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Biography

Ma Zongjin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jilin, Jilin Province. He graduated from the Peking College of Geoscience in 1955.

Ma engaged in the study of geologic structure, earthquake prediction, geodynamics for most of his career. In 1964, he completed a minor structural study of joint qualitative support in stages, which widely was adopted in the teaching of structural geology in China. He also advanced the idea of long, middle and short asymptotic accumulation modes of earthquake, which became the main principle and working procedure for forecasting strong earthquakes in China.

Among his other accomplishments, he founded modern geodynamics, established three global modern geologic structure systems and discussed the rhythm of earth motion and asymmetry. As a result of his studies, he advanced an earth rotation theory based on the layered angular adjusting movement of earth crust, mantle, and earth core and dynamic mode theory. This, combined with thermodynamics, barodynamics and fluid mechanics, resulted in new analysis and integration for the global structural dynamic modes and provided the support for studying disasters and minerals. Ma also put forward a natural disasters reducing system engineering design and fulfilled the study of natural disasters investigation and measures for China.