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Name：Lin Ding
Title & Affiliation：Ph.D, Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Education and Appointments

Dr. Ding has studied the geology of the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas over 30 years. His expertise lies in continental tectonics, structural geology, geochemistry and geochronology. His research interests focus on the processes of oceanic convergence and continental collision, uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, and uplift-related effects on Asian climate. He has been widely recognized as an expert with international influences and leading the study of Continental Collision, Tibetan Plateau Uplift and Environmental Changes.
Dr. Ding has published ～280 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 10 ESI top 0.01% - 1% papers and 38 top-journal papers in Science (1), Science Advances (2), Nature Communications (1), PNAS (2), NREE (1), Geology (14) and EPSL (17). His work was cited 22000 times. Dr. Ding was selected as the 2018-2020 Most Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier Publications. He was invited to deliver oral presentations at four international conferences, including 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, 2019 London Annual Meeting, 2013 & 2019 Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet (HKT) Workshops. 

Institution
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER)
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITPCAS)

Title
CAS member, Professor and Deputy director of ITPCAS, Director of TPESER

Major Academic Contributions
1. The India-Asia collision
Over the past three decades, Dr. Ding has investigated numerous sedimentary basins along the Yarlung Tsangbo Suture Zone (YTSZ) in Tibet (Ding et al., 2005, 2017a; Cai et al., 2011, 2012; Li et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2017, 2020), in Myanmar, and in Pakistan (Ding et al., 2016; Qasim et al., 2018). He discovered that a peripheral foreland basin system existed along the southern YZSZ, extending from the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis to the Western Himalayan Syntaxis. He proposed that the Indian-Asian continent first collided in the middle of the YZSZ (at Sangdanlin) at ~65-62 Ma, and that the collision spread diachronously eastwards (northeast India and Myanmar) and westwards (Pakistan) during ~55-50 Ma. The Sangdanlin section has been restudied by several international groups, e.g. by Peter DeCelles & Paul Kapp (DeCelles et al., 2014), Hu & Ganzanti (Hu et al., 2016), and Wu (Wu et al., 2014), and it has become a classic site for constraining the initial India-Asia collision. Ding’s work has challenged the traditional view that the initial collision first occurred in the western syntaxis at ~50 Ma and sutured diachronously eastwards, as previously suggested by many workers.
2. Paleoelevation history of the Tibetan Plateau and environmental effects
Dr. Ding has reported a number of high-quality Cenozoic paleoelevation data from across the Tibetan Plateau, such as for the Himalaya mountains (Ding et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2018), Gangdese mountains, and Tangra Yum Co in the Lhasa block (Ding et al., 2014; Xu et al., 2015), the central part of the Watershed Mountains in the Qiangtang block (Xu et al., 2013; Xiong et al., 2020), and the Longmenshan mountains in eastern Tibet (Xu et al., 2016). He proposed that the Gangdese, Qiangtang, and Himalaya attained their near-present elevations at ~56 Ma, ~50-28 Ma, and ~15 Ma, respectively. The result implies that different parts of the Tibetan Plateau grew at different times, in contrast to the previous view of an overall plateau uplift process. Based on these paleoelevation studies, he proposed that the Tibetan Plateau in the Eocene was a low-elevation valley sandwiched in between two mountains with >4,500 m elevation to the south and to the north (Ding et al., 2014). This is consistent with subsequent modeling results (Valdes et al., 2019). Ding’s work substantially improves our understanding of the paleogeographic evolution of Tibet and its potential effects on Asian climate change. His work suggests that the Gangdese Mountains played an essential role in shaping the late Paleocene–early Eocene South Asian monsoon (Ding et al., 2014). Contrast of precipitation patterns between the Himalaya-Tibet edifice and the Himalaya foreland basin for the past ~56 Ma shows that the progressive drying across southern Tibet was linked with the uplift of the Himalaya orogen (Ding et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2018).
3. The transition from oceanic to continental subduction
Based on the study of volcanic rocks in the southern Qiangtang and Lhasa terranes, Dr. Ding proposed that the transition from oceanic to continental subduction occurred in the Early Tertiary and that the front of the Indian continental lithosphere now lies beneath the southern Qiangtang Terrane (Ding et al., 2003, 2007). Following geophysics work provides the direct structural evidence of Indian continental subduction beneath Tibet and Myanmar (Zhao, et al., 2007, PNAS; Zheng et al., 2020, Nature Communications). This is a significant contribution to understanding the formation of the Tibetan Plateau and its controlling mechanism. The initial paper published in Journal of petrology (Ding et al., 2003) is ranked 6th in terms of citations among all papers published since 2003.

Education
1999  Ph.D.  Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS
1991  M.S.  Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS
1988  B.S.  School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University

Working Experience
2018  Deputy director of Academic Affairs, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS
2004  Director of CAS Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift
2003  Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS
1995  Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS

Research Interest

My expertise lies in continental tectonics, regional geology, continental collision between Eurasia and India and uplift of Tibetan Plateau. 

Selected Publications

Research Grants

1.   Leading the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Project " The Uplift and Evolution of Tibetan Plateau" funded by MOST, 2019-2024

2.    Leading the Center for basic Science project "Continental collision, subduction and impacts of plateau growth" funded by NSFC, 2020-2024

3.    Leading the International Cooperation and Exchange project "Normal Faulting, basin development, and paleoelevation in south Tibet and the evolution of the Tibetan Plateau" funded by NSFC, 2019-2022

4.    Leading the project "The collisional and uplift processes of Himalaya-Zagros orogenic belts and its effect on the southern Asian monsoon" funded by CAS, 2018-2023

5.    Leading the International Cooperation and Exchange project “Evolution of vegetation and biodiversity during Paleogene and early Neogene” funded by NSFC, 2017-2020

6.    Leading the project "Collisional orogenic process and metallogenic setting in the Tibetan plateau" funded by MOST, 2016-2020

7.    Leading the major program "Process of deformation in Himalayan syntaxis" funded by NSFC, 2015-2019

8.    Leading the project "Structural mapping in Eastern Himalaya Syntaxis" funded by Chengdu Engineering Corporation limited, 2015-2017

9.    Leading the project "Timing and suturing process between India and Asia continents" funded by CAS, 2012-2017

10.  Leading the project "Continental convergence process and metallogenic setting in the southern Tibetan plateau" funded by MOST, 2011-2015

11.  Leading the project "3D animation of uplift of Tibetan Plateau" funded by CAS, 400 000 RMB, 2011-2013

12.  Leading the CAS “Structural Geology" funded by CAS, 2011-2011

13.  Leading the project "Deformation and Environmental change in Pamir Plateau" funded by CAS, 2010-2013

14.  Leading the project "Formation of Tibetan Plateau and related environmental impacts and 3D movie" funded by MOST, 2010-2012

15.  Leading the project "Magmatism and metallogenic constraints by crust-mantle interaction in Sanjiang belt" funded by CAS, 2008-2013

16.  Leading the project "Quantitative uplift of Tibetan Plateau" funded by CAS, 2008-2011

17.  Leading the project "Rift evolution and its related metallogeny in the main collision zone" funded by CAS, 2008-2010

18.  Leading the Distinguished Young Scholar project "Deformation of Orogen in Qiangtang terrane" funded by NSFC, 2007-2010

19.  Leading the project "Continental subduction and Orogen in Tibet" funded by CAS, 2005-2008

20.  Leading the project "scientific expedition of Hoh Xil" funded by China Unicom, 2005-2007

21.  Leading the project "Rift evolution and its related metallogeny in the main collision zone" funded by MOST, 2003-2008

 

Publications (Google Scholar (verified): H-index=75, Total citations: 22 442)

1.   Ding, L., Kapp, P., Cai, F.L., Garzione, C.N., Xiong, Z.Y., Wang, H.Q., Wang, C., 2022. Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00318-4.

2.   Xiong, Z., Liu, X., Ding, L.*, Farnsworth, A., Spicer, R.A., Xu, Q., Valdes, P., He, S., Zeng, D., Wang, C., Li, Z.Y., Guo, X.D., Su, T., Zhao, C.Y., Wang, H.Q., Yue, Y.H., 2022. The rise and demise of the Paleogene Central Tibetan Valley. Science advances 8 (6), eabj0944.

3.    Ding, L., Goswami, T., Cai, F.L., Baral, U., Sarmah, R.K., Bezbaruah, D., 2022. Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of Tertiary sequences (Palaeocene？Miocene): Inner Fold Belt and Belt of Schuppen, Indo-Myanmar Ranges, India. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4446.

4.   Baral, U., Ding, L., Dhital, M.R., Kumar, K.C., Li, S., 2022. Paleozoic？ Mesozoic dispersal of Gondwana: Insights from detrital zircon geochronology of Lesser Himalaya strata, eastern Nepal. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36216.1

5.   Baral, U., Ding, L., Goswami,T.K., Sarma, M., Jan, M.Q., Wang, C., Aminov, J., Muhammad Q., Devojit B., 2022. Geochemical and geochronological studies of Abor volcanic rocks of eastern Himalaya. Geological Journal 57 (2), 482-502

6.    Guo, X.D., Ding, L., Laskowski, A.K., Wang, H.Q., Baral, U., Zeng, D., Ding, X.L., Yue, Y.H., Xie, J., Cai, F.L., 2022. Provenance of Late Cretaceous accretionary complex within the Yarlung–Zangpo suture zone, Bainang, southern Tibet: Implications for the subduction–accretion of the Neo-Tethyan ocean. Gondwana Research, 106, 78-91.

7.    Khan, M.S.S., Umar, M., Pan, B., Sun, X.J., Jadoon, I.A.K., Ding, L., Zhu, M.Y., 2022. A newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate couplet from the Western Himalaya: The expansion of the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation to the northwestern margin of the Indian Plate in North Pakistan. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106759.

8.   Klemperer, S.L., Zhao, P., Whyte, C.J., Darrah, T.H., Crossey, L.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Liu, T.Z., Winn, C., Hilton, D.R., Ding, L., 2022. Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (12), e2113877119

9.    Li, G., Zhou, Y., Ding, L., Gao, Y., Bai, L., Zhang, H., Hu, L., Pan, Z., Ju, C., Zhang, D., 2022. A Partial Molten Low-Velocity Layer Atop the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath the Western Junggar: Implication for the Formation of Subduction-Induced Sub-Slab Mantle Plume. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23 (2), e2021GC010150

10.  Li, Z.Y., Ding, L., Laskowski, A.K., Burke, W.B., Chen, Y.F., Song, P.P., Yue, Y.H., Xie, J., 2022. New Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Early Cretaceous Paleolatitude of the Lhasa Terrane (Tibet). Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 785726.

11.  Li, Z.Y., Ding, L., Van Hinsbergen, D., Lippert, P.C., Yue, Y.H., Xie, J., Chen, Y.F., Guo, X.D., Zhang, D., Zhao, T.G., Wu, B.L., Li, H.J., He, S.L., 2022. Jurassic true polar wander recorded by the Lhasa terrane on its northward journey from Gondwana to Eurasia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 592, 117609.

12.  Qasim, M., Tabassum, K., Ding, L., Tanoli, J.I., Awais, M., Baral, U., 2022. Provenance of the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation, Sulaiman fold-thrust belt, Pakistan: Insight from the detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and sandstone petrography. Geological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4546.

13.  Qasim, M., Tanoli, J.I., Ahmad, L., Ding, L., Rehman, Q.U., Umber, U., 2022. First U-Pb Detrital Zircon Ages from Kamlial Formation (Kashmir, Pakistan): Tectonic Implications for Himalayan Exhumation. Minerals 12 (3), 298.

14.  Wang,C., Ding, L., Cai, F., Zhang, L., Li, Z., Yue, Y., 2022. Rifting of the Indian passive continental margin: Insights from the Langjiexue basalts in the central Tethyan Himalaya, southern Tibet. GSA Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36204.1.

15.  Wang,C., Ding, L., Cai, F., Wang, H.Q., Zhang, L., Yue, Y., 2022. Evolution of the Sumdo Paleo-Tethyan Ocean: Constraints from Permian Luobadui Formation in Lhasa terrane, South Tibet. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Accepted.

16.  Wang, L.C., Ding, L., Garzione, E., Shen, L.J., Nulay, P., Siritongkham, N., 2022. Mid-Cretaceous drainage reorganization and exorheic to endorheic transition in Southeast Tibet. Sedimentary Geology 439, 106221.

17.  Wang, L.C., Yuan, Q., Shen, L.J., Ding, L., 2022. Middle Eocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Gonjo Basin, Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence From Palynological and Evaporite Records. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.818418.

18.  Wu, C., Li, J., Zuza, A.V., Haproff, P.J., Yin, A., Ding, L., 2022. Paleoproterozoic？Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Longshou Shan, western North China craton. Geosphere. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02491.1.

19.   Zhang, D., Ding, L., Chen, Y., Schertl, H.P., Qasim, M., Jadoon, U.K., Wang, H., Li, J., Zhang, L., Yue, Y., Xie, J., 2022. Two Contrasting Exhumation Scenarios of Deeply Subducted Continental Crust in North Pakistan. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23 (2), e2021GC010193

20.  Zhang, L., Fan, W., Ding, L., Pullen, A., Ducea, M.N., Li, J., Wang, C., Xu, X., Sein, K., 2022. Forced subduction initiation within the Neotethys: An example from the mid-Cretaceous Wuntho-Popa arc in Myanmar. GSA Bulletin 134 (3-4), 849-870.

21.  Zhu, W.L., Ding, L., Ji, Y.F., Q, R., Zhu, Y., Xie, C.D., Zeng, D., 2022. Subduction Evolution Controlled Himalayan Orogenesis: Implications from 3-D Subduction Modeling. Applied Sciences 12 (15), 7413.

22.  Awais, M., Qasim, M., Tanoli, J.I., Ding, L., Sattar, M., Baig, M.S., Pervaiz, S., 2021. Detrital Zircon Provenance of the Cenozoic Sequence, Kotli, Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan; Implications for India–Asia Collision. Minerals 11 (12), 1399

23.  Burke, W.B., Laskowski, A.K., Orme, D.A., Sundell, K.E., Taylor, M.H., Guo, X., Ding, L., 2021. Record of crustal thickening and synconvergent extension from the Dajiamang Tso Rift, Southern Tibet. Geosciences 11 (5), 209

24.   Chen, F.H., Ding, L., Piao, S.L., Zhou, T., Xu, B., Yao, T., Li, X., 2021. The Tibetan Plateau as the engine for Asian environmental change: the Tibetan Plateau Earth system research into a new era. Chinese Science Bulletin 66, 1263-1266

25.   Cai, F.L., Ding, L., Wang, H., Laskowski, A.K., Zhang, L., Zhang, B., Mohammadi, A., Li, J.X., Song, P.P., Li, Z.Y., Zhang, Q.H., 2021. Configuration and timing of collision between Arabia and Eurasia in the Zagros collision zone, Fars, southern Iran. Tectonics 40 (8), e2021TC006762

26.    Farnsworth, A., Valdes, P.J., Spicer, R.A., Ding, L., Witkowski, C., Lauretano, V., Su, T., Li, S.F., Li, S.H., Zhou, Z.K., 2021. Paleoclimate model-derived thermal lapse rates: Towards increasing precision in paleoaltimetry studies, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 564, 116903

27.    Jadoon, I.A.K., Ding, L., Saif-ur-Rehman, K.J., Bhatti, Z.I., Shah, S.T.H., Qasim, M. 2021. Lithospheric Deformation and Active Tectonics of the NW Himalayas, Hindukush, and Tibet. Lithosphere (1) 7866954

28.    Qasim, M., Ahmad, J., Ding, L., Tanoli, J.I., Sattar, M., Rehman, Q.U., Awais, M., Muhammad U., Baral, U., Khan, H., 2021. Integrated provenance and tectonic implications of the Cretaceous–Palaeocene clastic sequence, Changla Gali, Lesser Himalaya, Pakistan. Geological Journal 56 (9), 4747-4759

29.    Wang, L., Shen, L., Liu, C., Chen, K., Ding, L., Wang, C., 2021. The Late Cretaceous source-to-sink system at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the provenance of the Lanping Basin. Geoscience Frontiers 12 (3), 101102

30.  Wang, L., Zhong, Y., Xi, D., Hu, J., Shen, L., Dong, H., Liu, C., Ding, L., 2021. The Middle to Late Cretaceous marine incursion of the Proto-Paratethys sea and Asian aridification: a case study from the Simao-Khorat salt giant, southeast Asia Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567, 110300

31.  Wu, C., Zuza, A.V., Yin, A., Chen, X., Haproff, P.J., Li, J., Li, B., Ding, L., 2021. Punctuated orogeny during the assembly of Asia: Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the North China Craton and the Qilian Shan from the Paleoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic. Tectonics 40 (4), e2020TC006503

32.  Wu, C., Li, J., Ding, L., 2021. Low-temperature thermochronology constraints on the evolution of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibetan Plateau. Geosphere 17 (4), 1193-1213

33.  Wu, C., Zuza, A.V., Li, J., Haproff, P.J., Yin, A., Chen, X., Ding, L., Li, B., 2021. Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic cooling history of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and its foreland derived from low-temperature thermochronology. GSA Bulletin 133 (11-12), 2393-2417

34.  Wu, C., Li, J., Zuza, A.V., Haproff, P.J., Chen, X., Ding, L., 2021. Proterozoic？ Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Qilian Shan and Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibet. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36306.1

35.  Taylor, M., Forte, A., Laskowski, A., Ding, L., 2021. Active uplift of southern Tibet revealed GSA Today 31

36.  Xu, H., Aung, K.P., Zhang, Y., Shi, G.R., Cai, F., Zaw, T., Ding, L., Sein, K., Shen, S., 2021. A late Cisuralian (early Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Taungnyo Group in the Zwekabin Range, eastern Myanmar and its biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and tectonic implications. Journal of Paleontology 95 (6), 1158-1188

37.  Yuan, J., Yang, Z.Y., Deng, C.L., Krijgsman, W., Hu, X.M., Li, S.H., Shen, Z.S., Qin, H.F., An, W., He, H.Y., Ding, L., Guo, Z.T., Zhu, R.X., 2021. Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision. National Science Review: nwaa173. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa173

38. Zhao, T.G., Hou, Q.L., Shi, M.Y., Ding, L., 2021. Strain characteristics and tectonic significance of Dashuiyu ductile shear zone in Yunmengshan metamorphic core complex，Beijing. Acta Petrologica Sinica，37( 8) : 2483 － 2501，doi: 10. 18654 /1000-0569 /2021. 08. 14

39.  Ciren, L.M., Li, J.X., Yue, Y.H., Xie, J., Zhang, L.Y., Ding, L., 2021. Garnet/zircon U-Pb dating and geological significance of Luobadui skarn iron polymetallic deposit in Tibet. Mineral Deposit, 40(1), 82-98.

40.  Zheng, T. He Y., Ding, L., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Chit Thet Mon, Hou. G., Kyaing Sein and Myo Thant, 2020. Direct structural evidence of Indian continental subduction beneath Myanmar, Nature Communications, 11, 1944. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15746-3.

41.  Su, T., Robert A. Spicer, Wu, F.X., Farnsworth, A., Huang, J., Cédric Del Rio, Deng, T., Ding, L., Wei-Yu-Dong Deng, Yong-Jiang Huang, Alice Hughes, Lin- Bo Jia, et al., 2020. A middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical ‘Shangri-La’ ecosystem in central Tibet. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, 117 (52), 32989-32995.

42.    Cai, F., Ding, L., Zhang, Q., Orme, D.A., Wei, H., Li, J., Zhang, J.e., Zaw, T., Sein, K., 2020. Initiation and evolution of forearc basins in the Central Myanmar Depression. GSA Bulletin, 132(5-6), 1066-1082.

43.    Chen, Y.F., Ding., L., Li, Z.Y., Laskowshi, A.K., Li, J.X., Baral, B., Qasim, M., Yue, Y.H., 2020. Provenance Analysis of Cretaceous Peripheral Foreland Basin in Central Tibet: Implications to Precise Timing on the Initial Lhasa-Qiangtang Collision, Tectonophysics, 775, 228311.

44.  Ding, X.L., Ding, L., Wang, C., Wang, H. Q., Guo, X.D., 2020. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Palaeocene (ca. 54 Ma) rhyolites in the western Lhasa Terrane, south Tibet: Constraints from geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope compositions. Geological Journal, 56 (1), 494-507.

45. Ding, X.L., Ding, L., Zhang, L.Y., Wang, C., Yue, Y.H., 2020. Identification and Origin of Jurassic (~ 182 Ma) Zircon Grains from Chromitite within the Peridotite of the Jijal Complex, Kohistan Arc in North Pakistan Minerals 10 (12), 1085

46. Huang, W., Jackson, M. J. , Dekkers, M. J. , Solheid, P. , Zhang, Y. , Li, S. , Guo, Z., Ding L., 2020. Remagnetization of red beds on the tibetan plateau: mechanism and diagnosis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125 (8), e2020JB020068

47.  Jadoon, U. K., Ding, L., Baral, U., Qasim, M., 2020. Early Cretaceous to Eocene magmatic Records in Ladakh Arc: Constrains from U-Pb ages of Deosai Volcanics, Northern Pakistan. Geological Journal, 55 (7), 5384-5397.

48.  Jadoon, S.U.R.K., Ding, L., Jadoon, I.A.K., et al., 2020. Geometry and development of Zindapir Anticlinorium, Sulaiman Range, Pakistan. Journal of Structural Geology, 131: 103932.

49. Jadoon, I.A.K., Ding, L., Nazir, J., Idrees, M., Saif-ur-Rehman, K.J., 2020. Structural interpretation of frontal folds and hydrocarbon exploration, western sulaiman fold belt, Pakistan Marine and Petroleum Geology 117, 104380

50. Li, G.H., Bai, L., Ding, L., Song, B.W., Jiang, Y., 2020. Source parameters of the 2019 MS6.3 Medog earthquake and its tectonic implications. Chinese Journal of Geophysics 63 (3), 1214-1223

51. Li, J.X., Fan, W.M., Zhang, L.Y., Ding, L., Yue, Y.-H., Xie, J., Cai, F.L., Sein, K., 2020. B-rich melt immiscibility in Late Cretaceous Nattaung granite, Myanmar: Implication by composition and B isotope in tourmaline. Lithos 356, 105380.

52. Li, J.X., Fan, W.M., Zhang, L.Y., Peng, T.P., Sun, Y.L., Ding, L., Cai, F.L., Sein, K., 2020. Prolonged Neo-Tethyan magmatic arc in Myanmar: evidence from geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes of Cretaceous mafic–felsic intrusions in the Banmauk–Kawlin area. International Journal of Earth Sciences 109, 649-668.

53. Li, J.X., Fan, W.M., Zhang, L.Y., Ding, L., Yue, Y.H., Xie, J., Cai, F.L., Quan, Q.Y., Sein, K., Biotite geochemistry deciphers magma evolution of Sn-bearing granite, southern Myanmar. Ore Geology Reviews 121, 103565

54. Li, S., Yin, C., Ding, L., Guilmette, C., Zhang, J., Yue, Y.H., Baral, U., 2020. Provenance of Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks in the northern margin of the Lhasa terrane, Tibet: Implications for the timing of the Lhasa-Qiangtang collision. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 90, 104162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104162.

55.  Li, S., Yin, C., Guilmette, C., Ding, L. Reply to comment by LZ Shi et al. on “Birth and demise of the Bangong–Nujiang Tethyan Ocean: A review from the Gerze area of central Tibet” Earth-Science Reviews 208, 103213

56. Li, Z.Y., Ding, L.*, Than Zaw, et al., 2020. Kinematic Evolution of the West Burma Block during and after India-Asia Collision Revealed by Paleomagnetism. Journal of Geodynamics, 134, 101690.

57.  Song, P., Ding, L., Lippert, P.C., Li, Z., Zhang, L., Xie, J., 2020. Paleomagnetism of Middle Triassic lavas from northern Qiangtang (Tibet): Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125 (2), e2019JB017804.

58.  Wang, H.Q., Ding, L., Cai, F.-L., Sun, Y.-L., Li, S., Yue, Y.-H., Fan, S.-Q., Guo, X.-D., Qasim, M., 2020. The latest Jurassic protoliths of the Sangsang mafic schists in southern Tibet: Implications for the spatial extent of Greater India. Gondwana Research, 79: 248-262.

59.  Wang, L., Shen, L., Liu, C., Ding, L., Evolution of the paleo-Mekong River in the Early Cretaceous: Insights from the provenance of sandstones in the Vientiane Basin, central Laos. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 545, 109651

60.  Wu, C., Liu, C., Fan, S., Zuza, A.V., Ding, L., Liu, W.C., Ye, B.Y., Yang, S.J., Zhou, Z.G., 2020. Structural analysis and tectonic evolution of the western domain of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northwest Tibet. GSA Bulletin, 132 (5-6), 1291-1315

61.  Xiong, Z.Y., Ding, L.*, Spicer, A., Farnsworth A., Wang X., Valdes P., Su T., Zhang Q., Zhang L., Cai F., Wang H., Li Z., Song P., Guo X., Yue Y., 2020. The early Eocene Rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: from Low Desert to High Forest. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 543: 116312.

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164.  Wang, X., He, J., Ding, L., Gao, R. 2013. A possible mechanism for the initiation of the Yinggehai Basin: A visco-elasto-plastic model. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 74: 25-36.

165.  Wei, H., Meng, Q., Ding, L., Li, Z. 2013. Tertiary evolution of the western Tarim basin, northwest China: A tectono-sedimentary response to northward indentation of the Pamir salient. Tectonics, 32(3): 558-575.

166.  Xu, Q., Ding, L., Zhang, L., Cai, F., Lai, Q., Yang, Di, Liu-Zeng, J. 2013. Paleogene high elevations in the Qiangtang Terrane, central Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 362: 31-42.

167.  Zhang, Q., Willems, H., Ding, L. 2013. Evolution of the Paleocene-Early Eocene larger benthic foraminifera in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet, China. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 102 (5): 1427-1445.

168.  Cai, F., Ding, L., Wang, H., Yue, Y., Lai, Q. 2013. Provenance of the Upper Paleocene to Early Eocene strata, Gyantze, south Tibet: Implications for early Himalaya thickening. Chinese Journal of Geology, 48(2): 435-448.

169.  Ding, L., Zhong, D. 2013. The tectonic evolution of the eastern Himalaya syntaxis since the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Chinese Journal of Geology, 48(2): 317-333.

170.  Li, Y., Ding, L., Liu, D., Oimahmadov, I., Mustafo, G., Negmat, R., Li, S. 2013. The Cenozoic metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the lower crust of Shakhdara dome,Pamir Mountains. Chinese Journal of Geology, 48(2): 468-483.

171.  Yang, D., Ding, L. 2013. Geochronology and geochemistry of the high magnesium and high potassium ultrabasic leucite basanite in northern Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Journal of Geology, 48(2): 449-467.

172.  Ader, T., Avouac, J., Liu-Zeng, J., Lyon-Caen, H., Bollinger, L., Galetzka, J., Genrich, J., Thomas, M., Chanard, K., Sapkota, S. N., Rajaure, S., Shrestha, P., Ding, L., Flouzat, M. 2012. Convergence rate across the Nepal Himalaya and interseismic coupling on the Main Himalayan Thrust: Implications for seismic hazard. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 117: B04403. DOI: 10.1029/2011JB009071

173.  Cai, F., Ding, L., Leary, R. J., Wang, H., Xu, Q., Zhang, L., Yue, Y. 2012. Tectonostratigraphy and provenance of an accretionary complex within the Yarlung-Zangpo suture zone, southern Tibet: Insights into subduction-accretion processes in the Neo-Tethys. Tectonophysics, 574: 181-192.

174.  Crouzet, C., Appel, E., El Bay, R., Ding, L., Dunkl, I., Montomoli, C., Carosi, R., Zhang, Q. H., Wauschkuhn, B. 2012. Kinematics of the crust around the Ama Drime Massif (southern Tibet) - Constraints from paleomagnetic results. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 58: 119-131.

175.  Guynn, J., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G. E., Ding, L. 2012. U-Pb geochronology of basement rocks in central Tibet and paleogeographic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 43: 23-50.

176.  Huang, Q., Shi, R., Liu, D., Zhang, X., Fan, S., Ding, L. 2013. Os isotopic evidence for a carbonaceous chondritic mantle source for the Nagqu ophiolite from Tibet and its implications. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58 (1): 92-98.

177.  Liebke, U., Appel, E., Neumann, U., Ding, L. 2012. Dual polarity directions in basaltic-andesitic dykes - reversal record or self-reversed magnetization? Geophysical Journal International, 190 (2): 887-899.

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179.  Shi, R., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., Zhou, M., Zhao, G., Huang, Q., Zhang, X., Ding, B., Ding, L.  2012. Archean mantle contributes to the genesis of chromitite in the Palaeozoic Sartohay ophiolite, Asiatic Orogenic Belt, northwestern China. Precambrian Research, 216: 87-94.

180.  Shi, R., Griffin, W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y., Huang, Q., Zhang, X., Liu, D., Zhi, X., Xia, Q., Ding, L. 2012. Melt/mantle mixing produces podiform chromite deposits in ophiolites: Implications of Re-Os systematics in the Dongqiao Neo-tethyan ophiolite, northern Tibet. Gondwana Research, 21: 194-206.

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182.  Zhang, J. Y., Yin, A., Liu, W. C., Wu, F. Y., Ding, L., Grove, M. 2012. Coupled U-Pb dating and Hf isotopic analysis of detrital zircon of modern river sand from the Yalu River (Yarlung Tsangpo) drainage system in southern Tibet: Constraints on the transport processes and evolution of Himalayan rivers. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 124 (9-10): 1449-1473..

183.  Zhang, L., Ding, L*., Yang, D., Xu, Q., Cai, F., Liu, D. 2012. Origin of middle Miocene leucogranites and rhyolites on the Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on the timing of crustal thickening and uplift of its northern boundary. Chinese Science Bulletin, 57 (5): 511-524.

184.  Zhang, Q., Willems, H., Ding, L., Graefe, K., Appel, E. 2012. Initial India-Asia Continental Collision and Foreland Basin Evolution in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet: Evidence from Stratigraphy and Paleontology. Journal of Geology, 120 (2): 175-189.

185.  Shi, R., Huang, Q., Liu, D., Fan, S., Zhang, X., Ding, L., Griffin W. L., O'Reilly, S. Y. 2012. Recycling of Ancient Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle Constraints on the Genesis of the Ophiolitic Podiform Chromitites. Geological Review, 58(4): 643-652.

186.  Gehrels, G., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P., Pullen, A., Blakey, R., Weislogel, A., Ding, L., Guynn, J., Martin, A., McQuarrie, N., Yin, A. 2011. Detrital zircon geochronology of pre-Tertiary strata in the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen. Tectonics, 30: TC5016. DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002868.

187.  Hetzel, R., Dunkl, I., Haider, V., Strobl, M., von Eynatten, H., Ding, L., Frei, D. 2011. Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift. Geology, 39: 983-986.

188.  Pullen, A., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P. G., Gehrels, G. E., Ding, L. 2011. Cenozoic anatexis and exhumation of Tethyan Sequence rocks in the Xiao Curia Range, Southwest Tibet. Tectonophysics, 501: 28-40.

189.  Pullen, A., Kapp, P., McCallister, A. T., Chang, H., Gehrels, G. E., Garzione, C. N., Heermance, R. V., Ding, L. 2011. Qaidam Basin and northern Tibetan Plateau as dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau and paleoclimatic implications. Geology, 39: 1031-1034.

190.  Fan, S., Shi, R., Ding, L., Zhang, G. 2011. Constraints of provenance from detrital zircon of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Formation in Bangong Co area. Chinese Journal of Geology, 46(03): 847-864.

191.  Lu, S., Ding, L., Liu, J. 2011. Viscous characteristics of the present Tibetan lower crust：From the constraint of the GPS velocity field, Earth Science Frontiers. 18(3): 22-32.

192.  Cai, F., Ding, L*., Yue, Y. 2011. Provenance analysis of upper Cretaceous strata in the Tethys Himalaya, southern Tibet: Implications for timing of India-Asia collision. Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 305 (1-2): 195-206.

193.  Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G. E., Ding, L., Zhang, Q. 2011. Metamorphic rocks in central Tibet: Lateral variations and implications for crustal structure. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 123: 585-600.

194.  Wendler, I., Willems, H., Graefe, K., Ding, L., Luo, H. 2011. Upper Cretaceous inter-hemispheric correlation between the Southern Tethys and the Boreal: chemo- and biostratigraphy and paleoclimatic reconstructions from a new section in the Tethys Himalaya, S-Tibet. Newsletters On Stratigraphy, 44: 137-171.

195.  Antolin, B., Appel, E., Gloaguen, R., Dunkl, I., Ding, L., Montomoli, C., Liebke, U., Xu, Q. 2010. Paleomagnetic evidence for clockwise rotation and tilting in the eastern Tethyan Himalaya (SE Tibet): Implications for the Miocene tectonic evolution of the NE Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 493: 172-186.

196.  Kong, P., Ding, L., Lai, Q., Huang, F. 2010. Cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations and exposure ages of summit bedrocks in the Grove Mountains, Antarctica. Science China-Earth Sciences, 53 (4): 518-521.

197.  Kong, P., Huang, F., Liu, X., Fink, D., Ding, L., Lai, Q. 2010. Late Miocene ice sheet elevation in the Grove Mountains, East Antarctica, inferred from cosmogenic Ne-21-Be-10-Al-26. Global And Planetary Change, 72: 50-54.

198.  Liebke, U., Appel, E., Ding, L., Neumann, U., Antolin, B., Xu, Q. 2010. Position of the Lhasa terrane prior to India-Asia collision derived from palaeomagnetic inclinations of 53 Ma old dykes of the Linzhou Basin: constraints on the age of collision and post-collisional shortening within the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Journal International, 182: 1199-1215.

199.  Sanchez, V. I., Murphy, M. A., Dupre, W. R., Ding, L., Zhang, R. 2010. Structural evolution of the Neogene Gar Basin, western Tibet: Implications for releasing bend development and drainage patterns. Geological Society Of America Bulletin, 122: 926-945.

200.  Strobl, M., Hetzel, R., Ding, L., Zhang, L., Hampel, A. 2010. Preservation of a large-scale bedrock peneplain suggests long-term landscape stability in southern Tibet. Zeitschrift Fur Geomorphologie, 54: 453-466.

201.  Zhang, X., Shi, R., Huang, Q., Liu, D., Cidan, S., Yang, J., Ding, L. 2010. Finding of high-pressure mafic granulites in the Amdo basement, central Tibet. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55: 3694-3702.

202.  Zhao, J., Yuan, X., Liu, H., Kumar, P., Pei, S., Kind, R., Zhang, Z., Teng, J., Ding, L., Gao, X., Xu, Q., Wang, W. 2010. The boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America, 107: 11229-11233.

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204.  Liu-Zeng, J., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Tapponnier, P., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Ji, C., Hudnut, K. W., van der Woerd, J. 2009. Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, M-s 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan: East-west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet. Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 286: 355-370.

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206.  Sassier, C., Leloup, P. H., Rubatto, D., Galland, O., Yue, Y., Ding, L. 2009. Direct measurement of strain rates in ductile shear zones: A new method based on syntectonic dikes. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 114: B01406. DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005597.

207.  Saylor, J. E., Quade, J., Dellman, D. L., DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P. A., Ding, L. 2009. The Late Miocene Through Present Paleoelevation History Of Southwestern Tibet. American Journal of Science. 309: 1-42.

208.  Xu, Q., Ding, L*., Zhang, L., Yang, D., Cai, F., Lai, Q., Liu, J., Shi, R. 2010. Stable isotopes of modern herbivore tooth enamel in the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for paleoelevation reconstructions. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55 (1): 45-54.

209.  Ding, L.,Cai, F., Zhang, Q., Zhang, L., Xu, Q., Yang, D., Liu, D., Zhong, D. 2009. Provenance and tectonic evolution of the foreland basin systems in the Gandese Himalayan collisional orogen belt. Chinese Journal of Geology, 44(4): 1289-1311.

210.  Ding, L., Xu, Q., Zhang, L., Yang, D., Lai, Q., Huang, F., Shi, R. 2009. Regional variation of river water oxygen isotope and empirical elevation prediction models in tibetan plateau. Quaternary Sciences, 29(1): 1-12.

211.  Jiang, D., Liu, J., Guo, Z., Ding, L. 2009. Mineral chemistry and temperature-pressure estimates of Miocene potassic volcanic rocks in the Hoh Xil area|northern Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Journal of Geology, 44(3): 1001-1011.

212.  Liu, J., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Tapponnier, P., Gaudemer, Y., Wen, L., Xie, K. 2009. Tectonic geomorphology|active tectonics and lower crustal channel flow hypothesis of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Journal of Geology, 44(4): 1227-1255.

213.  Xu, X., Ding, L., Xu, Q., Cai, F., Zhang, Q., Zhang, L., Lai, Q. 2009. Tectonics implications of the ultramafic dykes in southeastern Tibet. Chinese Journal of Geology, 44(3): 1012-1024.

214.  Aikman, A. B., Harrison, T. M., Ding, L. 2008. Evidence for Early (> 44 Ma) Himalayan Crustal Thickening, Tethyan Himalaya, southeastern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 274: 14-23.

215.  Cai, F., Ding, L*., Zhang, Q., Xu, X., Yue, Y., Zhang, L., Xu, Q. 2008. Provenance and tectonic evolution of the Yalu-Zangbo peripheral foreland basin. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24 (3): 430-446.

216.  Jiang, D., Liu, J., Ding, L. 2008. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Cenozoic potassic volcanic rocks in the Hoh Xil area, northern Tibet plateau. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24 (2): 279-290.

217.  Kapp, P., Taylor, M., Stockli, D., Ding, L. 2008. Development of active low-angle normal fault systems during orogenic collapse: Insight from Tibet. Geology, 36 (1): 7-10.

218.  Liu-Zeng, J., Tapponnier, P., Gaudemer, Y., Ding, L. 2008. Quantifying landscape differences across the Tibetan plateau: Implications for topographic relief evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface. 113: F04018. DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000897.

219.  Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G. E., DeCelles, P. G., Brown, E. H., Fabijanic, J. M., Ding, L. 2008. Gangdese retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin deposits in the Damxung area, southern Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 33: 323-336.

220.  Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G. E., Vervoort, J. D., Ding, L. 2008. Triassic continental subduction in central Tibet and Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Geology, 36 (5): 351-354.

221.  Yang, T., Hyodo, M., Yang, Z., Ding, L., Li, H., Fu, J., Wang, S., Wang, H., Mishima, T. 2008. Latest Olduvai short-lived reversal episodes recorded in Chinese loess. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 113: B05103. DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005264.

222.  Liu., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., TAPPONNIER, P., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Liu, Y. 2008. The MS 8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake Co seismic Rupture and Its Tectonic Implications —An Out of sequence Thrusting Event with Slip Partitioned on Multiple Faults. Acta Geologica Sinica, 82(12): 1707-1722.

223.  DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P., Ding, L., Gehrels, G. E. 2007. Late Cretaceous to middle Tertiary basin evolution in the central Tibetan Plateau: Changing environments in response to tectonic partitioning, aridification, and regional elevation gain. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (5-6): 654-680.

224.  DeCelles, P. G., Quade, J., Kapp, P., Fan, M., Dettman, D. L., Ding, L. 2007. High and dry in central Tibet during the Late Oligocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253 (3-4): 389-401.

225.  Ding, L., Kapp, P., Yue, Y., Lai, Q. 2007. Postcollisional calc-alkaline lavas and xenoliths from the southern Qiangtang terrane, central Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 254 (1-2): 28-38.

226.  Kapp, P., DeCelles, P. G., Gehrels, G. E., Heizier, M., Ding, L. 2007. Geological records of the Lhasa-Qiangtang and Indo-Asian collisions in the Nima area of central Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (7-8): 917-932.

227.  Kong, P., Na, C., Fink, D., Ding, L., Huang, F. 2007. Erosion in northwest Tibet from in-situ-produced cosmogenic Be-10 and Al-26 in bedrock. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32 (1): 116-125.

228.  Kong, P., Na, C., Fink, D., Huang, F., Ding, L. 2007. Cosmogenic Be-10 inferred lake-level changes in Sumxi Co Basin, Western Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 29 (5-6): 698-703.

229.  Lai Q., Ding, L*., Wang, H., Yue, Y., Cai, F. 2007. Constraining the stepwise migration of the eastern Tibetan Plateau margin by apatite fission track thermochronology. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 50 (2): 172-183.

230.  Leier, A. L., DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P., Ding, L. 2007. The takena formation of the Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet: The record of a Late Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (1-2): 31-48.

231.  Yang, T., Hyodo, M., Yang, Z., Ding, L., Fu, J., Mishima, T. 2007. Early and middle Matuyama geomagnetic excursions recorded in the Chinese loess-paleosol sediments. Earth Planets and Space, 59 (7): 825-840.

232.  Zhang, H., Wang, X., Ding, L., Xia, G., Wang, L., Wang, Q. 2007. Carbonate Diagenesis Controlled by Glacioeustatic Sea-Level Changes: A Case Study of the Carboniferous-Permian Boundary Section at XiKou,Zhen’an County, Shannxi Province, China Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences, 32(3): 329-338.

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234.  Guynn, J.H., Kapp, P., Pullen, A., Heizier, M., Gehrels, G., Ding, L. 2006. Tibetan basement rocks near Amdo reveal "missing" Mesozoic tectonism along the Bangong suture, central Tibet. Geology, 34 (6): 505-508.

235.  Yue, Y.H, Ding, L. 2006. Ar-40/Ar-39 Geochronology, geochemical characteristics and genesis of the Linzhou basic dikes, Tibet. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 22 (4) (2006): 855-866.

236.  Zhang, H., Ding, L., Wang, X., Wang, L., Wang, Q., Xia, G. 2006. Carbonate diagenesis controlled by glacioeustatic sea-level changires: A case study from the carboni ferous-permian boundary section at Xikou, China. Journal of China University of Geosciences, 17 (2): 103-114.

237.  Zhang, H., Wang, X., Ding, L., Xia, G., Wang, L. 2006. The species diversity of fusulinaceans and high-frequency sea-level changes in the Carboniferous-Permian boundary section at Xikou, Zhen'an County, Shaanxi Province, China. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 49 (7): 673-683.

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239.  Hou, Z., Mo, X., Gao, Y., Yang, Z., Dong, G., Ding, L. 2006. Early Processes and Tectonic Model for the Indian-Asian Continental Collision:Evidence from the Cenozoic Gangdese Igneous Rocks in Tibet, Acta Geologica Sinica , 80(9): 1233-1248.

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245.  Kapp, J.L.D., Harrison, T.M., Kapp, P., Grove, M., Lovera, O.M., Ding, L. 2005. Nyainqentanglha Shan: A window into the tectonic, thermal, and geochemical evolution of the Lhasa block, southern Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 110 (B8): B08413. DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003330.

246.  Kapp, P., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M., Ding, L. 2005. Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117 (7-8): 865-878.

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251.  Ding, L. 2003. Paleocene deep-water sediments and radiolarian faunas: Implications for evolution of Yarlung-Zangbo foreland basin, southern Tibet. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 46 (1): 84-96.

252.  Ding, L., Kapp, P., Zhong, D.L., Deng, W.M. 2003. Cenozoic volcanism in Tibet: Evidence for a transition from oceanic to continental subduction. Journal of Petrology, 44 (10): 1833-1865.

253.  Ding, L., Lai, Q.Z. 2003. New geological evidence of crustal thickening in the Gangdese block prior to the Indo-Asian collision. Chinese Science Bulletin, 48 (15): 1604-1610.

254.  Kapp, P., Murphy, M.A., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M., Ding, L., Guo, J.H. 2003. Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet. Tectonics, 22 (4): 1029. DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001332.

255.  Kapp, P., Yin, A., Manning, C.E., Harrison, T.M., Taylor, M.H., Ding, L. 2003. Tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic blueschist-bearing Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet. Tectonics, 22 (4): 1043. DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001383.

256.  Taylor, M., Yin, A., Ryerson, F.J., Kapp, P., Ding, L. 2003. Conjugate strike-slip faulting along the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone accommodates coeval east-west extension and north-south shortening in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 22 (4): 1044. DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001361.

257.  Zhang, J., Ding, L. 2003. East West Extension in Tibetan Plateau and Its Significance To Tectonic Evolution. Chinese Journal of Geology 2: 179-189.

258.  Deng, X.G., Ding, L., Liu, X.H., Yin, A., Kapp, P., Murphy, M., Manning, C. 2002. Geochemical characteristics of the blueschists and its tectonic signif icance in the central Qiangtang area, Tibet. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 18(4): 517-525.

259.  Zhang, J.J., Guo, L., Ding, L. 2002. Structural characteristics of middle and southern Xainza-Dinggye Normal Fault System and its relationship to Southern Tibetan Detachment System. Chinese Science Bulletin, 47 (13): 1063-1069.

260.  He, S., Ding, L., Wu, G., Taylor, M.H. 2002. Quaternary Activity of Ziguicuo Fault in Gayringco Area, South Xizang, And Its Tectonic Implications. Chinese Journal of Geology, (1): 8-12.

261.  Wan, X., Ding, L. 2002. Discovery of The Latest Cretaceous Planktonic Foraminifera from Gyirong Of Southern Tibet And Its Chronostratigraphic Significance. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 41(1): 89-95.

262.  Zhong, D., Ding, L., Zhang, J., Ji, J. 2002. Study of Orogenic Belts in China: Retrospects and Prospects. Geological Review, 48(2): 147-152.

263.  Deng, X.G., Ding, L., Liu, X.H., Zhou, Y. 2001. Petrology and Ar-40/Ar-39 isotopic ages of blueschists in Gangmar, central Qiangtang, northern Tibet. Chinese Science Bulletin, 46 (5): 423-427.

264.  Ding, L., Zhong, D.L., Yin, A., Kapp, P., Harrison, T.M. 2001. Cenozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis (Namche Barwa). Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 192 (3): 423-438.

265.  Wan, X., Ding, L., Li, J., Cai, H. 2001. Latest cretaceous to early eocene marine strata in the ZhongBa region, Tibet. Journal of Stratigraphy, 25(4): 267-272.

266.  Zhang, J., Zhong, D., Ji, J., Ding, L., Sang, H. 2001. The structural-chronological frame of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis since the India-Asia collision and its correlation with the Ailaoshan-Red River strucatural belt. Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry, 20(4): 243-244.

267.  Zhong, D., Ding, L., Ji, J., Zhang, J., Liu, F., Liu, J., Yan, X. 2001. Coupling Of The Lithospheric Convergence Of West China And Dispersion Of East China In Cenozoic: Link With Paleoenvironmental Changes. Quaternary Sciences, 21(4): 303-312.

268.  Ding, L., Zhou, Y., Zhang, J.J., Deng, W.M. 2000. Geologic relationships and geochronology of the Cenozoic volcanoes and interbedded weathered mantles of Yulinshan in Qiangtang, North Tibet. Chinese Science Bulletin, 45 (24): 2214-2220.

269.  Kapp, P., Yin, A., Manning, C.E., Murphy, M., Harrison, T.M., Spurlin, M., Ding, L., Deng, X.G., Wu, C.M. 2000. Blueschist-bearing metamorphic core complexes in the Qiangtang block reveal deep crustal structure of northern Tibet. Geology, 28 (1): 19-22.

270.  Murphy, M.A., Yin, A., Kapp, P., Harrison, T.M., Ding, L., Guo, J.H. 2000. Southward propagation of the Karakoram fault system, southwest Tibet: Timing and magnitude of slip. Geology, 28 (5): 451-454.

271.  Zhang, J.J., Ding, L., Zhong, D.L., Zhou, Y. 2000. Orogen-parallel extension in Himalaya: Is it the indicator of collapse or the product in process of compressive uplift? Chinese Science Bulletin, 45 (2): 114-120.

272.  Zhong, D.L., Ding, L., Liu, F.T., Lu, J.H., Zhang, J.J., Ji, J.Q., Chen, H. 2000. Multi-oriented and layered structures of lithosphere in orogenic Belt and their effects on Cenozoic magmatism - A case study of western Yunnan and Sichuan, China. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 43: 122-133.

273.  Deng, X., Ding, L., Liu, X., Yin, A., Kapp, P., Murphy, M., Manning, C. 2000. Discovery of Blueschists In Gangmar-Taoxing Co Area, Central Qiangtang, Northern Tibet. Chinese Journal of Geology, (2): 227-232.

274. Zhou, Y.,Ding, L., Deng, W., Zhang, J. 2000. Tectonic Cyclothems In The Zanda Basin And Its Significance. Chinese Journal of Geology, (3): 305-315.

275.  Ding, L., Zhong, D.L. 1999. Metamorphic characteristics and geotectonic implications of the high-pressure granulites from Namjagbarwa, eastern Tibet. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 42 (5): 491-505.

276.  Yin, A., Kapp, P., Murphy, M.A., Manning, C.E., Harrison, T.M., Grove, M., Ding, L., Deng, X.G., Wu, C.M. 1999. Significant late Neogene east-west extension in northern Tibet. Geology, 27 (9): 787-790.

277.  Zhong, D.L, Wu, G.Y., Ji, J.Q., Zhang, Q., Ding, L. 1999. Discovery of ophiolite in southeast Yunnan, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 44 (1): 36-41.

278. Ding, L., Zhang, J., Zhou, Y., Deng, W., Xu, R., Zhong, D. 1999. Tectonic implication on the lithosphere evolution of the Tibet Plateau:Petrology and geochemistry of sodic and ultrapotassic volcanism in Northern Tibet. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 15(3): 408-421.

279. Ji, J., Zhong, D.,Ding, L., Zhang, J., Yang, Y. 1999. Genesis and scientific significance of the Yarlung Zangbo Canvon. Earth Science Frontiers. 6(4): 231-235.

280.  Ji, J., Zhong, D., Ding, L., and Han, X. 1998. Study on Metamorphism of Granul ite-facies Metamorphic Rocks Discovered in the Nabang Area on the Border between China and Burma. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 1998, 14(2), 163-175.

281. Ding, L.1997. Advance of Fission-Track Analysis Method and Its Application. Quaternary Sciences, 17(3): 272-280.

282.  Ding, L., Zhong, D.L. 1996. Characteristics of rare earth elements and cerium anomalies in cherts from the Paleo-Tethys in Changning-Menglian belt in western Yunnan, China. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 39 (1): 35-45.

283.  Zhong, D.L., Ding, L. 1996. Discovery of high-pressure basic granulite in Namjagbarwa area, Tibet, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 41 (1): 87-88.

284.  Zhong, D.L., Ding, L. 1996. Rising process of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau and its mechanism. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences, 39 (4): 369-379.

285. Zhong, D.L.,Ding, L.1996. Remarkable Progresses in Study on Deformation and Kinematics of The Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis. Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1:52-53.

286. Ding, L., Zhong, D., Pan, Y., Huang, X., Wang, Q. 1995. Fission-track evidence for Neogene and Quaternary uplift of the Eastern Himalayan syntaxis, Tibet. Chinese Science Bulletin, 40(16): 1497-1500.