POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, since
1995
Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences, National
Taiwan University, since 2007
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University,
since 2003
President, National Applied Research Laboratories, 2013-2016
Vice
President, National Taiwan University, 2011-2013
Dean, College of Science, National Taiwan University, 2005-2011
Chairman, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, 2002-2005
Panel Convener, Earth Science Subdivision, National Science Council,
2000-2002
Section President, Solid Earth, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 2008-2010
President, Chinese Geoscience Union, 2011-2013
President, Geological Society located in Taipei, 2009.-2011
AWARDS & HONOR
Outstanding
Research Fellow, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chair Professorship, National Taiwan University
Most
Downloaded Award, Island Arc, Wiley-Blackwell
Island
Arc Paper Award, Wiley-Blackwell
Distinguished Research Fellow, National Science Council, Taiwan
Academic Award
in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
National Chair
Professor, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Fellow,
Mineralogical Society of America
Fellow, Geological Society of America
Outstanding
Researcher Award, National Science Council (3 times)
Contribution
Medal, National Center for Natural Sciences and Technology,
Vietnam
Best Young Scientistˇs Paper Award of the Geological Society of Taiwan
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Application of radiogenic isotope (40Ar-39Ar)
geochronology, mass spectrometry,
and principles of mathematics, physics, and chemistry to fundamental
problems in
geology.
Numerical modeling of diffusion and mass transport in open systems.
Mineralogy,
crystallography and transmission electron microscopy of
geochronologically-important
minerals.
Application of petrology to problems in
plate tectonics.
PUBLICATIONS
Selected publications:
Lo,
C.H. and Onstott, T.C. (1989) 39Ar recoil artifacts in
chloritized biotite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53, 2697-2711.
Lo,
C.H. and Onstott, T.C. (1995) Rejuvenation of K-Ar isotope systems for
minerals in the Taiwan Mountain Belt. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 131,
71-98.
Yui,
T.F., Rumble, D., III, and Lo, C.H. (1995) Unusually low 18O
ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Sulu Terrain, eastern China.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 2859-2864.
Lo,
C.H. and Yui, T.F. (1996) 40Ar/39Ar dating of
high-pressure metamorphic rocks in Taiwan. Jour. Geol. Soc. China 39,
13-30.
Chung, S.-L., Lee, T.-Y., Lo, C.H., Wang, P.-L., Chen, C.-Y., Yem, N.T., Hoa,
T.T., and Genyao, W. (1997) Intraplate extension prior to continental
extrusion along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone. Geology 25,
311-314.
Chung, S.L., Lo, C.H, Lee, T.Y., Zhang, Y., Xie, X., Li, X., Wang, K.-L. and
Wang, P.-L. (1998) Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau staring 40 Myr
ago. Nature 394, 723-725.
Wang, P.-L., Lo, C.H., Lee, T.Y., Chung, S.L., Lan, C.Y. and Yem, N.T.
(1998) Thermochronological evidence for movement of the Ailao Shan - Red
River shear zone: a perspective from Vietnam. Geology 26, 887-890.
Jahn,
B.M., Wu, F., Lo, C.H. and Tsai, C.-H. (1999) Crust-mantle interaction
induced by deep subduction of the continental crust: geochemical and Sr-Nd
isotopic evidence from post-collisional mafic-ultramafic intrusions of the
Northern Dabie Complex, central China. Chemical Geology 157,
119-146.
Li,
S., Jagoutz, E., Lo, C.-H., Chen, Y., Li, Q., and Xiao, Y. (1999) Sm-Nd,
Rb-Sr and 40Ar-39Ar Isotopic Systematics of the
Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphic Rocks in the Dabie-Sulu Belt, Central China:
A Retrospective View. International Geology Review 41, 1114-1124.
Lo,
C.H., Lee, J.K.W. and Onstott, T.C. (2000) Argon Release Mechanisms of
Biotite in vacuo and the role of short-circuit diffusion and recoil.
Chemical Geology 165, 135-166.
Lo,
C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Lee, T.-Y. and G.-Y. Wu (2002) Age of the Emeishan
flood magmatism and relations to Permian-Triassic boundary events. Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 198, 449-458.
Lo,
C.-H., Howard, K.T., Chung, S.-L. and Meffre, S. (2002) Laser-fusion 40Ar/39Ar
ages of Darwin impact glass. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37,
1555-1562.
Chung, S.-L., Liu, D., Ji, J., Chu, M.-F., Lee, H.-Y., Wen, D.-J., Lo,
C.-H., Lee, T.-Y., Qian, Q. and Zhang, Q. (2003) Adakites from continental
collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet.
Geology 11, 1021-1024.
Chung, S.-L., Chu, M.-F., Zhang, T.-Q., Xie, Y.-W., Lo, C.-H., Lee, T.-Y.,
Lan, C.-Y., Li, X.-H., Zhang, Q., and Wang, Y.-Z. (2005) Tibetan plateau
evolution inferred from spatial and temporal variations in post-collisional
magmatism. Earth Sci. Rev. 68, 173-196.
Whattam, S.A., Malpas, J., Ali, J., Lo, C.-H. and Smith, I.E.M. (2005)
Formation and emplacement of the Northland ophiolite, New Zealand: SW
Pacific tectonic implications. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 162, 225-241.
Wu,
F.-Y., Yang, J.-H., Lo, C.-H., Wilde, S.A., Su, D.-Y. and Jahn, B.-m. (2007)
The Heilongjiang Group: A Jurassic accretionary complex in the Jiamusi
Massif at the western Pacific margin of northeastern China. Island Arc
16, 156-172. [2010 Island Arc Award]
Isik,
V., Lo, C.-H., Göncüoğlu, C., Demirel, S. (2008) 39Ar/40Ar
ages from the Yozgat Batholith: Preliminary data on the timing of Late
Cretaceous extension in the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey.
Journal of Geology 116, 510526.
Yeh,
M.-W., Lee, T.-Y., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Lan, C.-Y. and Anh, T.T (2008)
Structural Evolution of the Day Nui Con Voi Metamorphic Complex:
Implications on the Development of the Red River Shear zone, Northern
Vietnam. Journal of Structural Geology 30, 1540-1553.
Lin,
T.-H., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Hsu, F.-J., Yeh, M.-W., Lee, T.-Y., Ji, J.
and Wang, Y.-Z. (2009) 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Jiali and
Gaoligong Shear Zones and Its tectonic Implications to Crustal Deformation
around Eastern Himalaya Syntaxis. Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 34, 674-685.
Lin,
T.-H., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Yeh, M.-W., Lee, T.-Y., Lan, C.-Y. and Vuong,
N.V. (2009) Indosinian Dextral Activity of the Dien Bien Phu Fault, NW
Vietnam: Constraints from 40Ar-39Ar geochronology.
Journal of Geology 117, 192-199.
Searle, M., Chung, S.L. and Lo, C.H. (2010) Initiation age and geological
offsets along the northern Dead Sea fault, Syria. Jour. Geol. Soc. London
167, 1001-1008.
Tegner, C., M. Storey, P.M. Holm, S.B. Thorarinsson, X. Zhao,
C.-H. Lo , M.F. Knudsen (2011)
Magmatism and Eurekan deformation in the High Arctic Large Igneous Province:
40Ar-39Ar age of Kap Washington Group volcanics,
North Greenland. Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 303 (2011) 203214.
Li,
Z.-X., Li, X.H., Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H., Xu, X. and Li, W.-X. (2012)
Magmatic switch-on and switch-off along the South China continental margin
since the Permian: transition from an Andean-type to Western Pacific-type
plate boundary. Tectonophysics 532-535, 271-290.
Zhang R.Y., Liou, J.G., Sobolev, N,V., Shatsky, V.S., IIzuka, Y., Lo, C.-H.
and Ogasawara, Y. (2012) Tale of the Kulet eclogite from the Kokchetav
Massive, Kazakhstan: Initial tectonic setting and transition from
amphibolite to eclogite. Jour. Metamorphic Geology 30, 537-559.
Tapsoba, B., Lo, C.-H., Jahn, B.-m. and Chung, S.-L. (2013) Chemical and
Sr-Nd isotopic compositions and zircon U-Pb ages of the Birimian granitoids
from NE Burkina Faso, West African Craton: implications on the geodynamic
setting and crustal evolution. Precambrian Research 224, 364-396.
Tapsoba, B., Lo, C.-H., Wenmenga, U., Jahn, B.-m., Chung, S.-L. (2013)
40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of Paleoprotozoic granitoids of
northeast Burkina Faso, West African Craton: Implications for Regional
Tectonics. Precambrian
Research
235,
208-229.
Zhang, R.Y., Lo, C-H., Chung, S-L., Grove, M., Iizuka, Y., Omori, S., Liou,
J.G. & Tri, T. V. (2013) Origin and tectonic implication of ophiolite and
eclogite in the Song Ma suture zone between the South China and Indochina
blocks. Journal of Metamorphic Geology
31,
49-62.
Zhang, R.Y., Lo, C.-H., Li, X., Chung, S.-L., Anh, T.T. and Tri, T.V. (2014)
U-Pb dating and tectonic implication of ophiolite and metabasite from the
Song Ma Suture Zone, Northern Vietnam. American Journal of Science
314, 649678.
Chen, C.-T., Chan, Y.-C., Lo, C.-H. and Lu, C.-Y. (2016) Growth of mica
porphyroblasts under low-grade metamorphism - a Taiwanese case using in-situ
40Ar/39Ar laser microprobe dating. Journal of
Structural Geology 92, 1-11.
Lee, C.-Y., Chen, M.-L., Ditchfield, P., Lin, H.-M., Lin,
L.-H., Lo, C.-H., Pollard, M., Tsai, H.-K. and Wang, P.-L. (2016)
Diet and subsistence mode of Neolithic Yuan-Shan
people in Taiwan: perspective from carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of
bone collagen. Archaeological Research
in Asia 7, 18-27. July 2016
Zhang, R.Y., Liou, J.G. and Lo, C.-H. (2017) Raman spectra of
polycrystalline microdiamond inclusions in zircons, and ultrahigh-pressure
metamorphism of a quartzofeldspathic rock from the Erzgebirge terrane,
Germany. International Geological Review
59:5-6, 779-792. Jan. 2017
Lee, C.Y., Chen, M.-L., Ditchfield, P., Pollard, A.M., Lin,
L.-H., Wang, P.-L., Lin, H.-M., Lo, C.-H. and Tsai, P.-Y. (2017) Dietary
reconstruction of the Iron Age population at Fantzuyuan site, Taiwan,
revealed by isotopic analysis on human and faunal bone collagen.
Archaeological Research in Asia 9, 34-43. March 2017
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