Xianqing Jing

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• PhD
• Associated Professor at Capital Normal University

The serpentine orogenic belts that formed during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana resulted in geodynamic changes on the planet in advance of the Cambrian radiation. The details of Gondwana assembly associated with the closure of the Mozambique Ocean are enigmatic. We compile published geological and paleomagnetic data to argue that the Tarim...

In order to study the rotations of crustal material along the boundary faults in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, and to better understand the tectonic evolution of this region, in this study we conducted a paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous red beds in the Binchuan and Xiangyun sections near the Chenghai‐Binchuan fault, a branch fault at the north...

Plain Language Summary The India‐Asia collision is one of the essential, important geologic events in the past 500 million years, which not only has affected the land and sea patterns and topography patterns but also affected the global climate and biodiversity. However, when and how this collision occurred remains a long‐standing debate. The size...

The Ordovician–Silurian transition experienced severe, but enigmatic, glaciation, as well as a paradoxical combination of mass extinction and species origination. Here we report a large and fast true polar wander (TPW) event that occurred 450–440 million years ago based on palaeomagnetic data from South China and compiled reliable palaeopoles from...

Owing to the rarity and low quality of paleomagnetic data, great difficulties exist when dealing with the paleogeography of the West African Craton (WAC) prior to the Paleozoic. A dozen recently-dated Proterozoic mafic intrusions in the Anti-Atlas Belt (AAB) of Morocco opens the opportunity for providing robust paleomagnetic poles that could constr...

The duration of the eruption of the Emeis-han large igneous province is hotly debated. We conducted a magnetostratigraphic and geochronological study of the core area of the large igneous province in the Binch-uan area of Yunnan Province, southwestern China, in order to constrain the duration of the eruption. The results of detailed thermal demagne...

The location of the West African craton (WAC) has been poorly constrained in the Paleoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna (also known as Columbia). Previous Nuna reconstruction models suggested that the WAC was connected to Amazonia in a way similar to their relative position in Gondwana. By an integrated paleomagnetic and geochronologi...

A new paleomagnetic and geochronological study was conducted on the Tonian Chéngjiāng Formation from Yúnnán Province, South China, to examine the recent reported true polar wander event (TPW) during 825–750 Ma and clarify the position of South China in the Rodinia supercontinent. Detailed thermal demagnetization revealed two remanent magnetic compo...

The Tarim craton and neighboring terranes in Central Asia, i.e., the Greater Tarim Block (GTB), have been proposed to occupy a "missing-link" position at the heart of the Neo-proterozoic Rodinia supercontinent between Australia and Laurentia. Such a reconstruction is tested with new paleomagnetic data from the GTB, and it is found that high-quality...

The Tarim craton and neighboring terranes in Central Asia, i.e., the Greater Tarim Block (GTB), have been proposed to occupy a "missing-link" position at the heart of the Neo-proterozoic Rodinia supercontinent between Australia and Laurentia. Such a reconstruction is tested with new paleomagnetic data from the GTB, and it is found that high-quality...

Large-scale block migration has been proposed based on Early and early Late Ordovician paleomagnetic data for the South China Block (SCB). However, this is anomalous in terms of the previously reconstructed affinity between the SCB and East Gondwana. A paleomagnetic and petrographic reassessment of the Lower Ordovician sedimentary rocks is therefor...

Estimating the duration of magma eruptions using isotopic dating methods is difficult because of the intrinsic errors of the technique regarding the dated materials (such as zircon). However, the long‐term variation of the geomagnetic field recorded by lava flows can be used to estimate the net duration of an eruption sequence. The Emeishan basalts...

The Mid-late Neoproterozoic strata in the Three Gorges area may record a series drastic changes on the earth system. Although the Liantuo Formation may experience the breakup of the Rodinia and the start age of the Nanhuan glaciation, its age and regional stratigraphic correlation are controversial. In this study, we obtained two SHRIMP U-Pb age of...

A suspected Silurian remagnetization of the Ediacaran strata of South China was proposed decades ago by many researchers, but, there has been no systematic study of its causes and mechanisms. In this study, we investigate the multi-phase remagnetization processes that affected the Ediacaran strata and the possible mechanisms of these remagnetizatio...

A suspected Silurian remagnetization of the Ediacaran strata of South China was proposed decades ago by many researchers, but, there has been no systematic study of its causes and mechanisms. In this study, we investigate the multiphase remagnetization processes that affected the Ediacaran strata and the possible mechanisms of these remagnetization...

New dating data indicate that the Liantuo Formation ended at 715Ma, and hence the constraint of the paleolatitude of the Liantuo Formation will shed a light on the“Snowball Earth” theory. Researchers have obtained reliable paleomagnetic results from the Liantuo Formation, but the inclination shallowing has not been considered by them. In this paper...

New dating data indicate that the Liantuo Formation ended at 715Ma, and hence the constraint of the paleolatitude of the Liantuo Formation will shed a light on the"Snowball Earth"theory. Researchers have obtained reliable paleomagnetic results from the Liantuo Formation, but the inclination shallowing has not been considered by them. In this paper,...

In order to characterize the lateral extrusion of crustal material during the Cenozoic, we conducted a paleomagnetic study of the Eocene-Oligocene Zhushan Formation and Paleocene Muguahe Formation in the central part of the Baoshan Terrane (BST), on the southeastern edge of Tibetan Plateau. A primary magnetic component and a remagentized component...

The mechanism of deformation associated with the Cenozoic collision of India with Asia along the eastern boundary remains a poorly understood aspect of its tectonic evolution of the southwestern South China Block (SCB). Consequently, we carried out a paleomagnetic investigation of Paleogene red beds of the Dayao area of Yunnan province in order to...

The paleogeographic relationship between South China and Australia during the Ordovician is important for understanding the configuration of South China in Gondwana. However, high-quality Ordovician paleomagnetic results for the Yangtze Block are scarce. Here we report the results of a new paleomagnetic study of the Late Ordovician limestones of Wa...