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Name  
ZHAO Lei
Title  
  Associate Professor
Highest Education  
  Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
  Geology
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  010-82998130
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  100029
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  010-62010846
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  zhaolei[a]mail.iggcas.ac.cn
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  No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments:

Dr. Lei Zhao, Associated Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Education 

  • 2012.9-2014.12: PhD student of IGGCAS
  • 2009.9-2012.6: Master student of Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

Professional Appointments 

  • 2017.1-Presnet: Associated professor of IGGCAS
  • 2015.1-2017.1: Postdoc of Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS)
 

Research Interests:
  1. Metamorphic Petrology 
  2. Zircon Geochronology 
  3. Precambrian Geology
Public Services:

Honors:

Supported Projects:
  1. Multiple metamorphism and tectonic implications of the Paleoproterozoic Badu Complex in Northeastern Cathaysia Block 
  2. Paleozoic metamorphism, geochronology of the Chencai Comoplex in Cathaysia Block 
  3. Indosinian retrograded eclogite and granulite discovered from the Badu Complex and their tectonic implications.
  4. Study on the metamorphic evolution and re-establishment of the P-T-t path of the ultra-high temperature granulites in Sri Lanka

Publications:

   2022年

  1. Huang, G., Chen, Y., Guo, J., Palin, R. & Zhao, L., 2022. Nb and Ta intracrustal differentiation during granulite-facies metamorphism: Evidence from geochemical data of natural rocks and thermodynamic modeling. American Mineralogist 107, 2020-2033.
  2. Zou, Y., Chu, X., Wu, J. & Zhao, L., 2022. No evidence for Archean eclogite-facies metamorphism. PNAS 119, e2208090119.
  3. Zhao, L., Zhai, M. & Zhou, X. (2022). Formation of an intracontinental orogen above the Permo-Triassic mantle convection cell in the Paleo-Tethys tectonic realm due to far-field stress derived from continental margins. Frontiers in Earth Science, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.892787.
  4. Zhang, R., Zhai, M. & Zhao, L.,* 2022. Correlating metamorphic mineral assemblages with metamorphic ages in rocks recording multiple tectonothermal events: A case study of the Jiaobei terrane, eastern North China Craton. Precambrian Research 377, 106731.
  5. 邹屹, 陈俊行, 吴佳林, 赵磊, 李秋立, 翟明国, 2022. 变质地质学中的扩散:原理、前沿应用和问题. 岩石学报 38, 2949-2970.

    2021年:
  6. 赵磊, 张艳斌, Malaviarachchi, S.P.K., Dharmapriya, P.L., 翟明国, 2021. 斯里兰卡地质演化研究的进展与评述:岩石组合、变质演化及其与冈瓦纳大陆的关系. 岩石学报 37, 1287-1320.
  7. Zhao, L., Zhai, M.-G., Zhang, X.-H., Zhang, Y.-B., Peng, P., Li, Q.-L., 2021. A brief review of the Precambrian geology of the northern Korean Peninsula. Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 57, 437-466.
  8. Zhang, Y.-B., Zhai, M.-G., Wu, F.-Y., Zhang, X.-H., Li, Q.-L., Peng, P., Zhao, L., Zhou, L.-G., 2021. Reviews on the Paleozoic-Mesozoic granitoids and sedimentary rocks in North Korea. Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 57, 523-544.
  9. Chen, M., Jiao, S., Zou, Y., Zhao, L., Liu, B., Li, Q., Zhai, M., 2021. Zircon and monazite petrochronology studies reveal Mesozoic amphibolite-facies metamorphism overprinting Paleoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphism: A case study from Rangnim Massif, North Korea. Lithos 398-399.
  10. Zhai, M., Zhao, L., Zhu, X., Zhou, Y., Peng, P., Guo, J., Li, Q., Zhao, T., Lu, J., Li, X., 2021. Late Neoarchean magmatic-metamorphic event and crust stabilization in the North China Craton. American Journal of Science 321, 206-234.
  11. Wang, X., Oh, C.W., Wang, X., Zhai, M., Zhao, L., 2021. The?~?1.87?Ga granulite facies metamorphism of the South Liaohe Group in the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt and its tectonic implications. Lithos 392-393, 106081.
  12. Zhang, D., O'Brien, P.J., Schertl, H.-P., Ma, X., Tian, Z., Zhao, L., Guo, J., 2021. Metamorphic and geochronological evolution of Paleoproterozoic high-pressure ultra-high-temperature pelitic granulite, Chicheng, northern Trans-North China Orogen. Precambrian Research 361.
  13. Zhang, Y.-B., Zhai, M.-G., Wu, F.-Y., Zhang, X.-H., Li, Q.-L., Peng, P., Zhao, L., Zhou, L.-G., 2021. In situ zircon U Pb dating of Jurassic granitoids in North Korea and its tectonic implications. Lithos 398-399.
  14. Zou, Y., Li, Q., Chu, X., Zhai, M., Mitchell, R.N., Zhao, L., Zhou, L., Wang, Y., Liu, B., 2021. Older orogens cooled slower: new constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 176.

    2020年:
  15. Li, Y., Li, Q.-L., Tang, G.-Q., Gargano, A., Sharp, Z., Pitawala, A., Zhao, L., Zhai, M.-G., Li, X.-H., 2020. Eppawala-AP, Sri Lanka, an apatite reference material for high precision chlorine isotope analysis. Atomic Spectroscopy 41, 51-56.
  16. Zhai, M., Zhu, X., Zhou, Y., Zhao, L., Zhou, L., 2020. Continental crustal evolution and synchronous metallogeny through time in the North China Craton. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 194, 104169.
  17. Zhao, L., Zhai, M.G., Nutman, A., Oh, C., Bennett, V.C., Zhang, Y., 2020. Archean basement components and metamorphic overprints of the Rangnim Massif in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and tectonic implications for the Sino-Korean Craton. Precambrian Research, 344, 10753.
  18. Zou, Y., Zhai, M., Mitchell, R.N., Zhao, L., Zhou, L., Liu, B., Wang, Y., Chen, M., 2020. Discovery of kyanite in typically cordierite/sillimanite-bearing low- to medium-pressure pelitic granulites from the Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton. Precambrian Research 342, 105677.
  19. Zhao, L., Zhang, R.-C., Zhai, M.-G., Zhou, X.-W., 2020. Major lithologies of the high-grade Zhoutan terrane within the Cathaysia Block and their tectonic implications for the Neoproterozoic - Paleozoic South China. Lithos 372-373, 105664.
  20. Zou, Y., Chu, X., Li, Q.L., Mitchell, R.N., Zhai, M., Zou, X., Zhao, L., Wang, Y., Liu, B., 2020. Local rapid exhumation and fast cooling in a long-lived Paleoproterozoic orogeny. Journal of Petrology egaa091, doi.org /10.1093 /petrology /egaa1091.
  21. Wang, X., Oh, C.W., Peng, P., Zhao, L., Zhai, M., Lee, S.H., 2020. Petrogenesis of ~2.1 Ga mafic and granitic magmatism and tectonic implication of Jiaobei Terrane in North China Craton. Lithos 378-379, 105806.
  22. Pahan Abewardana, P.L. Dharmapriya, Sanjeewa P.K. Malaviarachi, Lei Zhao, 2020. Major element geochemistry of charnockitic rocks in Highland and Wanni Complexes of Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress, Sri Lanka, 2020.
  23. Pahan Abewardana, P.L. Dharmapriya, Sanjeewa P.K. Malaviarachi, Lei Zhao, 2020. Major element geochemistry of charnockitic rocks in Highland and Wanni Complexes of Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress, Sri Lanka, 2020.
  24. B. Spiering, Lei Zhao, Imanthika Rathnayake, P.L. Dharmapriya, Pahan Abewardana, 2020. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and provenance analysis of sedimentary succession around Aruwakkalu, Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress, Sri Lanka, 2020.
  25. Pahan, Abewardana, P.L. Dharmapriya, Sanjeewa P.K. Malaviarachchi, Lei Zhao, 2020. Rare Earth Elements in magmatic and metamorphic zircon of charnockite in Sri Lanka: implications for tectonic setting and nature of the source magma. Proceedings of the 36th Technical Session of Geological Society of Sri Lanka, 2020
  26. Lei Xu, Jin-Hui Yang, Hao Wang, Lei Zhao, Ming-Guo Zhai, 2020. Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous high-MgO diorites and granitoids in the Rangnim Massif, North Korea: implications for tectonic setting of magmatism and gold mineralization, Goldschmidt, 2020.


    2019

  27. Liu, B., Zhai, M.-G., Zhao, L., Cui, X.-H., 2019. Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope studies of the early Precambrian metasedimentary rocks in the Kongling terrane of the Yangtze Block, South China. Precambrian Research 320, 334-349.
  28. Zhao, L., Cui, X., Zhai, M., Zhou, X., Liu, B., 2019. Emplacement and metamorphism of the mafic rocks from the Chencai terrane within the Cathaysia Block: Implications for the Paleozoic orogenesis of the South China Block. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 173, 11-28.
  29. Oliveira, E.P., Talavera, C., Windley, B.F., Zhao, L., Semprich, J.J., McNaughton, N.J., Amaral, W.S., Sombini, G., Navarro, M., Silva, D., 2019. Mesoarchaean (2820?Ma) high-pressure mafic granulite at Uauá, S?o Francisco Craton, Brazil, and its potential significance for the assembly of Archaean supercratons. Precambrian Research 331, 105336.
  30. Liu, B., Zhai, M.-G., Zhao, L., Cui, X.-H., 2019. Metamorphism, P-T path and zircon U-Pb dating of Paleoproterozoic mafic and felsic granulites from the Kongling terrane, South China. Precambrian Research 333, 105403.
  31. Zou, Y., Zhai, M., Zhou, L., Zhao, L., Lu, J., Wang, Y., Shan, H., 2019. Relics of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: New petrological, phase equilibria and geochronological studies on high-pressure pelitic granulites from the Pingdu-Laiyang areas, southwest of the Jiaobei terrane, North China Craton. Precambrian Research 322, 136-159.
  32. Zhai, M., Zhang, X.-H., Zhang, Y.-B., Wu, F.-Y., Peng, P., Li, Q.-L., Li, Z., Guo, J., Li, T.-S., Zhao, L., Zhou, L.-G., Zhu, X., 2019. The geology of North Korea: An overview. Earth-Science Reviews 194, 57-96.

    2018
  33. Lei Zhao, Xiwen Zhou, Mingguo Zhai, Bo Liu, Xiahong Cui, 2018. Petrographic and zircon U–Pb geochronological characteristics of the pelitic granulites from the Badu Complex of the Cathaysia Block, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 158, 65-79.
  34. Zhao, Lei, Liu, Bo, Nutman, A.P., Zhai, Mingguo, Zhou, Xiwen, Cui, Xiahong, 2018. Integrated Zircon U-Pb-O-Hf and Whole-Rock Sm-Nd Studies of Paleozoic Amphibolites in the Chencai Area of the Cathaysia Block, South China. The Journal of Geology 126, 621-637.
  35. Zou, Y., Zhai, M., Santosh, M., Zhou, L., Zhao, L., Lu, J., Liu, B., Shan, H., 2018. Contrasting P-T-t paths from a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic orogen: Petrology, phase equilibria, zircon and monazite geochronology of metapelites from the Jiao-Liao-Ji belt, North China Craton. Precambrian Research 311, 74-97.
  36. Cui, X.-H., Zhai, M.-G., Guo, J.-H., Zhao, L., Zhu, X.-Y., Wang, H.-Z., Huang, G.-Y., Ge, S.-S., 2018. Field occurrences and Nd isotopic characteristics of the meta -mafic-ultramafic rocks from the Caozhuang Complex, eastern Hebei: Implications for early Archean crustal evolution of the North China Craton. Precambrian Research 310, 425-442.


    2017

  37. Zhao, Lei, Zhai, Mingguo, Santosh, M., Zhou, Xiwen, 2017. Early Mesozoic retrograded eclogite and mafic granulite from the Badu Complex of the Cathaysia Block, South China: Petrology and tectonic implications. Gondwana Research 42, 84-103. 
  38. Lu, J.-S., Zhai, M.-G., Lu, L.-S., Zhao, L., 2017. P-T-t evolution of Neoarchaean to Paleoproterozoic pelitic granulites from the Jidong terrane, eastern North China Craton. Precambrian Research 290, 1-15. 
  39. Zou, Y., Zhai, M., Santosh, M., Zhou, L., Zhao, L., Lu, J., Shan, H., 2017. High-pressure pelitic granulites from the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, North China Craton: A complete P-T path and its tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 134, 103-121.
  40. Zhou, L.-G., Zhai, M.-g., Lu, J.-S., Zhao, L., Wang, H.-Z., Wu, J.-L., Liu, B., Zou, Y., Shan, H.-X., Cui, X.-H., 2017. Paleoproterozoic metamorphism of high-grade granulite facies rocks in the North China Craton: Study advances, questions and new issues. Precambrian Research 303, 520-547.
  41. Du, L., Yang, C., Wyman, D.A., Nutman, A.P., Zhao, L., Lu, Z., Song, H., Geng, Y., Ren, L., 2017. Zircon U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotope compositions from clastic rocks in the Hutuo Group: Further constraints on Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen. Precambrian Research 303, 291-314.
  42. Wu, J., Zhang, H., Zhai, M., Guo, J., Li, R., Wang, H., Zhao, L., Jia, X., Wang, L., Hu, B., Zhang, H., 2017. Paleoproterozoic high-pressure-high-temperature pelitic granulites from Datong in the North China Craton and their geological implications: Constraints from petrology and phase equilibrium modeling. Precambrian Research 303, 727-748.

    2016 
  43. Wang, H.-Z., Zhang, H.-F., Zhai, M.-G., Oliveira, E.P., Ni, Z.-Y., Zhao, L., Wu, J.-L., Cui, X.-H., 2016. Granulite facies metamorphism and crust melting in the Huai’an terrane at 1.95Ga, North China Craton: New constraints from geology, zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf isotope and metamorphic conditions of granulites. Precambrian Research 286, 126-151. 
  44. Du, L., Yang, C., Wyman, D.A., Nutman, A.P., Lu, Z., Song, H., Xie, H., Wan, Y., Zhao, L., Geng, Y., Ren, L., 2016. 2090–2070Ma A-type granitoids in Zanhuang Complex: Further evidence on a Paleoproterozoic rift-related tectonic regime in the Trans-North China Orogen. Lithos 254-255, 18-35. 
  45. Du, L., Yang, C., Wyman, D.A., Nutman, A.P., Lu, Z., Song, H., Zhao, L., Geng, Y., Ren, L., 2016. Age and depositional setting of the Paleoproterozoic Gantaohe Group in Zanhuang Complex: Constraints from zircon U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes of sandstones and dacite. Precambrian Research 286, 59-100. 
  46. Zhai, M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Wu, F., Peng, P., Li, Q., Hou, Q., Li, T., Zhao, L., 2016. Renewed profile of the Mesozoic magmatism in Korean Peninsula: Regional correlation and broader implication for cratonic destruction in the North China Craton. Science China Earth Sciences, 59, 2355-2388. 
  47. Wu, J.-L., Zhang, H.-F., Zhai, M.-G., Guo, J.-H., Liu, L., Yang, W.-Q., Wang, H.-Z., Zhao, L., Jia, X.-L., Wang, W., 2016. Pelitic high-pressure granulite from the Huai’an Complex, North China Craton: Metamorphic P-T evolution and geological implications. Precambrian Research 278, 323-336. 
  48. Zhao, Lei, Zhu, Xiwen, Zhai, Mingguo, 2016. Major Advances in the Study of the Precambrian Geology and Metallogenesis of the North China Craton: A Review. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 90, 1122-1155. 
  49. Zhao, Lei, Zhai, Mingguo, Zhou, Xiwen, Santosh, M., Ma, Xudong, 2016. Thermal gradient and geochronology of a Paleozoic high-grade terrane in the northeastern Cathaysia block, South China. Tectonophysics 691, 311-327.  

    2015 
  50. Zhao, Lei, Zhou, Xiwen, Zhai, Mingguo, Santosh, M., Geng, Yuansheng, 2015. Zircon U-Th-Pb-Hf isotopes of the basement rocks in northeastern Cathaysia block, South China: implications for Phanerozoic multiple metamorphic reworking of a Paleoproterozoic terrane. Gondwana Research 28, 246-261. 
  51. Zhao, Lei, Li, Tiesheng, Peng, Peng, Guo, Jinhui, Wang, Wei, Wang, Haozheng, Santosh, M., Zhai, Mingguo, 2015. Anatomy of zircon growth in high pressure granulites: SIMS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotopes from the Jiaobei Terrane, eastern North China Craton. Gondwana Research 28, 1373-1390. 
  52. Zhao, Lei, Zhai, Mingguo, Zhou, Xiwen, Santosh, M., Ma, Xudong, 2015. Geochronology and geochemistry of a suite of mafic rocks in Chencai area, South China: Implications for petrogenesis and tectonic setting. Lithos 236-237, 226-244.  
  53. Lilin Du, Chonghui Yang, Derek A. Wyman, Allen P. Nutman, Zenglong Lu, Lei Zhao, Wei Wang, Huixia Song, Yusheng Wan, Liudong Ren, Yuansheng Geng. 2015. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the iron-rich tholeiitic basalts in the Hutuo Group of the Wutai Mountains, Central Trans-North China Orogen. Precambrian Research 271, 225-242. 

    2014 
  54. Zhao, Lei, Zhou, Xiwen, Zhai, Mingguo, Santosh, M., Ma, Xudong, Shan, Houxiang, Cui, Xiahong, 2014. Paleoproterozoic tectonic transition from collision to extension in the eastern Cathaysia Block, South China: Evidence from geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Nd–Hf isotopes of a granite–charnockite suite in southwestern Zhejiang. Lithos 184-187, 259-280.  
  55. Wang Wei, Zhai Mingguo, Tao Youbing, M. Santosh, Lv Bin, Zhao, Lei, Wang Shijin, 2014. Late Neoarchean crustal evolution of the eastern North China Craton: A study on the provenance and metamorphism of paragneiss from the Western Shandong ProvinceOriginal Research Article. Precambrian Research 255, 583-602. 
  56. Wang Wei, Zhai Mingguo, Li Tiesheng, Santosh M., Zhao, Lei, Wang Haozheng, 2014. Archean–Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in the eastern North China Craton: Zircon U–Th–Pb and Lu–Hf evidence from the Jiaobei terrane. Precambrian Research, 241, 146-160. 
  57. Zhang Huafeng, Zhai Mingguo, Santosh M., Wang Haozheng, Zhao, Lei, Ni Zhiyao, 2014. Paleoproterozoic granulites from the Xinghe graphite mine, North China Craton: Geology, zircon U–Pb geochronology and implications for the timing of deformation, mineralization and metamorphism. Ore Geology Reviews, 63, 478-497. 

    2013 
  58. Du, Lilin Yang Chonghui, Wang Wei, Ren Liudong, Wan Yusheng, Wu Jiashan, Zhao, Lei, Song Huixia, Geng Yuansheng, Hou Kejun, 2013. Paleoproterozoic rifting of the North China Craton: Geochemical and zircon Hf isotopic evidence from the 2137Ma Huangjinshan A-type granite porphyry in the Wutai area. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 72, 190-202. 
  59. Liu, Jianhui Liu Fulai, Ding Zhengjiang, Yang Hong, Liu Chaohui, Liu Pinghua, Xiao Lingling, Zhao, Lei, Geng Jianzhen, 2013. U–Pb dating and Hf isotope study of detrital zircons from the Zhifu Group, Jiaobei Terrane, North China Craton: Provenance and implications for Precambrian crustal growth and recycling. Precambrian Research, 235, 230-250. 
 
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