Research Interests

·  Magmatic, tectonic, and topographic evolution of ancient orogenic belts

·  Crust-mantle circulations and interactions

Projects

·  National Key R&D Program of China, Key Special Project on Transformative Technologies for Key Scientific Issues, Development and Innovation of Refractory Element and Isotope Analytical Techniques and Their Applications in Geosciences, 2020-2025, participant.

·  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Program, Cretaceous Continental Scientific Drilling in China: Paleoenvironmental Records and Paleoclimate Evolution, 2017-2022, participant.

·  National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, Petrogenesis of Granites in Shannan, Southern Lhasa Terrane, and Their Geodynamic Implications, 2018.01-2018.12 principal investigator.

Publications

1. Peer-reviewed publications:

[10] Zhang, L.Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Liu, X.J., Yang, X.L., Zhang, Z., Zhang, M., Zeng, Y.C., Zattin, M., 2025. Continental crustal growth in the post-collisional setting: Insights from the Late Triassic high-Mg andesites in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. GSA Bulletin, 137 (3-4): 1521-1537. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37578.1

[9] Zhang, L.Y., Chen, Q., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Liu, X.J., Zhang, Z., Zeng, Y.C., Yang, X.L., Zhang, Y.T., Zhang, M., Tian, Y., Li, M.J., 2022. Triassic volcanism on the North margin of the North China Craton: Insights for lithospheric modification during closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean. Lithos, 434-435(April), 106918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106918

[8] Zhang, L.Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Zeng, Y.C., Gong, X.H., Zhang, Z., 2019. Petrogenesis and Geochemistry of Meso⁃Cenozoic Granitic Rocks and Implication of Crustal Structure Changes in Shannan Area, Southern Tibet, Earth Science, 44(6),1822-1833. https://doi.org/10.3799/dqkx.2018.385  

[7] Yang, X.L., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Liu, X.J., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, Z., Xu, B.Y., Zhang, M., Zeng, Y.C., Liu, Q., Lv, M.D., 2024. Paleo-Pacific Plate Rollback Triggered Early Cretaceous Intermediate-Felsic Magmatism in the Northern North China Craton, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 259: 105873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105873

[6] Zhang, Z., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Li, X.Y., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, M., Yang, X.L., Zeng, Y.C., and Liu, Q., 2023. Development of Songliao Basin by Palaeo‐Pacific Slab Rollback: Evidence from Early Cretaceous Rhyolites in SK2 Borehole, NE China, Geological Journal, 58(4), 1342-65.  https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4662

[5] Zhang, Z., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Zeng, Y.C., Zhang, L.Y., Yang X.L., Zhang M., 2022. Discovery and geological implications of the Early Cretaceous basaltic andesites in SK2 borehole, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 38(6), 1756-1770. https://doi.org/10.18654/1000-0569/2022.06.14 

[4] Huang, F., Zhang, Z., Xu, J.F., Li, X.Y., Zeng, Y.C., Xu, R., Liu, X.J., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, M., Yang, C.Q., Zhang, L.L, Yu, H.X., Yang, X.L., 2021. Lithospheric extension in response to subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate: Insights from Early Jurassic intraplate volcanic rocks in the Sk2 Borehole, Songliao Basin, NE China, Lithos, 380-381, 105871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Lithos.2020.105871  

[3] Zhang, Y.T., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Zeng, Y.C., Wang, B.D., Lv, M.D., Zhang, L., Li, M.J., Zhang, Z., Tian, Y., Liu, Q., Zhang, L.Y., 2023. Origin of the volcanic rocks in Dianzhong Formation, central Lhasa Terrane, Tibet: implication for the genesis of syn-collisional magmatism and Neo-Tethyan slab roll-back. International Geology Review, 65(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2022. 2031314

[2] Yang, C., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Zeng, Y.C., Liu, Q., Liu, X.J., Yu, H.X., Tian, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, Y.T., Wen, Y.Q., 2022. Crustal reworking and growth during India-Asia continental collision: Insights from early Cenozoic granitoids in the central Lhasa Terrane, Tibet. Geological Journal, 57(1):79-98. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4284

[1] Tian, Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Wang, B.D., Liu, H., Zeng, Y.C., Liu, X.J., Yang C.Q., Yu, H.X., Wen, Y.Q., Zhang, Z., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, Y.T., 2020. Neo-Tethyan slab tearing constrained by Palaeocene N-MORB-like magmatism in southern Tibet. Geological Journal, 56(1), 205-23. https://doi.org/10.  1002/gj.3937

2.Published conference abstracts:

Zhang, L.Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Olivetti, V., Cattò, S., Jiao, X.Q., Peng, H., and Zattin M., 2023. Denudation history of Great Xing’an Range, Northeast China: geochronological constrains on Mesozoic magmatic rocks. 18th International Conference on Thermochronology. September 2023, Riva del Garda, Italy.

Zhang, L.Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., and Liu X.J., 2023. Post-Collision Extension in the Eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Insight from the Late Triassic High-Mg Andesites. EGU General Assembly. April 2023, Vienna, Austria.

Zhang, L.Y., Huang, F., Xu, J.F., Zeng, Y.C., Gong, X.H., Zhang, Z., 2018. Petrogenesis and Geochemistry of Meso⁃Cenozoic Granitic Rocks and Implication of Crustal Structure Changes in Shannan Area, Southern Tibet. Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union. October 2018, Beijing, China.