Yan, Maodu
professor
Environmental science
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
China
Biography
Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China 2008-2010 Post-Doc Research Fellow, University of Western Australia 2006-2008 Post-Doc Research Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz 2003-2006 Ph.D. in Geology, University of Michigan 2000-2005 Research assistant, University of Michigan 2000-2005 Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan 1999 Short term visiting scholar, University of Michigan 1997-2003 Ph.D. in Physical Geography, Lanzhou University 1993-1997 B.Sc. in Physical Geography, Lanzhou University
Research Interest
paleolatitudes and magnetostratigraphy
Publications
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Yan, M., R. Van der Voo, X. Fang, J.M. Pares, and D.K. Rea, Paleomagnetic evidence for a mid – Miocene clockwise rotation of about 25° of the Guide Basin area in NE Tibet, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 2006, 241, 234-247
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Yan, M., X. Zhao, and P. Riisager, New paleomagnetic results from the igneous rocks of the Nauru Basin, Western Pacific: implications on paleolatitudes and magnetostratigraphy, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 2008, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.047
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Yang S.L., X. Fang, M. Yan, Z. Shi, C. Song, Y. Han, Grain size proï¬les in the Chengdu Clay, eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for signiï¬cant drying of Asia since ~500 ka B.P., Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2010, 38, 57-64.
