Professor Ching-Hua Lo                   

    Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University

         P.O. Box 13-318, Taipei 106, Taiwan

         Tel:886-2-33662915/Fax:886-2-23635880

         E-mail:loch@ntu.edu.tw

EDUCATION

      Ph.D., Dept. Geological and Geophyscial Sciences, Princeton University 1990

POSITIONS

     Dean, College of Science, National Taiwan University, since 2005

     Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, since 1995

     Adjunct Professor, Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, since 2003

     President, Solid Earth Section, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, since 2007

     Associate Editor, Journal of Geological Society of China (Western

          Pacific Earth Sciences), since 1998

     Convener of Advisor Committee, Chinese Geoscience Union, since 2008

AWARD & HONOR

    Distinguished Professorship, National Taiwan University, 2006-

    Chair Professorship, National Taiwan University, 2007-2009

    Academic Award in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2003

    National Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2003-2005

    Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America, 2002

    Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2001

    Outstanding Researcher Award, National Science Council, 1998-1999, 2000-2001, 2003-2005

    Contribution Medal, National Center for Natural Sciences and Technology, Vietnam, 1997

    Best Young Scientistˇs Paper Award of the Geological Society of China, 1994

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

(A) Research Papers

1.     Lo, C.H. and Wang Lee, C. (1981) Marble enclave in the Chipan granitic gneiss, Hualien, Eastern Taiwan. Proc. Geol. Soc. China 24, 137-140.

2.     Lo, C.H. (1981) Mineral chemistry and polymetamorphism in some gneissic bodies, the Hoping-Chipan area, Hualien, Eastern Taiwan. M.Sc. thesis, National Taiwan University, 127p.

3.     Lo, C.H. and Wang Lee, C. (1981) Mineral chemistry in some gneissic bodies, the Hoping- Chipan area, Hualien, Eastern Taiwan. Proc. Geol. Soc. China 24, 40-55.

4.     Wang Lee, C., Wang, Y., Yen, T.P. and Lo, C.H. (1982) Polymetamorphism in some gneiss bodies, Hoping-Chipan area, Hualien, Eastern Taiwan. Acta Geol. Taiwanica 21, 122-139.

5.     Lo, C.H., Wang Lee, C. and Yui, T.F. (1984) Olivine and chrome spinel in the ultramafic rocks from Fengtien area. Acta Geol. Taiwanica 22, 131-140.

6.     Lo, C.H. and Huang, C.K. (1985) Nephrites with dragon-patterns from the Hsilin area, Eastern Taiwan. Acta Geol. Taiwanica 23, 111-126.

7.     Wang Lee, C., Chen, J.C., Wang, Y., Yui, T.F., Lu, C.Y. and Lo, C.H. (1985) Relics of ancient oceanic crust in the Changchun Formation of Eastern Taiwan. Proc. Geol. Soc. China 28, 10-22.

8.     Lo, C.H., Yui, T.F. and Wang Lee, C. (1986) First occurrence of tirodite in Taiwan. Proc. Geol. Soc. China 29, 80-86.

9.     Lo, C.H. (1987) 40Ar/39Ar isotopic results for the basement rocks of a young mountain belt in Taiwan. M.A Thesis, Princeton University, 47p.

10.   Yui, T.F., Lo, C.H., Lan, C.Y. and Wang Lee, C. (1987) Nephrite/rodingite from Nanao area, Eastern Taiwan. Proc. Geol. Soc. China 30, 22-39.

11.   Lo, C.H. (1988) Chloritization of biotite in the granitic rocks of eastern Taiwan and its implications for isotope geochronology. Acta Geologica Taiwanica 26, 291-315.

12.   Yui, T. F., Lu, C. Y., Lo, C.H. (1988) A speculative tectonic history of the Tananao Schist of Taiwan.  Proc. Geol. Soc. China 31, 7-18.

13.   Yui, T. F. and Lo, C.H. (1989) High-pressure metamorphosed ophiolitic rocks from the Wangjung area, Taiwan.   Proc. Geol. Soc. China 32, 47-62.

14.   Yui, T.F., Lo, C.H. and Wang Lee, C. (1989) Mineralogy and petrology of metamorphosed manganese-rich rocks at Santzanchi area, Eastern Taiwan. Neues Jahrbuch Miner. Abh. 160, 249-268.

15.   Lo, C.H. and Onstott, T.C. (1989) 39Ar recoil artifacts in chloritized biotite.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53, 2697-2711.

16.   Lo, C.H. (1990) Argon release mechanisms and metamorphic effects on the 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of rocks from Taiwan.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University. 270p. 

17.   Lo, C.H. (1991) Research on metamorphic petrology: overview and preview: Evolution 10, 25-27 (in Chinese).

18.   Yui, T.F., Lu, C.Y., and Lo, C.H. (1991) Tectonic evolution of the Tananao Schist Complex of Taiwan: Tectonics of Circum-Pacific Continental Margins (Jean Aubouin and Jacques Bourgois; editors), Proceedings of the 28th International Geology Congress; Bookcraft Ltd., Great Britain, pp.193-209.

19.   Lo, C.H. (1992) 40Ar/39Ar dating methods: principles and applications. Evolution 11, 44-56 (in Chinese).

20.   Lo, C.H., Onstott, T.C. and Wang Lee, C.M (1993) 40Ar/39Ar dating of plutonic/metamorphic rocks from Chinmen Island off Southeast China and its tectonic implications.  Jour. Geol. Soc. China 36, 35-55.

21.   Yui, T.F., Lo, C.H., Lan, C.Y. and Wang Lee, C.M. (1993) Petrology of metabasite and associated garnet-bearing schist in the Sinkang area, New Central Cross-Mountain Road, Taiwan.   Jour. Geol. Soc. China 36, 67-90.

22.      Lo, C.H., Onstott, T.C., Chen, C.H. and Lee, T.(1994) An assessment of 40Ar/39Ar dating for the whole-rock volcanic samples from the Luzon Arc near Taiwan. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.), 114, 157-178.

23.    Lo, C.H. and Lee, C.Y.(1994) 40Ar/39Ar Method of K-Ar Age Determination of Geological Samples Using Tsing-Hua Open-Pool (THOR) Reactor. Jour. Geol. Soc. China 37, 143-164.

24.    Yui, T.F., Wu, T.W., Wang Y.-S., Lo, C.-H. and Lu, C.-Y. (1994) Chemical changes along metamorphosed weathering profiles from basaltic rocks of the Tananao Metamorphic Complex, Taiwan. Chemical Geology 118, 185-202.

25.    Tien, C.-F., Lo, C.-H. and Yui, T.-F. (1995) Stable isotope studies on Cavity-filling Carbonates in Basalt within the Nankan Formation, Hsulin, Northern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica 31, 87-100.

26.    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.

27.    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.

28.    Li, S., Jagoutz, E., Zhang, Z., Chen, W. and Lo, C.H. (1995) Structure of high-pressure metamorphic belt in Dabie Mountains and its tectonic implications.   Chinese Sci. Bull., 40 (Supplement): 139-140.

29.    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.

30.    Yui, T.F., Rumble III, D., Chen, C.H. and Lo, C.H. (1997) Stable isotope characteristics of eclogites from the ultra-high-pressure metamorphic terrain, east-central China.  Chemical Geology 137, 135-147. 

31.    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. 

32.    Wang, P.-L. and Lo, C.H. (1997) 40Ar/39Ar Dating Method and Thermal Geochronology. Ti-Chih 16, 17-46. 

33.    Yang, H.-C., Chen, W.-S., Lo, C.H., Chen, C.H., Huang, H., Wang, X. and Lee, C.W. (1997) 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of granitoids from the Pingtan-Dongshan Metamorphic Belt and its tectonic implications. Jour. Geol. Soc. China 40, 559-586.

34.      Tien, J.-L., Chen, C.-H., Lo, C.H. and Lai, Y.S. (1997) Contrasting cooling rates of coeval granitic plutons in the Zhangzhou Igneous Complex, SE China: evidences from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and Al-amphibole geobarometer.  Jour. Geol. Soc. China 40, 607-624.

35.    Yem, N.T., Wang, P.L., Lo, C.-H., Lee, T.-Y., Chung, S.-L. and Lan, C.-Y. (1997) Thermochronological evidence for the movement of the Ailao Shan; Red River shear zone. Journal of Geology, Series B, v. 9-10, p. 24-32. 

36.    Wang, P.L., Lin, L.H. and Lo, C.H. (1998) 40Ar/39Ar dating of mylonitization in the Tananao Schist, Eastern Taiwan.  Jour. Geol. Soc. China 41, 159-184. 

37.    Chung, S.L., Jahn, B.M., Wu, G.Y., Lo, C.H. and Cong, B.L. (1998) The Emeishan Flood Basalt in SW China: a mantle plume initiation model and its connection with continental breakup and mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary.   In M. Flower et al. (eds.) Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia, AGU Geodynamic Series vol. 27, 47-58. 

38.    Lee, T.-Y., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.L., Wang P.L., Cung, T.C., Hoang, N., Chen, C.Y., Lin, W.P., and Yem, N.T. (1998) 40Ar/39Ar Dating Result of Neogene Basalts in Vietnam and its Tectonic Implication.   In M. Flower, et al. (eds.) "Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia", AGU Geodynamic Series vol. 27, 317-330. 

39.    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. 

40.    Yang, H.-C., Chen, W.-S., Lo, C.H., Chen, C.-H., Huang, H., Wang, X. and Lee, C.W. (1998) Role of the Nanjih Fault on the exhumation of the Pingtan-Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, SE China. Jour. Geol. Soc. China 41, 409-440.

41.    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. 

42.    Li, S., Chen, Y., Emil, J., Zhang, Z., Chen, W. and Lo, C. H. (1998) Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the tectonic outline of the Dabie Mountains, Central China: a continent-microcontinent-continent collision model.   Continental Dynamics 3, 14-31. 

43.    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. 

44.    Liou, Y.-S., Lo, C.-H., Tsai, C.-H., Wang, P.-L. and Chen, C.-H. (1999) Thermochronolgical study of the Dabie Shan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane, east central China.   Jour. Geol. Soc. China 42, 159-188.

45.    Lo, C.H., Chen, P.-J., Tsou, T.-Y., Sun, S.-s. and Lee, C.-Y. (1999) Age of Sinosauropteryx and Confuciusornis - 40Ar/39Ar laser single-grain and K-Ar dating of the Yixian Formation, NE China. Geochimica 28, 405-409. 

46.    Yang, T.F., Wang, J.-R., Lo, C.H., Chung, S.-L., Tien, R.-L., Xu, R., and Deng, W. (1999) The thermal history of the Lhasa block, south Tibetan Plateau based on FTD and Ar-Ar dating. Radiation Measurements 31, 627-632.

47.    Lu, H.-Y., Tien, J.-L., Lo, C.-H. and Chen, C.H. (1999) Thermal modeling and chronological constraints of granitic plutonism in Zhangzhou igenous complex, SE China.   Jour. Geol. Soc. China 42, 493-520. 

48.    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. 

49.    Liou, Y.S., Lo, C.H., Tsai, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Qiu, J. and Li, X. (1999) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of volcanic and intrusive rocks in the Dabie and Sulu terranes, Eastern China, and their tectonic implications.  Journal Geol. Soc. China 42, 521-542. 

50.    Lo, C.-H., Chen, P.-J., Tsou, T.-Y., Sun, S.-S. and Lee, C.-Y. (1999) 40Ar/39Ar laser single-grain and K-Ar dating of the Yixian Formation, NE China: Implications for the early evolution of avian flight and birds. in Pei-Ji Chen (ed.) 'Palaeo-world'. Beijing Publishing House, vol. 11, pp. 328-340.

51.    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.

52.    Lo, C.-H. and Knittel, U. (2000) Lithosphere Dynamics and Natural Resources in East Indochina and adjacent areas  preface.  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 18, 353-253. 

53.    Lan, C.-Y., Chung, S.-L., Shen, J. J., Lo, C.-H., Wang, P.-L., Hoa, T. T., Thanh, H. H. and Mertzman, S.A. (2000) Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics of granitic rocks from northern Vietnam. Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 18, 71-84. 

54.    Wang, P.-L., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Lee, T.-Y., Lan, C.-Y. and Yem, N. T. (2000) Onset of the movement along the Ailao Shan  Red River Shear Zone: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronogical data. Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 18, 85-96. 

55.    Wang, K.L., C.H. Chen, S.L. Chung, C.H. Lo, L.H. Lin, T.F. Yang and H.Y. Lee (2000) Field occurrence, Ar-Ar dating and petrochemical features of volcanic successions in the Mienhuayu off NE Taiwan. Jour. Geol. Soc. China 43, 247-266.

56.    Li, S., Jagoutz, E., Lo, C.-H., Chen, Y., Li, Q., and Xiao, Y. (2000) 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.  In W.G. Ernst and J. G. Liou (eds.) Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphism and Geodynamics In Collision-Type Orogenic Belts .  Bellwether Publishing Ltd. 234-244.

57.    Tsai, C.-H., Lo, C.-H., Liou, J.-G. and Jahn, B.-m. (2000) Evidence against subduction related magmatism for the Jiaoziyan Gabbro, Northern Dabie Shan, China.   Geology 28, 943-946.

58.    Qiu, J., Lo, C.-H., Zhou, J., McInnes, B.A. (2000) Potash-rich magmatism and associated gold-copper mineralization in the Yishu deep fault zone and its vicinity, eastern China. Resource Geology 50, 269-280.

59.    Lan, C.-Y., Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H., Lee, T.-Y., Wang, P.-L., Li, H. and Toan, D. V. (2001) First evidence for Archean continental crust in northern Vietnam and its implications for crustal and tectonic evolution in Southeast Asia. Geology 29, 219-222.

60.    Lo, C.H., Wang, P.-L., Yang, H.-C., Liou, Y.-S. and Tsou, T.-Y. (2001) The Laser 40Ar/39Ar Dating Microprobe of National Taiwan University. Western Pacific Earth Sciences 1, 143-156.

61.    Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Lan, C.-Y., Lee, T.-Y., Li, H.-M., Nam, T. and Sano, Y. (2001) Evidence for Archean continental crust in northern Vietnam and its implications for tectonic evolution in SE Asia.  Gondwana Research vol. 4, No.4, p. 691.

62.    Wang, P.-L., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Lee, T.-Y., Lan, C.-Y. and Thang, T.V. (2001) Reply to the comment by Leloup et al. on ¨Onset timing of the left-lateral movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone: 40Ar/39Ar dating constraint from the Nam Dinh Area, northeastern Vietnam〃.   Jour. Asian Earth Sci. 20, 101-103.

63.    Qiu J., Wang D., Lo C.-H. and Liu H. (2001) 40Ar-39Ar Dating for volcanic rocks of Qingshan Formation in Jiaolai basin, eastern Shandong province: A case study of the Fenlingshan volcanic apparatus in Wulian County. Geological Journal of China Universities 7(3):351-355.(in Chinese with English abstract).

64.    Qiu J., X u, X., Lo, C.-H. (2001) Potash-rich volcanic rocks and lamprophyres in western Shandong Province: 40Ar-39Ar dating and source tracing. Chinese Science Bulletin 46(18):1500-1508 (in Chinese with English abstract).

65.    Chen, Y.-G., Chen, W.-S., Lee, J.-C., Lee, Y.-H., Lee, C.-T., Chang, H.-C. and Lo, C.-H. (2001) Surface Rupture of 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake Yields Insights on Active Tectonics of Central Taiwan. Bull. Soc. Seismol. Amer. 91, 977-985.

66.    Chen, W. S., Huang, B.S., Chen, Y.G., Lee, Y.H., Yang, C.N., Lo, C.H., Chang, H.C., Sung, Q.C., Huang, N.W., Lin, C.C., Sung, S.H., and Lee, K.J. (2001) Chi-Chi Earthquake, 1999 September 21: A case study on the role of thrust-ramp structures for generating earthquakes. Bull. Soc. Seismol. Amer. 91, 986-994.

67.    Wang, F., Lo, C.-H., Li, Q., Wan, J.-L., Zheng, D.-W., Li, D.-M., Wang, Y. (2001) The cooling event around 30 Ma in Northern edge of Qaidam Basin  constrains for 40Ar/39Ar and fission track thermochronology. Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry 20 (4), pp. 228-230.

68.    Yui, T.F. and Lo, C.-H. (2002) Pre-Tertiary tectonic evolution of Taiwan.  Special publication. In ¨Tectonics of Taiwan〃 (ed. by Huang, C.-Y.), published by Geological Scoiety of China and Goephysics Society of China, pp. 167-196. (in Chinese).

69.    Qiu J., X u, X., Lo, C.-H. (2002) Potash-rich volcanic rocks and lamprophyres in western Shandong Province: 40Ar-39Ar dating and source tracing. Chinese Science Bulletin 46(18), 1500-1508 (in Chinese with English abstract). (English version is published in Chinese Science Bulletin 47(2), 91-99).

70.    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.

71.    Chen, W.-M., Huang, Y.-C., Iizuka, Y., Lo, C.-H., Wu, H., Song, S., Yang, J., Xu, Z. and Yang, H.-Y. (2002) Integrated P-T paths of high-pressure rocks and their tectonic implications for the Mountain-building of the North Qilian, China.  Acta Geologica Sinica, 76, 44-62.

72.    Lo, C.-H., Chen, W.-S. and Song, S.-R. (2002) Cold basin in Coastal Range, Eastern Taiwan: inferred from argon retention in zeolite and altered glass during burial heating.  Western Pacific Earth Sciences 2, 221-236.

73.    Liu H., Qiu, J., Lo, C.-H., Xu, X., Ling, W. and Wang, D. (2002) Petrogenesis of the Mesozoic potash-rich volcanic rocks in the Luzong basin, Anhui Province: geochemical constraints.  Geochimica 31(2), 129-140. (in Chinese with English abstract).

74.    Zhang, R.Y., Shua, Y.-H., Liou, J.G. and Lo, C.H. (2002) Discovery of clinoenstatite in garnet pyroxenites from the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, east-central China. Amer. Mineral. 87, 867-874.

75.    Li, X.-H., Zhou, H.-W., Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H., Wei, G.-J., Liu, Y. and Lee, C.-Y. (2002) Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics of Late Paleogene ultrapotassic magmatism in southeastern Tibet. International Geology Review 44, 559-574.

76.    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.

77.    Wang, F, Lo, C.-H., Li, Q., Wan, J.L., Zheng, D.W. and Wang, E.Q. (2002) Unroofing around Qaidam Basin of northern Tibet at 30 Ma: constraints from Ar-40/Ar-39 and FT thermochronology on granitoids.  SCIENCE IN CHINA SERIES B-CHEMISTRY 45: 70-83.

78.    Lee, H.-Y., Chung, S.-L., Wang, J.-R., Wen, D.-J., Zhang, Y., Xie, Y., Lo, C.-H., Yang, T. F., Lee, T.-Y., Wu, G. and Ji, J. (2003) Miocene Jiali Faulting and its implications for Tibetan tectonic evolution. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 205, 185-194.

79.    Wu, F.Y., Jahn, B.M., Wilde, S.A., Lo, C.H., Yui, T.Z., Lin, Q., Ge, W.C. and Sun, D.Y. (2003) Highly fractionated I-type granites in NE China: geochronology and petrogenesis.  Lithos 66, 241-273.

80.    Wu, F.Y., Jahn, B.M., Wilde, S.A., Lo, C.H., Yui, T.Z., Lin, Q., Ge, W.C. and Sun, D.Y. (2003) Highly fractionated I-type granites in NE China (II): isotopic geochemistry and implications for the crustal growth in the Phanerozoic.  Lithos 67, 191-204.

81.    Ho, K.-S., Chen, J.-C., Lo, C.-H. and Zhao, H.-L. (2003) 40Ar-39Ar dating and geochemical characteristics of late Cenozoic basaltic rocks from the Zhejian-Fujian region, SE China: eruption ages, magma evolution and petrogenesis. Chem. Geol. 197, 287-318.

82.    Lan, C.Y., Chung, S.L., Long, T.V., Lo, C.H., Lee, T.Y. and Merztman, S.A. (2003) Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic constraints from the Kontum Massif, Central Vietnam for the crustal evolution of the Indochina Block. Precambrian Research 122 (1-4), 7-27.

83.    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.

84.    Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H. and Lee, T.-Y. (2003) Petrologic case for Eocene slab breakoff during the Indo-Asian collision: Comment. Geology v. 31, p.e7.

85.    Ali, J.R., Lo, C.-H., Thompson, G.M. and Song, X. (2004) Emeishan Basalt Ar-Ar overprint age-clusters define several tectonic events that affected the western Yangtze platform in the Meso- and Cenozoic. Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 23, 163-178.

86.    Zhu, R., Lo, C.-H., Shi, R., Shi, G., Pan, Y. and Shao, J. (2004) Paleointensities determined from the middle Cretaceous basalt in Liaoning Province, northeastern China.  Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 142, 49-59.

87.    Zhu, R, Lo, C.-H., Shi, R., Shi, G., Pan, Y. and Shao, J. (2004) Is there a precursor to the Cretaceous normal superchron? New paleointensity and age determination from Liaoning province, northeastern China. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 147, 117-126.

88.    Yang, J.-H., Wu, F.-Y., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Zhang, Y.-B. and Wilde, S. A. (2004) Deformation age of Jurassic granites in the Dandong area, eastern China: Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronological constraints. ACTA PETROLOGICA SINICA 20 (5): 1205-1214.

89.    Whattam SA, Malpas JG, Ali JR, Smith IEM and Lo CH (2004) Origin of the Northland Ophiolite, northern New Zealand: discussion of new data and reassessment of the modelOrigin of the Northland Ophiolite, northern New Zealand: discussion of new data and reassessment of the model. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 47 (3): 383-389.

90.    Wang, F., Lo, C.-H., Li, Q., Wan, J., Zheng, D., Li, D. and Wang, E. (2004) Onset timing of significant unroofing around Qaidam basin, northern Tibet, China: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar and FT thermochronology on granitoids.  Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 24, 59-69.

91.   Li, X.-H., Chung, S.-L., Zhou, H.-W., Lo, C.-H., Liu, Y. and Chen, C.-H. (2004) Jurassic intraplate magmatism in southern Hunan  eastern Guangxi: 40Ar-39Ar dating, geochemistry, Sr-Nd isotopes and implications for tectonic evolution of SE China. In ¨J. Malpas et al. (eds.) Aspects of the tectonics evolution of China〃.  Geol. Soc. London Special Publication no. 226. 193-216.

92.   Yang, J.-H., Chung, S.-L., Wildes, S.A., Wu, F.-Y., Chu, M.-F., Lo, C.-H. and Fan, H.-R. (2005) Petrogenesis of post-orogenic syenites and crustal growth in the Sulu orogenic belt, East China: Geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic evidence.  Chem. Geol. 214, 99-125.

93.   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.

94.   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.

95.   Lin, L.-H., Wang, P.-L., Lo, C.-H., Tsai, C.-H. and Jahn, B.-m. (2005) 40Ar-39Ar thermochronological constraints on the exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Sulu terrane, eastern China. International Geological Review 47, 872-886.

96.   Qiu JS, Jiang SY, Wang RC and Lo, C.-H. (2005) Petrology and geochemistry of shoshonitic volcanic rocks from Luzong in the Lower Yangtze region, eastern China: Petrogenesis and inferences on the nature of the mantle sources. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A646-A646.

97.   Wu HH, Tsai YB, Lee TY, Lo, C.H., Hsieh, C.H. and Van Toan, D. (2005) 3-D shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle in South China Sea and its surrounding regions by surface wave dispersion analysis. MARINE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCHES 25 (1-2): 5-27.

98.    Yang, T.F., Lan, T.F., Lee, H.F., Fu, C.C., Chuang, P.C., Lo, C.H., Chen, C-H., Chen, C.T.A. and Lee, C.S. (2005) Gas compositions and helium isotopic ratios of fluid samples around Kueishantao, NE offshore Taiwan and its tectonic implications. Geochem. Jour., 39, 469-480.

99.    Yang, J.H., Wu, F.Y., Chung, S.L., Wilde, S.A., Chu, M.F., Lo, C.H. and Song, B. (2005) Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous intrusions in the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure orogenic belt, east China and their relationship to lithospheric thinning. Chemical Geology 222, 200-231.

100.  Lo, C.-H., Yang, J., Yang, H.-Y. and Knittel, U. (2006) Tectonic evolution of the Central Mountains Belt, China  Preface. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences Vol. 28, Issue 2-3, 117-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.09.015.

101.  Yang, J.H., S.-L. Chung, S.A. Wilde, F.Y. Wu, M.F. Chu, C.H. Lo, H.R. Fan (2006) Petrogenesis of post-orogenic syenites in the Sulu Orogenic Belt, east China: Geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic evidence  Reply. Chem. Geol., 235, 186-190. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.04.013.

102.  de Jong, K., Xiao, W., Windley, B., Massago, H., and Lo, C.-H. (2006) Ordovician 40Ar/39Ar phengite ages from the blueschist-facies Ondor Sum subduction-acrretion complex (Inner Mongolia) and its implications for the early Paleozoic history of continental blocks in China and adjacent areas.  Amer. J. Sci. 306 (12), 799-845. DOI: 10.2475/10.2006.02.

103.  Wang, F., Lo, C.-H., Li, Q, Yeh, MW, Wan, JL, Zheng, DW and Wang, EQ (2006) Onset timing of significant unroofing around Qaidam basin, northern Tibet, China: constraints from Ar-40/Ar-39 and FT thermochronology on granitoids (vol 24, pg 59, 2004). JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES, 27 (1): 146-146 JUN 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.03.001.

104.  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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00564.x.

105.  Chan, G. H.-N., Malpas, J., Xenophontos, C. and Lo, C.-H. (2007) Timing of subduction zone metamorphism during the formation and emplacement of Troodos and Baer-Bassit ophiolites  insights from 40Ar-39Ar geochronology. Geological Magazine 144(5), 797-810. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003792.

106.  Wang, F., Lu, X.-X., Lo, C.-H., Wu, F.-Y., He, H.-Y., Yang, L.-K., and Zhu, E.-X. (2007) Post-collisional, potassic monzonite-minette complex (Shahewan) in the Qinling Mountains (central China): 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, petrogenesis, and implications for the dynamic setting of the Qinling orogen. Jour. Asian Earth Sciences 31, 153-166. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.06.002 .

107.  Yang, J.H., F.Y. Wu, C.H. Lo, S.-L. Chung, Y.B. Zhang, S.A. Wilde (2007) Rapid exhumation and cooling of the Liaonan metamorphic core complex: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Late Mesozoic extension in eastern North China craton. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 119, 1405-1414. doi:10.1130/B26085.1.

108.  Chen, YG, Mueller, K and Lo, CH (2007) Earthquake geology and hazards in Taiwan  Preface. JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES, 31 (3): 195-196 NOV 15 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.022.

109.  Huang, X.L., Xu, Y.G., Lo., C.H., Wang, R.C. and Lin, C.Y. (2007) Exsolution lamellae in a clinopyroxene megacryst aggregate from Cenozoic basalt, Leizhou Peninsula, South China: petrography and chemical evolution. CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 154 (6): 691-705. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0218-4.

110.  Li, YL, Zhou, HW, Li, XH and Lo, C.-H. (Luo QingHua) (2007) Ar-40-Ar-39 plateau ages of biotite and amphibole from tonalite of Huangling granitoids and their cooling curve. ACTA PETROLOGICA SINICA, 23 (5): 1067-1074.

111.  Wang F., Zhu, R., Yang, L., He, H. and Lo, C.-H. (2008) 40Ar/39Ar analyses on Quaternary K-Ar standard BB-24: Evaluations.  International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 270, 16-22. doi:10.1016/j/ijms.2007.11.002.

112.  Hoa, T. T., Anh, T.T., Phuong, N.T., Dung, P.T., Anh, T.V., Izokh, A.E., Borisenko, A.S., Lan, C.Y., Chung, S.-L. and Lo, C.-H. (2008) Permo-Triassic intermediate-felsic magmatism of the Truong Son belt, eastern margin of Inodchina. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 340, 112-126. doi:10.1016/j.crte.2007.12.002  

113.  Chan, G., Malpas, J., Xenophontos, C., and Lo, C.-H. (2008) Magmatism associated with Gondwanaland rifting and Neo-Tethyan oceanic basin development: evidence from the Mamonia Complex, SW Cyprus. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 165; 699-709. doi:10.1144/0016-76492007-050

114.  Wang, W.-L., Aitchison, J.C., Lo, C.-H. and Zeng, Q.-G. (2008) Geochemistry and geochronology of the amphibolite blocks in ophiolitic mélange along Bangong-Nujian Suture, central Tibet.  Jour. Asian Earth Sci. 33, 122-138. doi:10.1016/j/jseaes.2007.10.022.

115.  Wen, D.R., Liu, D, Chung, S.-L., Chu, M.-F., Ji, J., Zhang, Q., Song, B., Lee, T.-Y., Yeh, M.W., Lo, C.-H. (2008) Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb ages of the Gangdese Batholith and implications for Neotethyan subduction in southern Tibet.  Chemical Geology 252, 191-201. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.03.003

116.  Liang, Y.-H., Chung, S.-L., Liu, D., Xu, Y., Wu, F.-Y., Yang, J.-H., Wang, Y., and Lo, C.-H. (2008) Detrital zircon evidence from Burma for reorganization of the eastern Himalayan river system. American Journal of Science 308, 618-638.

117.  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, 510526. DOI: 10.1086/590922.

118.  Yang, J.H., Wu, F.Y., Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H. (2008) The extensional geodynamic setting of Early Cretaceous granitic intrusions in the Eastern North China Craton: evidence from laser ablation Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of K-bearing minerals. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24, 1175-1184.

119.  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.

120.  Aitchison, J.C., Ali, J.R., Chan, A., Davis, A.M. and Lo, C.-H. (2009) Tectonic implcations of felsic tuffs within the Lower Miocene Gangrinboche conglomerates, southern Tibet.  Journal Asian Earth Sciences 34, 287-297.

121.  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. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.10.009

122.  Chan, G., Waters, D., Searle, M., Aitchison, J., Horstwood, M., Crowley, Q., Lo, C.-H. and Chan, J. (2009) Probing the basement of southern Tibet: evidence from crustal xenoliths entrained in a Miocene ultrapotassic dyke. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 166, 45-52.

123.       Hou, C.-S., Hu, J.-C., Ching, K.-E., Chen, Y.-G., Chen, C.-L., Cheng, L.-W., Tang, C.-L., Huang, S.-H. and Lo, C.-H. (2008) The crustal deformation of the Ilan Plain acted as a westernmost extension of the Okinawa Trough. Tectonophysics (in press) DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.022.

124.  Chou, S.-J., Lo, C.-H., He, Y.-A., Zhang, J.-G., Iizuka, Y., Na, J.-Y., and Yeh, T.-K. (2008) Argon Isotopic Dating of Neolithic Jade Artifacts and Raw Materials from eastern China and its Implications.  TAO (in press)

125.  Lin, T.-H., Lo, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Yeh, M.-W., Lee, T.-Y., Lan, C.-Y. and Vuong, N.V. (2008) Indosinian Dextral Activity of the Dien Bien Phu Fault, NW Vietnam: Constraints from 40Ar-39Ar geochronology. Journal of Geology (in press)

126.  Chan, G. H., Malpas, J., Xenophonotos, C. and Lo, C.-H. (2008) Tectonic significance of Early Miocene alkalic gabbros in southwest Cyprus. Terra Nova (in revision).

(B) Books and Related Articles

1. Onstott, T.C. and Lo, C.H. (1990) 40Ar-39Ar investigation of thermal history of an accretionary prism in Taiwan.  34th Annual Report on Research of the American Chemical Society, p. 336.

2. Lo, C.H. and Teng, L.S. (1995) Recent studies on the Dabie-Sulu ultra-high pressure metamorphic belts.  Natural Sciences Newsletter, NSC, vol. 7, pp.60-63.

3. Lo, C.H. (1997) Ch. 8 Geochronology. In ¨Introduction to Geophysics〃 Published by Geophysical Soceity of China. (in Chinese)

4. Lo, C.H., Chang, W.-Y. and Tsai, Y.-B. (1997) Organization and Progress on the NSC integrated project: CREATE 1 - Cenozoic collision/extrusion tectonics in East Asia.  National Science Council Monthly, 25(9), 639-643. (in Chinese)

5. Lo, C.H. and Chung, S.-L. (1997) Lithosphere evolution of southeast China (eds.), Jour. Geol. Soc. China, vol. 40, no. 3.

6. Lo, C.H. (1998) Comprehensive Research on East Asia Tectonics (CREATE). Science Bulletin vol. 30, no. 12, p.4.

7. Chung, S.L., C.S.Lee, J.-C. Sibuet, R. Shinjo, T.Y. Lee, S.K. Hsu, C.S. Liu, C.T. Shyu, M.P. Chen, C.H. Lo, K.L. Wang and A.J. Crawford (1998) Understanding the initiation of a continental arc-backarc system and its interaction with Taiwan arc-continent collision by drilling the southernmost part of Okinawa Trough (SPOT). Letter of Intent (Preliminary Proposal) to the International ODP-JOIDES scientific committees.

8. Flower, M.F., Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.H. and Lee, T.-Y. (1998) Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia (eds.) American Geophysics Union, Geodynamic Series. Vol. 27.

9. Chung, S.-L., Lo, C.-H. and T.-Y. Lee (1999) Uplift of Tibetan Plateau and global climate change: exploring the impacts of tectonic evolution on the change of global environment.  Natural Sciences Newsletter, NSC, vol. 11, No. 3, 90-92. (in Chinese)

10. Yui, T.F. and C.H. Lo (1999) Pre-Tertiary tectonic evolution of Taiwan.  Special publication. In ¨Tectonic evolution of Taiwan〃 (ed. by Huang, C.-Y.), Special publication of National Science Council, pp. 145-187(in Chinese)

11. Lo, C.-H. and Knittel, U. (2000) Lithosphere Dynamics and Natural Resources in East Indochina and adjacent areas (eds.) Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 18, no. 3.

12. Lo, C.-H. (2002) Mass extinction, what causes it?! Scientific American (Chinese edition) vol. 3, 68-69 (in Chinese).

13. Lo, C.-H. (2002) Applications of isotope geochronology and metamorphic petrology in revealing tectonic events. Scientific Development Quarterly, vol. 358, no. 3, p. 24-27. (in Chinese).

14. Lo, C.-H., Yang, J., Yang, H.-Y. and Knittel, U. (2006) Tectonic evolution of the Central Mountains Belt, China. (eds.) Journal of Asian Earth Sciences Vol. 28, Issue 2-3.

15. Chen, Y.-G., Mueller, K. and Lo, C.-H. (2007) Earthquake Geology and Hazards in Taiwan. (eds.) Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 31 (3).