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Biography

Guo Lingzhi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Anlu, Hebei Province. He graduated from Central University.

Guo is known as one of the initiators of slab structure and terrain structure research. He has long been devoted to the tectonic structure research of the south and southeast regions of China and he has achieved considerable results. Guo was the first to discover that the Jiangnan Proterozoic trench-arc basin system formed due to the plate movement and subduction existing in South China, which dispelled the concept that the slab structure was limited to the late phanerozoic time. Guo established the evolutionary pattern of the South China structure, and proved the overall NW-SE transition trend of the subduction slab boundary. He found the distribution pattern of ore belt and oil/gas resources in South China, identified eight indicators of continental margin, and unveiled the formation mechanism of Type A down-going inland slab and foreland basins in China. He based these findings on the pattern of ophiolitic melange, origin and time/space distribution of granite, evolution of the tectonic stress field, features of the deep-seated structure, and terrain makeup and dispersing. In recent years, Professor Guo has been studying the coupling mechanism between the mainland dynamics and mountain basins.

Guo Lingzhi was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.