanghai 200092
China
ddfan@mail.tongji.edu.cn

Education

• B.S. China University of Geosciences, 1994, Earth Science
• Ph.D. Tongji University, 2001, Marine Geology

Research Interests

• Coastal sedimentology - developing basic sedimentation models for interpreting ancient sedimentary deposits, particularly tidal deposits
• Paleo-tempestology - developing long-term records of intense storms from sedimentary and documentary archives
• Stratigraphic records of Late Quaternary environmental change
• Zircon Chronology - tracing evolution of source-to-sink systems, especially the evolution of the Yangtze River drainage basin since the Cenozoic India-Eurasia collision and the Tibet Plateau uplift

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Xiumian Hu, Associate Professor, Sedimentologist

Nanjing University
Department of Earth Sciences
Nanjing 210093
China
huxm@nju.edu.cn

Education

• B.Sc., Chengdu Institute of Technology, 1996, Geosciences
• M.Sc., Chengdu University of Technology, 1999, Geology
• Ph.D., Chengdu University of Technology, 2002, Geology

Research Interests

• Major geological events and their sedimentary response
• Oceanic red beds and black shales through geological time
• Mesozoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoceanography, palaeoclimatology, and source rocks on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas
• Geological evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet
• Tehtys Ocean evolution