Dazhi Jiang
Professor & Undergraduate Chair of Laboratory for
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Dazhi Jiang, Professor & Undergraduate Chair of Laboratory for Structural Geology & Tectonics of the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Ph.D. University of New Brunswick, 1996. Dr. Jiang is also a Distinguished Professor at Northwest University, China, and supervises graduate students at Northwest.
Research Interest
Dr. Jiang's research interest lies primarily in using structures and fabrics preserved in Earth's crust and mantle, observed on small scales such as in field rock exposures, in hand samples, and under microscopes, to unravel large-scale tectonic deformation processes. He integrates fieldwork, laboratory microstructural and texture analysis, and numerical modeling in his research. He has developed a self-consistent micromechanical approach for modeling muti-scale fabric development during the deformation of the heterogeneous Earth's lithosphere. The approach provides a rigorous link between structural geology and tectonics. His group currently applies the approach to field areas in the Canadian Shield, the Central Orogenic Belt of China, and the North China Craton.
Publications
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Zhu G, Chen Y, Jiang D, Lin S. Rapid change from compression to extension in the North China Craton during the Early Cretaceous: evidence from the Yunmengshan metamorphic core complex. Tectonophysics. 2015 Aug 12;656:91-110.
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Qu M, Jiang D, Lu LX. An optimal scheme for numerical evaluation of Eshelby tensors and its implementation in a MATLAB package for simulating the motion of viscous ellipsoids in slow flows. Computers & Geosciences. 2016 Nov 30;96:98-108.
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Jiang D. Viscous inclusions in anisotropic materials: Theoretical development and perspective applications. Tectonophysics. 2016 Dec 14;693:116-42.
