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Name  
 LYU Gang
Title  
   Associate Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geodynamics
Phone  
   010-82998659
Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   010-62010846
Email  
   lvgang[a]mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
My research interest is to understand how upper mantle dynamics work with the help of numerical modeling. I do forward modeling using finite element, finite difference methods.
My research topics include subduction initiation before plate tectonics started, intraplate extension/compression, and magmatism at passive margins. I investigated the mechanism how asthenospheric mantle flow drives overlying lithosphere through basal traction.
From this study, I found that the basal traction force is independent on the viscosity of the asthenosphere, refreshing the knowledge on the coupling between asthenosphere and lithosphere.

Research Interests：

Subduction/orogeny processes; magma dynamics at passive margins
Public Services：

Honors：

Supported Projects：
  • Numerical modeling on mechanism of low-angle detachment fault and its polarity of metamorphic core complex—examples from North China. National natural Science Funds of China.

Publications：
  1. Lu, G., L. Zhao, T. Zheng, et al., 2016. Determing the key conditions for the formation of metamorphic core complexes by geodynamic modeling and insights into the destruction of North China Craton. Sci China Earth Sci, 59, 1873-1884.  
  2. Lu, G., B.J.P. Kaus, L. Zhao, et al., 2015. Self-consistent subduction initiation induced by mantle flow. Terra Nova, 27, 130-138. 
  3. Lu, G., L. Zhao, T. Zheng, et al., 2014. Strong intracontinental lithospheric deformation in South China: Implications from seismic observation and geodynamic modeling. J. Asian Earth Sci, 86, 106-116. 
  4. Lu, G., B.J.P. Kaus, L. Zhao, 2011. Thermal localization as a potential mechanism to rift cratons. Phys Earth Planet Sci, 186, 125-137.  
 
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