LI Sanzong
Institute of Marine Geodynamics
Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE
Ocean University of China
Telephone: 86-532-66781971(Office)
E-mail: sanzhong@ouc.edu.cn; 1186625083@qq.com
Academic Qualifications
3/2005-7/2005: Intensive English Training,
Beijing Language and Culture University, China
9/2004-1/2005: Intensive German Training,
Beijing Language and Culture University, China
9/1993-7/1996: Ph. D, Department of Geology,
Changchun University of Earth Sciences (i. e. Jilin University), China
9/1990-7/1993: M. Sc, Department of Geology,
Changchun University of Earth Sciences, China
9/1986-7/1990: B. Sc, Department of Geology,
Changchun University of Earth Sciences, China
Administrative Appointments
09/2016-11/2021: Academic Standing Committee Member, Academic Committee Board
of Ocean University of China
09/2016-11/2021: Director, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques,
Ministry of Education, China
12/2010-09/2016: Vice Director, Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting
Techniques, Ministry of Education, China
11/2011-03/2017: Assistant Director, College of Marine Geosciences,
Ocean University of China
Academic Appointments
09/2017-11/2017: Guest Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia
11/2016-11/2019: Adjunct Professor, Jilin University, China
09/2016-09/2019: Adjunct Professor, Nanjing University, China
08/2015-08/2017: AoShan Talent Scientist, Qingdao National Laboratory
for Marine Science and Technology, China
08/2014-08/2014: Guest Professor, Malaya University, Malaysia
09/2013-11/2013: Guest Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia
09/2012-09/2012: Guest Professor, National Taiwan University, China
04/2010-05/2010: Guest Investigator, WHIO/MIT, USA
09/2009-11/2009: Guest Investigator of IODP, TAMU, USA
04/2006-04/2007: Visiting Scholar, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel University, Germany
03/2004-06/2004: Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences,
the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
11/2002-02/2003: Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences,
the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
01/2002-present: Supervisor of Ph. D. Student, College of Marine Geosciences,
Ocean University of China, China
11/2001-01/2002: Professor, College of Marine Geosciences,
Ocean University of China, China
10/1998-11/2001: Associate Professor, College of Marine Geosciences,
Ocean University of China, China
09/1996-10/1998: Senior Lecturer/Post –doctor, Department of Geology,
Northwest University, China
Memberships and responsibilities of academic societies
General Secretary, Forum for Processes and Dynamics of Crust-Mantle-Ocean System in West Pacific Ocean in 2015
Academic Committee Members, China Union of Geosciences (CUG) for each year
General Secretary, Annual Meeting for Structural Geology and Tectonics of China in 2014
Chairman, International Coference of Evolution of Asian Continent and its
Continental Margins of IAGR in 2010.
Guest Editor, Four special issues of Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Guest Editor, Four special issues of Geological Journal
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Science Bulletin (English Version)
Editorial board member, Precambrian Research
Editorial board member, Geological Journal
Editorial board member, Journal of Ocean University of China (English Version)
Editorial board member, Geosciences Frontiers (in Chinese)
Editorial board member, Geological Review (in Chinese)
Committee member, Committee of Structural Geology and Tectonics,
Geological Society of China
Member，AGU
Member，EGU
Member，AAPG
Invited reviewers, 《Earth-Science Reviews》,《Gondwana Research》, 《Precambrian Research》, 《American Journal of Sciences》,《Journal of Geophysical Research- Solid Earth》, 《Plos One》,《Cretaceous Research》,《Tectonics》,《Lithos》,《Sedimentary Geology》,《Chemical Geology》,《International Geology Review》,《Journal of Structural Geology》,《Journal of Geological Society, London》,《International Journal of Earth Sciences》,《Tectonophysics》,《Geological Magzine》,《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》,《Marine and Petroleum Geology》,《Journal of African Earth Sciences》,《Geological Journal》,《Australia Journal of Earth Sciences》and many Chinese journals.
Awards & Fellowships
12/2016: Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016
12/2015: Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015
11/2015: AoShan Talent Program of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, China
12/2015: Yangtze Scholar Program of Ministry of Education, China
06/2015: Taishan Scholar Program of Shangdong Province, China
09/2014: 2nd-rank National Award for Natural Science as the third investigator, Government of P. R. China
09/2013: National Outstanding Youngest Scientist of NSFC, China
04/2011: Outstanding Scholarship of Qingdao City, Government of Qingdao City
12/2009: 2nd-rank Achievement Prize of Natural Science as the first investigator, Government of Shandong Province
12/2007: Golden Hammer Prize to the Younger Geologists, Geological Society of China
12/2006: Outstanding Scholarship of New Century, Ministry of Education, China
11/2001: Science and Technology Achievement Prize to the Younger, Science Committeeof Qingdao City
11/2000: 2nd-rank Achievement Prize of Science and Technology, Education Committee of Shandong Province
09/1996-10/1998: Post-doctoral Fellowship, Post-doctor Management Committee of China
07/2015: Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Elsvier
12/2014: Outstanding Reviewer, Chinese Science Bulletin, Springer
Teaching Experience
01/2002-present: Professor and Ph. D. student supervisor, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China; Teach Marine Geology, Marine Geodynamics, Marine Tectonics, Geology of China, Basin Analysis, Continental Margin Geology, Plate Tectonics, Microtectonics, Structural Geology.
10/1998-12/2001: Associate professor, College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China; Teach Metamorphic Geology, Marine Geology, Historical Geology, Continental Margin Geology, Plate Tectonics, Structural Geology.
09/1996-10/1998: Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, Northwest University; Teach Tectonics of China.
Research interests
1. General
Structural Geology and Tectonics, Plate Reconstruction, Continental Dynamics and Marine Geodynamics.
2. Application
Application of methods and techniques of structural analysis to various deformation and tectonics of orogens and basins in China and its adjacent seas in the Earth history, especially at three key transition stages of Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic; study of intracontinental tectonics and continental marginal tectonics, and comparison of different structural levels of continental crusts, various deformation and tectonic setting and tectonic regimes to discuss complex evolution of continental lithosphere; plate reconstruction of typical geological times of Early Paleozoic and 55 Ma, 45 Ma, 30 Ma, 25 Ma, 16 Ma, 5 Ma in Cenozoic.
3. Recent interests
(1)Paleoproterozoic tectonic assembly processes of multiple blocks of the North China Craton along the Trans-North China Orogen and the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt；
(2) Caledonian and Indosinian subduction, collision tectonics and plate reconstruction of the Central China Orogen (the Qilian-Qinling-Dabie-Sulu Orogen) and exhumation of the HP-UHP rocks；
(3) Meso-Cenzoic intracontinental deformation of East China and its related subduction of the (Paleo-)Pacific Plate, especially intraplate rifting of the Bohai Bay Basin in North China and thrusting and folding in South China；
(4) Mesozoic evolution of NW Pacific and Cenozoic evolution of SW Indian Ocean and the South China Sea;
(5) Plate reconstruction of Early Paleozoic and Cenozoic.
RESEARCH GRANTS
1. On-going Projects (4 items)
• 2016.06-2020.06: Meso-Neoproterozoic Proto-basin and differential reformation in North China Craton，Funds: RMB$4,000,000，The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YF0601002)，Principal Investigator
• 2016.01-2020.12: Marine geological processes and environment，Funds: RMB$1,500,000. Joint Program of NSFC-Shandong Center for Marine Science（U1606401），Major Investigator.
• 2016.01-2020.01: Multiple Natural Resources and Geoharzads related to Tectonic Evolution in Continent-Ocean Connection Zone，Funds: RMB $2,000,000，Taishan Scholar Program，Principal Investigator
• 2015.01-2019.12: Deep Processes and Dynamics in the Asian Continental Magin，National Programme on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction, SOA (No. GASI-GEOGE-01), Funds: RMB $3,000,000，Key Special Support of National Ocean Survey Beareau，Principal Investigator
2. Completed Projects
• 2014.01-2017.12: Distinguished Young Structural Geologist，Funds: RMB $3,200,000，NSFC（41325009），Principal Investigator
• 2015.01-2017.01: Multiple Natural Resources and Geoharzads related to Tectonic Evolution in West Pacific Continental Margin，Funds: RMB$2,400,000，AoShan Talents Program supported by Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Techonlogy，Principal Investigator
• 2015.01-2017.12: Meso-Neoproterozoic Proto-basin and differential reformation，Funds: RMB$960,000，funded by Beijing Petrolium Exploration and Development Institute, CNPC，Principal Investigator
• 2016.01-2018.12: Meso-Neoproterozoic Proto-basin and Structural Evolution of the North China Craton（No. 2016ZX05004001-003），Funds: RMB$1,200,000，Sub-project of National Key Program for Science and Technology，funded by Beijing Petrolium Exploration and Development Institute, CNPC，Principal Investigator of Sub-project
• 2014.07-2015.12: Inversion Tectonics and its Control to Large-Scale Oilfield in Central-North Part of Xihu Sag（CCL2014SHPS0032EXP），Funds: RMB $2,950,000，CNOOP，Principal Investigator
• 2012.01-2016.12: Early Paleozoic Assembly of Micro-continents and Proto-Tethyan Ocean-Continent Configuration（41190072）. Funds: RMB $3,500,000，Key Program of NSFC，Principal Investigator
• 2012.06-2017.12: Mineralization of Sulfide Deposits in Mid-Oceanic Ridge of SW India Ocean（2012CB417305），Funds: RMB $400,000，The National Key Research and Development Program of China（973 Plan），Major Investigator
• 2011.01-2015.12: Mapping for Structural Evolution and Tectonomorphological Processes in the Central Active Tectonic Zone in North China Block，Funds: RMB $300,000，China Geological Survey Beareau，Principal Investigator
• 2011.01-2015.12: Structural Evolution and Tectonomorphological Processes in the Central Active Tectonic Zone in North China Block（1212011120103），Funds: RMB $4,400,000，China Geological Survey Beareau，Principal Investigator
• 2012.01-2016.12: Early Paleozoic Assembly of small blocks and Paleogeography related to Proto-Tethys Ocean(41190072), Key Program of NSFC, Funds: RMB$ 3,500,000; Principal Investigator
• 2010.01-2013.12: Reconstruction and Animation of Ocean Circulation and Marine Sediment Dynamics in the South China Sea at the Key Stages of Cenozoic，Key Program of Ocean University of China，Funds: RMB$ 500,000; Principal Investigator
• 2009.09-2013.09:Normal Faulting, Timing and Numerical Modeling of Ocean Plateau Formation at Shatsky Rise. IODP Project，Funds: RMB$ 40,000; Head of Structural Geology Group, IODP Cruise 324
• 2008-2010: Investigation and study of geology and geophysics related to tsunami earthquake offshore Indosinia island. NSFC, Co-investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: 40776038; Funds: RMB$ 550,000).
• 2006-2011: Preservation of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Intra-continental Complex Structures of the Xuefeng Tectonic Belt, China Petroleum and Chemical Cooperation, Principal Investigator of Secondary Project：Prof. Wang Yuejun and Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: unclear; Funds: RMB$ 11,000,000).
• 2007-2009: Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of Mafic-Ultramafic rocks in the Liaohe Group and its Tectonic Implication. Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET) of the Ministry of Education, P.R. China, Principal investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: unclear; Funds: RMB$ 500,000).
• 2005-2007: High-precise Dating to Protolith and Metamorphism of Paleoproterozoic Liaohe Group. National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC), Principal investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: 40472098; Funds: RMB$ 350,000).
• 2005-2006: Permian to Mesozoic Reserviors and Strata of the Huanghua Depression in the southwest beach of Bohai Bay. Project of China National Petroleum Cooperation, Principal investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: DGYT-2005-JS-2345; Funds: RMB$ 380,000)
• 2005-2005: Mesozoic Structure, Oil-trap Types and Seismic Transverse Profiles acoss the Huanghua Depression, the Bohai Gulf Basin. Project of China National Petroleum Cooperation, Principal investigator：Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: unclear; Funds: RMB$ 270,000)
• 2005-2005: Mesozoic Structural Evolution of the Jiyang Depression, the Bohai Gulf Basin. Project of China Petroleum and Chemical Cooperation, Principal investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: 20050200164; Funds: RMB$ 470,000)
• 2003-2004: Hydrocarbon Accumulation and Evolution of the Buried Hills in the Jiyang Depression. Project of China Petroleum and Chemical Cooperation, Principal investigator: Prof. Li Sanzhong (Code: unclear; Funds: RMB$ 490,000)
SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
• Over 400 selected papers and about 220 SCI-indexed papers since 1994.
• Life-time citation number = ~6000 (H-index = 45);
• No. 251 of Top 1% scientists (Total: 3409 scientists) ranking in Geosciences of ESI on January 12, 2017.
1. National invention patents
1. [National Invention Patent]. Digital Geological Compass，Inventors：Sanzhong Li, Chong Jin, Ming Huang. Authorized No.：ZL200710188556.8
2. [National Invention Patent]. Intergrated Digital Geological Compass，Inventors：Chong Jin, Sanzhong Li, Ming Huang. Authorized No.：ZL200810232006.6
3. [National Invention Patent]. A high-pressure corrosion-proof reaction kettle. Inventors：Xuebo Yin, Zhigang Zeng, Sanzhong Li, Xiaoyuan Wang. Authorized No.：ZL201210029648.2
4. [National Invention Patent]. An efficient bayonet, quick-buckling and anticorrosion digestion tank. Inventors：Xuebo Yin, Zhigang Zeng, Sanzhong Li, Xiaoyuan Wang. Authorized No.：ZL201220612911.6
5. [National Invention Patent]. Digital liquid-floating magnetic compass and its method for measuring attitude angle. Inventors：Shanshan Wang，Ming Huang, Chong Jin, Sanzhong Li. Authorized No.：2013101237274
6. [National Invention Patent]. A simulation and observation system for submarine landslides related to gas hydrate dissociation. Inventors：Lingli Guo，Sanzhong Li，Yanhui Suo，Gege Hui，Liming Dai. Authorized No.：ZL201410139109.3
7. [Utility Model Patent]. High-pressure corrosion-proof reaction kettle. Inventors：Xuebo Yin, Zhigang Zeng, Sanzhong Li, Xiaoyuan Wang. Authorized No.：ZL 2012 2 0043719.X.
8. [Utility Model Patent]. Efficient bayonet, quick-buckling and anticorrosion digestion tank. Inventors：Xuebo Yin, Zhigang Zeng, Sanzhong Li, Xiaoyuan Wang. Authorized No.：201210469949.7.
9. [Utility Model Patent]. A simulation and observation system for submarine landslides related to gas hydrate dissociation. Inventors：Lingli Guo，Sanzhong Li，Yanhui Suo，Gege Hui，Liming Dai. Authorized No.：ZL 2014 2 0167305.7
2. List of Selected Publications:
1. Li, S.Z., Suo, Y.H., Li, X.Y., Liu, B., Dai, L.M., Wang, G.Z., Zhou, J., Li, Y., Liu, Y.M., Cao, X.Z., Somerville, I., Mu, D.L., Zhao, S.J., Liu, J.P., Meng, F., Zhen, L.B., Zhao, L.T., Zhu, J.J., Yu, S.Y., Liu, Y.J., Zhang, G.W., Microplate tectonics: new insights from micro-blocks in the global oceans, continental margins and deep mantle, Earth-Science Reviews, 2018.185:1029-1064.
2. Li, S.Z., Geldmacher, J., Hauff, F., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Yu, S., Zhao, S.J., Rausch, S., Composition and timing of carbonate vein precipitation within the igneous basement of the Early Cretaceous Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific, Marine Geology, 2014, 357: 321-333.
3. Li,S.Z.,Jahn, B.M., Zhao, S.J., Dai, L.M., Li, X.Y., Suo, Y.H., Guo, L.L., Wang, Y.M., Liu, X.C., Lan, H.Y., Zhou, Z.Z., Zheng, Q.L., Wang, P.C., Triassic southeastward subduction of North China Block to South China Block: insights from new geological, geophysical and geochemical data. Earth-Science Reviews, 2017, 166:270-285.
4. Li, S.Z., Zhao, G.C., Sun, M., Han, Z.Z., Hao, D.F., Luo, Y., Xia, X.P., Deformation history of the Paleoproterozoic Liaohe Assemblage in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2005,24(5):659-674.
5. Li, S.Z., Zhao, G.C., SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Liaoji Granitoids: constraints on the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji belt in the eastern block of the North China craton, Precambrian Research, 2007,158(1-2):1-16.
6. Li, S.Z., Zhao, G.C., Zhang, J., Sun, M., Zhang, G.W., Dai, L.M., Deformation history of the Hengshan-Wutai-Fuping Complexes: Implications for the evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen, Gondwana Research, 2010, 18(4):611-631.
7. Li, S.Z., Kusky, T.M., Zhao, G.C., Liu, X.C., Zhang, G.W., Kopp, H., Wang, L., Two-stage Triassic exhumation of HP-UHP terranes in the western Dabie orogen of China: constraints from structural geology, Tectonophysics, 2010, 490(3-4):267-293.
8. Li, S.Z., Santosh, M., Zhao, G.C., Zhang, G.W., Jin, C., Intracontinental deformation in a frontier of super-convergence: A perspective on the tectonic milieu of the South China Block, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2012,49(SI):313-329.
9. Li, S.Z., Zhao, G.C., Dai, L.M., Zhou, L.H., Liu, X., Suo, Y.H., Santosh, M., Cenozoic faulting of the Bohai Bay Basin and its bearings on the destruction of the eastern North China Craton, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2012,47:80-93
10. 李三忠，索艳慧，李玺瑶，王永明，曹现志，王鹏程，郭玲莉，于胜尧，兰浩圆，李少俊，赵淑娟，周在征，张臻，张国伟,西太平洋中生代板块俯冲过程与东亚洋陆过渡带构造-岩浆响应, 科学通报, 2018, 63(16):1550-1593.
（2）代表性论著：
1. 李三忠，索艳慧，郭玲莉;《海底构造原理》;科学出版社;2017
2. 李三忠，索艳慧，刘博;《海底构造系统》（上）;科学出版社; 2018
3. 李三忠，索艳慧，刘博;《海底构造系统》（下）;科学出版社; 2018
4. 李三忠，赵淑娟，索艳慧，刘博，李玺瑶;《区域海底构造》（上）;科学出版社; 2018
5. 李三忠，刘博，李玺瑶，李阳，索艳慧; 《区域海底构造》（中）;科学出版社; 2018
6. 李三忠，曹花花，于胜尧，赵淑娟，王誉桦，刘博;区域海底构造》（下）;科学出版社; 2019
二、国家和省部级奖：
1. 赵国春、孙敏、李三忠，国家自然科学奖二等奖，获奖项目名称：华北克拉通早元古代拼合与Columbia超大陆形成，2014
2. 李三忠、赵国春、孙敏、周喜文，教育部自然科学奖一等奖，获奖项目名称：胶辽吉带古元古代构造-热演化与早前寒武纪构造体制巨变，2018
3. 李三忠、赵国春、周立宏、许淑梅，山东省自然科学奖二等奖，获奖项目名称：华北克拉通形成与破坏及周边造山带的构造演化过程，2009
4. 宋明春、李三忠、万中杰、徐洪岩、宋志勇、李世勇、于广婷、胡 弘、宋英昕、焦秀美, 国土资源部科技进步奖二等奖，获奖项目名称：山东省系列地质矿产图及其应用，2017
5. 李三忠，中国地质学会青年科技奖金锤奖，获奖项目名称：中国东部古元古代－中新生代构造演化，2007
6. 刘永江、任收麦、葛肖虹、尹成明、李伟民、王亚东、李三忠、袁四化、孙知明、裴军令、刘志宏、李伟、梁琛岳、温泉波、赵英利，国土资源部科技技术奖二等奖，获奖项目名称：柴达木盆地与周缘地质构造演化重大进展与油气勘查应用，2018
