Talent details

Name：Xiaomin Fang

Title & Affiliation：Ph.D, Professor

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Email：fangxm@itpcas.ac.cn

Homepage in Chinese：http://sourcedb.itpcas.cas.cn/cn/expert/200907/t20090706_2001504.html

Address：Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101P.R. China

Education and Appointments

Education

Ph.D. in Physical Geography, jointly in University of Leicester (U.K.) and Lanzhou University, China, 1992

M.S. in Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, China, 1987

B.S. in Geology, Department of Geology and Geography, Lanzhou University, China, 1983

Appointments

2005.01-present Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China

1995.12-2004.12 Professor, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China

2000-2004 Joint Professor and Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, China

1993.11-1995.11 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China

1988.01-1993.02 Lecturer, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University, China

1983.07-1987.07 Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, Lanzhou University, China

Research Interest

Research Interests: Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy and basin analysis; Mountain building and Asian monsoon-aridification

Research Fields: Uplift of Tibetan Plateau and environmental change

Selected Publications

Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author)

Part 1: 5 representative publications

1.Fang, X.M.*, G. Dupont-Nivet, Wang, C.S., Song, C.H., Meng, Q.Q., Zhang, W.L., Nie, J.S., Zhang, T., Chen, Y., 2019. Low central Tibet before the Early Miocene. Science Advance,6, eaba7298.

2. Fang, X.M.*, An, Z.S.*, Zan, J.B., S.C. Clemens, Yang, S.L., Han, W.X., 2020. The 3.6-Ma aridity and westerlies history over midlatitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. PNAS, 117 (40), 24,729-24,734.

3. Fang, X.M.*, G. Dupont-Nivet, Wang, C.S., Song, C.H., Meng, Q.Q., Zhang, W.L., Nie, J.S., Zhang, T., Chen, Y., 2020. Revised chronology of central Tibetan uplift (Lunpola Basin). Science Advance, 6: eaba7298, 1-10.

4. Fang, X.M.*, An, Z.S.*, S.C. Clemens, Zan, J.B., Shi, Z., Yang, S.L., Han, W.X., 2020. The 3.6 Ma aridity and Westerlies history over mid-latitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. Proc. Nat. Am. Soc., 117(40), 24,729-24,734.

5. Fang, X.M.*, Fang, Y.H., Zan, J.B., Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H., Appel, E., Meng, Q.Q., Miao, Y.F., Dai, S., Lu, Y. and Zhang, T. 2019. Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution. Earth Science Review, 190, 460-485.

6. Fang, X.M.*, Galy, A., Yang, Y.B., Zhang, W.L., Ye, C.C., Song, C.H., 2019. Temperature forcing Paleogene chemical weathering intensity in the northern Tibet Plateau. Geology, 47, 992-996.

7. Fang, X.M.*, Wang, J.Y., Zhang, W.L., Zan, J.B., Song, C.H., Yan, M.D., Appel, E.,. Zhang, T., Wu, F.L., Yang, Y.B. and Lu, Y., 2016. Tectonosedimentary evolution model of an intracontinental flexural (foreland) basin for paleoclimatic research. Global and Planetary Change, 145, 78–97.

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)

1. Xie, Y. L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.* 2020. A major environmental shift by the middle Eocene in southern China: Evidence from palynological records. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 278, 104226.

2. Xie, Y.L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, D.W., Zhang, W.L. 2020. Early Eocene southern China dominated by desert: Evidence from a palynological record of the Hengyang Basin, Hunan Province. Global and Planetary Change, 195, 103320.

3. Ye, C.C., Yang, Y.B.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zan, J. B., Tan, M. Q., & Yang, R. S. 2020. Chlorite weathering linked to magnetic enhancement in Red Clay on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 538, 109446.

4. Ye, C.C., Yang, Y.B.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H., Yang, R.S. 2020. Paleolake salinity evolution in the Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) between ~42 and 29？Ma: Links to global cooling and Paratethys sea incursions. Sedimentary Geology, 409, 105778.

5. Mao, Z.Q., Meng, Q.Q.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, T., Wu, F.L., Yang, Y.B., Zhang, W.L., Zan, J.B. and Tan, M.Q., 2019. Recognition of tuffs in the middle-upper Dingqinghu Fm., Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau: Constraints on stratigraphic age and implications for paleoclimate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 525, 44–56.

6. Ruan, X.B., Yang, Y.B.*, Galy, A., Fang, X.M.*, Jin, Z.D., Zhang, F., Yang, R.S., Deng, L., Meng, Q.Q., Ye, C.C., Zhang, W.L., 2019. Evidence for early (≥ 12.7 Ma) eolian dust impact on river chemistry in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 515, 79–89.

7. Teng, X.H., Fang, X.M.*, Kaufman, A.J., Liu, C.L., Wang, J.Y., Zan, J.B. and Yang, Y.B., 2019. Sedimentological and mineralogical records of the deep drilling core SKD1 from the Jianghan Basin, central China and their indicated Late Cretaceous-Eocene sedimentary environmental evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 182, 103936.

8. Xie, Y.L., Wu, F.L.*, Fang, X.M.*, 2019. Middle Eocene East Asian monsoon prevalence over southern China: Evidence from palynological records. Global and Planetary Change, 175, 13-26.

9. Yang, R.S., Yang, Y.B., Fang, X.M.*, Ruan, X.B., Galy, A., Ye, C.C., Meng, Q.Q and Han, W.X., 2019. Late Miocene intensified tectonic uplift and climatic aridification on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from clay mineralogical and geochemical records in the Xining Basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10.1029/2018GC007917.

10. Ye, C., Yang, Y.*, Fang, X.M.*, Zan, J., Tan, M., Yang, R., 2019. Chlorite weathering linked to magnetic enhancement in red clay on the Chinese Loess Plateau, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109446.

11. Zan, J.B., Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Yan, M.D. and Zhang, D.W. 2018. A new record of late Pliocene-early Pleistocene aeolian loess-red clay deposits from the western Chinese Loess Plateau and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, 17-26.

12. Lu, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Friedrich, O., Song, C.H., 2018. Characteristic grain-size component - A useful process-related parameter for grain-size analysis of lacustrine clastics? Quaternary International, 479, 90-99.

13. Yang, R.S., Fang, X.M.*, Meng, Q.Q., Zan, J.B., Zhang, W.L., Deng, T., Ruan, X.B., Yang, L.Y. and Yang, Y.B., 2017. High-resolution paleomagnetic constraints on the newly found uppermost mammal-bearing sequence of the continuous Cenozoic stratigraphy in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and the geologic implications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DIO:10.1002/2017GC006945.

14. Wu, F.L., Fang, X.M.*, Meng, Q.Q., Zhao, Y., Tang, F.J., Zhang, T., Zhang, W.L. and Zan, J.B., 2017. Magneto- and litho-stratigraphic records of the Oligocene-Early Miocene climatic changes from deep drilling in the Linxia Basin, Northeast Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 158, 36–46.

15. Ye, C., Yang, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Hong, H., Wang, C., Yang, R., Zhang, W., 2018. Chlorite chemical composition change in response to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.014.

16. Ye, C., Yang, Y., Fang, X.M.*, Hong, H., Zhang, W., Yang, R., Zhang, W.L. 2018. Mineralogical and geochemical discrimination of the occurrence and genesis of palygorskite in Eocene sediments on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 567–581.

17. Zhang, Z.G., Nie, J.S. and Fang, X.M.*, 2017. Provenance analysis reveals mountain uplift in the midsection of the Altyn Tagh Fault during the Middle Miocene. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54(3), 278-289.

18. Fang,X.M.*, Li, M.H.*, Wang, Z.R., Wang, J.Y., Li, J., Liu, X.M. and Zan, J.B., 2016. Oscillation of mineral compositions in Core SG-1b, western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038.

19. Fang,X.M.*, Song, C., Yan, M., Zan, J., Liu, C., Sha, J., Zhang, W., Zeng, Y., Wu, S. and Zhang, D., 2016. Mesozoic litho- and magneto-stratigraphic evidence from the central Tibetan Plateau for megamonsoon evolution and potential evaporites. Gondwana Research, 37, 110–129.

20. Miao, Y.*, Fang, X.M.*, Song, C., Yan, X., Zhang, P., Meng, Q., Li, F., Wu, F., Yang, S., Kang, S., & Wang, Y. 2016. Late Cenozoic fire enhancement response to aridification in mid-latitude Asia: Evidence from microcharcoal records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 139, 53-66.

21. Zan,J.B., Fang,X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Yan, M.D. and Zhang, T., 2016. Palaeoenvironmental and chronological constraints on the Early Pleistocene mammal fauna from loess deposits in the Linxia Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 148, 234-242.

22. Zhang, T., Han, W.X., Fang, X.M.*, Zhang, W.L., Song, C.H. and Yan, M.D., 2016. Intensi？ed tectonic deformation and uplift of the Altyn Tagh range recorded by rock magnetism and growth strata studies of the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 137, 54–68.