Research Fields
Dr. Lu Wang engaged her Ph.D in the study of microstructure and P-T-t-D path of ultrahigh pressure eclogite and jadeite quartzite in the Dabie Mountain. Her expertise is integrating the detailed field mapping (with drone mapping technology), structural analysis from the field to the microstructures in the lab, with petrology, geochemistry and geochronology to re-establish P-T-t-Deformation-(Melting) history of UHP-HP metamorphic rocks, understand their deformation and fluid-melt evolution, that is to reconstruct the physical and chemical evolution process, thus to understand the orogenesis and their geodynamics at Phanerozoic and Precambrian convergent plate boundaries. This will help us understand the subduction-exhumation geodynamics mechanism along the subduction zone, deep recycling of material and water, crustal growth and reconstruction, forming the land where people and other living being rely on to live.
In the past decades, her research is mainly focused on the following two topics:
1) Deformation - metamorphism - melting fluid evolution history of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks in Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt. Melt-fluid activity in the subduction zone plays an important role in the rapid exhumation of the deeply subducted crustal material, the magmatic activity and the growth of the continental crust. She reported the first case of large-scale partial melting of UHP eclogite, forming migmatized eclogite during its exhumation. After that, she leads her research group systematically studies its melting reactions and mechanisms, source of the melt, strain localization and microfabrics variation corresponding to melt-fluid events at different stages of exhumation. Her target is to establish the spatio-temporal evolution sequence of P-T-t-D-Melting along the strike of the orogenic belt and figure out the variation rules, as well as its influence on the deformation differentiation, rheological properties and rapid exhumation of subducted materials, so as to deeply understand the physical and chemical evolution process during the exhumation of the continental collision orogenic belt, and provide a basis for the crust-mantle reaction, the formation and evolution of the continental crust and the exhumation dynamics mechanism. The results were published in Nature Communications, EPSL, GSAB, JMG, Lithos and other top journals.
2) Index features for Archean plate tectonic initiation and style. When and how the modern plate tectonic style started is one of the hottest issues and frontier scientific problems in the early evolution of the earth. Taking the Archean tectonic melánge belt, that extending 1600km from the north to the south, from the Central Orogenic Belt of the North China craton as a natural laboratory, searching for the typical structural, petrology and UHP mineralogical evidence that is representative under the Phanerozoic modern plate tectonic regime. Our research team has identified and reported the oldest structure derived from large-scale subhorizontal plate movement (huge thrust nappe structure), Eclogite-facies metamorphosed subducted oceanic crust and UHP minerals in podiform chromite formed >2.5 billion years ago, provide systematic evidences and geological basis for the initiation of modern plate tectonics in Archean.The results were published in Nature Communications, PNAS, Earth Science Review, EPSL, Geology, GSA Bulletin, Precambrian Geology and other top journals.
More than 70 articles have been published. For published articles please visit https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35575221300
In the future, we will continue to work on the mechanism, time limit and melt composition of crust melting under compression-extension conditions (accretion-collision orogenic belt, subduction zone) and different tectonic settings through time (Archean to Phanerozoic) in the world and their contribution to the new grown crust.
Present Research Interests
l Fluid-melt activities of UHP-HP metamorphic rocks and their geodynamic significance from convergent plate boundaries
l Structural-metamorphic evolution, petro-geochronology of high-grade metamorphic rocks and their correlations with melt-fluid activities, arc magmatism, slab failure in collisional mountain belts
l Petrofabrics and rheology on UHP rocks influenced by partial melting and fluid activities
l Archean tectonics, structural-metamorphic evolution process of ophiolitic mélange, OPS
l UHP inclusions and mineral chemistry of podiform chromitites, especially in Precambrian podiform chromitites, and their implications for plate tectonics initiation in the Archean and deep element cycling
Editorial and Administrative Skills
l Scientific committee member, 14th Eclogite Conference, Lyon, France
l Editorial Board Member, Lithos, July, 2022-present
l (Scientific) Associate Editor, GSA Bulletin (GeoScienceWorld), 2020-present
l (Scientific) Associate Editor, Journal of Earth Science (Springer), 2010-present
l Associate Editor, Results in Geochemistry, (Elsevier Open Access), 2020-present
l Associate Editor, Geodinamica Acta, 2018-2021
l (Scientific) Associate Editor, Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geoscience, EI
l Co-section editor for Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier, structural geology and tectonics chapters
l Reviewer of submitted papers from journals e.g. Nature Communications, Geology, GSA Bulletin, Lithos; Reviewers of Master-Ph.D theses major in Geology from different universities of China; Proposal Reviewer from National Science Foundation of China;
l Administrative Assistant to the Director of Center for Global Tectonics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. Tasks: proposal writing and defense, international conference organizer, lab-construction and organization of international collaboration between university professors within China and Outside China.
Teaching Activities
2005-2007 Tectonics and Regional Geology of China, undergraduate course, Ocean University of China
2006-2008 Marine Geology-Plate tectonics, undergraduate course, Ocean University of China
2006-2007 Field digital mapping course in Chaohu, Anhui Province, China, Marine Geology major undergraduate students, Ocean University of China
2005-2008 Class tutor in Marine Geology for undergraduate student, Ocean University of China
2008-2009 Supervise SRTP (student research training program) project for undergraduate students in Ocean University of China
2015-present Global Tectonics, Master-Ph.D. student, University of China Academy of Sciences, co-teaching with Prof. Tim Kusky, bilingual teaching
2016-present Global Tectonics, undergraduate students, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, co-teaching with Prof. Tim Kusky, bilingual teaching
2019 Physical Geology (Metamorphic Geology Chapter), international elite class for undergraduate students, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, English teaching
2016-present Senior Analytical Structural Geology, Master-Ph.D. students, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
2016-present Large Equipment Theory and Application, SEM, Master students, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
2018-2022 Class tutor (Academic supervisor) for undergraduate students, International geology elite class, Grade 2018, school of earth sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (invited)
2022-present Class tutor (Academic supervisor) for undergraduate students, National Everest geology class, Grade 2022, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (invited)
2023 Integrated Structural Geology, National Everest geology class, Grade 2021, school of earth sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (invited)
Supervised Students
Current
l Ph.D students: Wang Zhuocheng, Hu Wei, Peng Yaying,
l Co supervised Ph.D students: Zhong Yating, Ning Wenbin
l Master students: Yang Xiandeng, Hu Die, Zhao Jiayin, Zhang Mengwei, Yan Chao
l Co supervised Master students: Wang Ruizhi, Lin Jingsong
Graduated
l Postdoc finished: Feng Peng, Huang Yang
l Graduated Ph.D students: Wang Songjie, Feng Peng, Huang Yang
l Graduated Master students: Ding Yue, Wang Songjie, Wang Zhenlong, Fu Huaqiang, Li Li, Chen Zhe
l Graduated undergraduated students: Huwei, Wang Zhuocheng, Jiang Changhong, Hu Die, Li Cao An La, Peng Yaying, Luan Zhikang, Liu Xuanyu
Conference Presentation and Talks
Invited talks and post-conference field guider
1. Wang Lu. Partial melting of UHP eclogites, Sulu belt, China—P–T conditions, fluid-melt evolution, deformation and implications for exhumation dynamics,International Eclogite Conference (IEC) 14th,2022-07-11,July 10-13, 2022, Lyon-France
2. Wang Lu. Partial Melting of Deeply Subducted Eclogite Implications for Melt Transport, Rheology and Decratonization. Eos Trans. AGU, 2010 Fall Meet. Suppl., V24B-07
3. Wang Lu. Keynote Talk. 73rd Turkey Geological Congress, Ankara, Turkey, May 24-28th, 2021. Adding time to the P-T history of deeply subducted intergranular coesite-bearing eclogite at Yangkou Bay, central Sulu belt, China.
4. Wang Lu. Discovery of Archean Eclogite Facies Subducted Oceanic Crust. Major NNSFC Project Annual Conference, “Continental crust evolution and early plate tectonics”, 2022-04-16, Xi’an. 太古宙榴辉岩相俯冲洋壳的发现,重大项目“大陆地壳演化与早期板块构造”2022年春季年会
5. Wang Lu. Ten years research progress on the deeply subducted continental crust in the Sulu Orogen: structural, P-T-t path and melt-fluid evolution, Six symposium of Continental Geodynamics, Qingdao, Shandong Province. Invited talk and Post-meeting field guide to the migmatized eclogite location, General’s Hill, Qingdao. 苏鲁造山带深俯冲陆壳十年研究进展:构造,P–T–t 轨迹及熔流体演化,“大陆动力学第六次研讨会”-“多圈层相互作用与宜居星球”青岛会议, 青岛, 2018-10-9至2018-10-9.
6. Wang Lu. Constraints of new zircon chronology techniques (SS-LASS ICP-MS) on the metamorphic age of deeply subducted eclogites under limited fluid conditions. Beijing, China Geophysical Union Annual Meeting., 2018. SS-LASS ICP-MS锆石年代学新技术对有限流体条件下深俯冲榴辉岩变质年龄的制约, 2018年第五届CGU地球科学联合学术年会, 北京, 2018-10-22至2018-10-24..
7. Wang Lu. On the preservation of the intergranular coesite within the UHP eclogite, Sulu belt. The 4th Annual Meeting of China Geophysical Association, Oct., 2016, Beijing. 苏鲁造山带超高压榴辉岩中粒间柯石英的保留,2016年10月,北京,中国地球物理协会第4届年会。
8. Wang Lu. Partial melting of deeply subducted eclogite of Sulu belt. The 15th Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Mineral and Petro-geochemistry, Changchun, Jilin Province, Jun., 2015. 苏鲁深俯冲榴辉岩的部分熔融,2015年6月,吉林长春——中国矿物岩石地球化学学会第15届学术年会。
9. Wang Lu. Partial melting of deeply subducted eclogite in the Sulu orogen. Meeting of the Joint Academic Committee of the National Key Laboratory Alliance of Solid Earth Sciences, 2014. 固体地球科学重点实验室联盟联合学术委员会会议
Talks and Posters
1) Wang Lu. 2022.10.10. New age constraints on the P-T history of deeply subducted coesite-bearing eclogite at Yangkou bay, central Sulu betl, China. GSA2022, October 9-12, Denver, Colorado, USA. Oral presentation (online). DOI:10.1130/abs/2022AM-381617.
2) Wang Lu. 2022.10.11. Partial Melting of UHP eclogite during exhuamtion, sulu belt, China-Fluid-Melt evolution, deformation and implication for exhumation dynamics. GSA2022, October 9-12, Denver, Colorado, USA. Oral presentation (online). DOI:10.1130/abs/2022AM-381676
3) Wang, L., and T.M. Kusky, 2010, Structural geometry of an exhumed UHP terrane in Yangkou Bay, the eastern Sulu orogen, China: Implications for continental collision processes Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia Conference, GSA, Ankara, Turkey, on 4-8 October. Oral presentation.
4) Wang Lu and T.M. Kusky. Structural Geometry of an Ehumed UHP terrain in the eastern Sulu Orogen, China: Implications for Continental Collisioinal Processes. The 3rd IAGR (International Association of Gondwana Research, Gondwana to Asia Symposium) International Conference, Oral Talk
5) Wang Lu. 2018. Partial Melting of the Ultrahigh Pressure Eclogite in the Sulu Orogen, China: Melt Generationand Migration during Exhumation Process, 71rd Turkey Geological Congress, April 4.20-29, Ankara, Turkey. 土耳其第71届地质大会, 安卡拉, 2018-4-20至2018-4-29
6) Wang Lu, Michael Brown, Andew Klark, Philip Picolli, Changhong Jiang. Adding time to the P-T history of deeply subducted intergranular coesite-bearing eclogite at Yangkou Bay, central Sulu Belt, China. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Poster
7) On the survival of intergranular coesite from UHP eclogites, Sulu orogen, 2016AGU meeting, SFO, USA. 2016-12-12-2016-12-16. Poster
8) Partial melting of deeply subducted UHP eclogite from Sulu orogen, China, 2015 EGU meeting, Vienna, Austria. Poster
9) Structural Geometry of an Ehumed UHP terrain in the eastern Sulu Orogen, China: Implications for Continental Collisioinal Processes. Eos Trans. 2009 AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V43D-2305, Poster
10) Wang, L., et.al. 2019, A Decade of Research Progress on the Structure, P–T path and Fluid–Melt Evolution of Deeply-Subducted UHP Continental Crust in the Sulu Belt, China, International Symposium on Structural Geology and Tectonics: Links to Lithosphere Evolution and Mantle Dynamics, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, April 24-26, 2019. www.generalgeology.com
11) Wang, L., Wang, S.J. Brown, M., Xia, B., Kusky, T.M., Polat, A., Piccoli, P, Johnson, T. 2019, Ten years of Research Progress on the Structure, P–T path and Fluid–Melt Evolution of Deeply-Subducted UHP Continental Crust in the Sulu Belt, DEEP 2018, International Symposium on Deep Earth Exploration and Practices, Oct 24-26, 2018, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing.
12) Wang, L.et al., 2015, Partially melted UHP eclogite in the Sulu orogenic belt, China, and its rheological significance to deep continental subduction, in: Central Asian Tectonics and Western Pacific Geodynamics, International Conference, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan China, June 5-7 2015, p. 49.
Students Oral Presentation
1) Chen, Z., Wang L., Brown, M., and Johnson, T.: Changes in deformation mechanism during exhumation of UHP eclogite are related to the presence or absence of supercritical fluid or melt, Sulu belt, China. The Geological society of America 2022 (GSA2022), October 9-12, 2022, Denver, Colorado, USA. Oral presentation (online). doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-381624
2) Chen, Z., Wang L., Brown, M., and Johnson, T.: Deformation mechanisms of UHP eclogites during exhumation varies with the presence or absence of supercritical fluid or melt, Taohang, Sulu belt, China. 14th International Eclogite Conference (IEC-14), July 10-13, 2022, Lyon-France. Poster presentation.
3) Feng Peng, Wang L, etc. Slab failure dioritic porphyries derived from two cratons in a continental subduction zone, Sulu orogen, China, American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting,2022-12
4) Peng Y.Y., Kusky T.M., Wang L. Passive margin-like sequences in amalgamating archipelagos signal continental growth from Archean to present,Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting,2022-10
5) Zhong Y.T., Kusky T., Wang L. Tectonic nappe stacking and crustal architecture in an Archean orogen,Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting,2022-10
6) Zhong YT, Kusky T., Wang L. Tectonic nappe stacking in an Archean suture zone: quantitative structural profile places constraints on orogenic architecture,American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting,2022-12
7) Ning W.B., Kusky T., Wang L. Operation of modern-style plate tectonics in the Neoarchean: Documentation of Archean eclogite facies oceanic crust in the North China Craton,American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting,2022-12
8) Hu W. To the transition zone and back: nanolamellae in chromite reveal deep Archean subduction and carbon cycle,American Geophysical Union, Annual Meeting,2022-12
9) Ning W.B, Kusky T., Wang L. Archean eclogite facies oceanic crust indicates modern-style plate tectonics,International Eclogite Conference (IEC) 14th,2022-07
10) Wang, Z., Wang, L., Brown, M., Johnson, T., Partial Melting of Bimineralic Eclogite by Clinopyroxene Breakdown, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14165, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14165, 2021. 9
11) Feng Peng,Wang Lu,Michael Brown,Wang Songjie,2018. Age, Composition and Origin of In-Situ Leucosome Pockets in Partially Melted UHP Eclogite from the Sulu Orogen, China. EGU-European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018.
12) Feng Peng, Wang Lu. Separating multiple episodes of partial melting in polyorogenic crust: An example from the Haiyangsuo complex, northern Sulu belt, eastern China, International Symposium on Granulite Facies Metamorphism and Early Plate Tectonics, Laiyang, Shandong Province, China, Oct. 2018. 麻粒岩相变质作用与早期板块构造国际研讨会, 中国莱阳, 2018-10-20至2018-10-27
13) Feng Peng, Wang L. Multi-phase partial melting in the crust of the composite orogenic belt: taking the Sulu Haiyangsuo terrane as an example, the 2018 Academic Seminar of the 9th metamorphic Professional Committee, Changchun, Jilin Province. 复合造山带地壳内的多期部分熔融:以苏鲁海阳所地体为例, 第九届变质专业委员会2018年学术研讨会, 中国长春, 2018-5-11至2018-5-16
14) Wang Zhenlong. Deformation mechanism and rheological significance of the Sulu partially molten eclogite. Beijing, Oct., 2017, 4th CUG Conference. 王振龙,苏鲁部分熔融榴辉岩的变形机制和流变学意义,2017年10月,北京,中国地球物理协会第4届年会,口头报告
15) Wang Songjie, Excellent students oral presentation. The 16th Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Mineral and Petro-geochemistry, Xi’an, Shanxi Province, Apr., 2017. 王淞杰,口头报告:“深俯冲陆壳折返过程中变质熔流体形成和演化:以苏鲁造山带复合花岗岩-石英脉研究为例”。 2017年4月陕西西安——中国矿物岩石地球化学学会第16届学术年会,第16届学术年会优秀学生论文
Students Posters
16) Peng Feng, Lu Wang, Timothy Kusky. Slab failure dioritic porphyries derived from two cratons in a continental subduction zone, Sulu orogen, China. AGU22 FALL MEETING, poster.
17) Peng Feng, Lu Wang, Michael Brown, Tim E. Johnson. Melting during decompression of deeply-subducted continental crust: multiple mechanisms and contrasting melt compositions. AGU22 FALL MEETING, poster.
18) Feng Peng,Wang Lu,Michael Brown,Wang Songjie,2017. Multiple episodes of partial melting recorded in the Haiyangsuo complex, northern Sulu belt, eastern China. GSA Annual Meeting
19) Wang Songjie, Wang Lu., Michael Brown. Composite granite-quartz veins in the Sulu belt, China: evidence of supercritical fluid flow during exhumation of deeply subducted UHP continental crust, AGU FALL MEETING, poster, 2016.
20) Wang Songjie, Wang Lu, Michael Brown. Multi-stage barite crystallization in partially melted UHP eclogite from the Sulu belt, China. 2015 EGU meeting, Vienna, Austria.
21) Feng Peng, Wang Lu,2017. Multi-phase melting of rocks in Haiyangsuo area of northern Sulu and its tectonic significance. The 16th Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Mineral and Petro-geochemistry, Shanxi Province, Apr., 2017北苏鲁海阳所地区岩石的多期熔融及其大地构造意义。矿物岩石地球化学学会第16届学术年会。
22) Feng Peng,Wang Lu, 2016. Two-stage melting of deep subduction continental crust and its tectonic significance: Evidence from light-colored granite veins in North Sulu area., CGU annual meeting, Beijing, 2016. 深俯冲陆壳的两期熔融及其大地构造意义:来自北苏鲁地区浅色花岗岩脉中的证据。中国地球科学联合学术年会。
23) Wang Songjie,Wang Lu., Mike Brown. Crystallization mechanism and indication significance of multistage barite in ultrahigh pressure eclogite in Sulu orogenic belt. The 15th Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Mineral and Petro-geochemistry, Changchun, Jilin Province, Jun., 2015. 苏鲁造山带超高压榴辉岩中多期重晶石的结晶机制与指示意义,2015年6月,吉林长春——中国矿物岩石地球化学学会第15届学术年会。
Conference and Short-course Organization, international collaboration
1) Sep25-Oct.2nd., CUG, Wuhan, 2013, Short-course (training course, lab thinsection observation and field excursion), Phase-equilibrium, Migmatites, Crustal melting and evolution. Invited: Prof. Wei Chunjing, Michael Brown, Edward Sawyer, Richard White, Simon Wilde. Attendee: 160 people from over 10 universities and institutions.
2) Dec., 2014. Chief assisted organizer for 2014 Initiation of Center for Global Tectonics, During 2014 AGU Conference, Dec.15th, SFO, USA, 2014
“First International Meeting of Center for Global Tectonics”, and Reception, Serrano Hotel, San Francisco, Dec. 15 2014. Two hours scientific meeting followed by reception, more than 100 guests.
3) Chief assisted organizer for International Symposium on New Theories and Approaches to Global Tectonics and field excursion, Center for Global Tectonics 2nd Meeting, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, July 1-3, 2015. Visit 1.0Ga Miaowan Ophiolite, Yichang, Hubei Province
4) Nov., Wuhan, 2015. Phase-equilibrium modeling technique. Invited: Prof. Wei Chunjing., Center for Global Tectonics.
5) Chief assisted organizer for Tectonics 3rd Annual Meeting and Field Excursion, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2017. Visit 2.5Ga ophiolitic mélange in Zanhuang domain, Central North China Craton, Xingtai, Hubei Province.
6) Conference on “Onset of Plate Tectonics”, China University of Geosciences, 4th annual meeting of Center for Global Tectonics, Wuhan, June 5, 2021.
Professor
Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates
Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Academic Titles : 《GSA Bulletin》Associate Editor、《Lithos》Editorial Board Member,《Journal of Earth Science》Scientific Editor
Official Title : 国际榴辉岩会议学术委员、中国地质学会岩石学
Honors and Titles : China Youth Geological Science and Technology Award, Geological Society of China
Natural Science Award, Hubei Province, China
Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor, Hubei Province
Excellent Ph.D Thesis Supervisor, CUG Wuhan
Gender : Female
Date of Birth : 1978-04-04
Alma Mater : China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
Education Level : Faculty of Higher Institutions
Degree : Doctoral Degree in Science
Status : Employed
School/Department : State Key Lab of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources
Date of Employment : 2005-07-01
Discipline : tectonic geology
Contact Information : wangluouc@qq.com
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