About This Course

 The on-line course presents 11 chapters covering many of the important aspects of low-temperature thermochronology, a powerful branch of geochronology applied by geologists from diverse fields. The coverage of the chapters ranges widely, including theory backgrounds, analytical techniques, modeling approaches, and interpretational methods.

Requirements

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Reference Materials

1.《低温年代学:原理与应用》，ISBN:978-7-03-040951-5，周祖翼编著，科学出版社，2014.09。
2.《Low-temperature thermochronology: techniques, interpretations, and applications》，ISBN: 093995070-7，Peter W. Reiners and Todd A. Ehlers，Mineralogical Society of America Geochemical Society，2005.08。

Lecturer

	Ni TAO Chang’an University Associate Professor Ni received her Bachelor of Engineering in oil and gas prospecting and Bachelor of Art in English from Northwest University (Xi’an, China) in 2011, and a Ph.D. on thermochronology and tectonics from Curtin University (Perth, Australia) in 2015. Ni joined Chang’an University in 2016 as a research fellow. Ni’s current interests focus on applying a range of thermo-/geo-chronological approaches, including (U-Th)/He, fission track, Ar/Ar and U/Pb, to both fundamental (e.g., regional to global tectonics, mountain-building, magmatic records, impact events, environmental/climate change) and applied (mineral and petroleum resources) research.
	Rongxi LI Chang’an University Professor Rongxi Li, Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang'an University. Long-term engagement in the development of hydrocarbon composition and stable isotope analytical methods.
	Qiang YU Chang’an University Associate Professor Qiang graduated from the Department of geology, Northwest University with a Ph.D degree. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Chang'an University and mainly engaged in the restoration of the tectonothermal evolutionary history of sedimentary basins and the uplift/cooling history of orogenic belts with methods and technologies including apatite fission track, apatite/zircon (U-Th)/He, vitrinite reflectance and basin modeling. He has been responsible for funds and research programs including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (a youth fund and a sub-topic of the key fund), a geological survey program for oil shale resources from the Shaanxi Province Geological Survey Center. He’s participated in a survey program for petroleum resources from the China Geological Survey, a "973" project of the national key basic research plan, a special major national project, and a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 10 scientific research papers in some peer-reviewed journals and some were SCI indexed. He is in charge of courses including "Petroleum Exploration", "Oil and Gas Resource Assessment", "Fission track thermochronology and its application to geology", "Petroleum Geology" in the Chang’an University, and have published five text books of "Oil and Gas Resource Assessment", "Petroleum Resources Assessment (English Version)", "Guide book for teaching internship of petroleum exploration", "Guide book for teaching internship of petroleum resources assessment" and "Fission track thermochronology and its application to geology (Chinese Version)". As a main participant, he has won the first prize of the Science and Technology Award of the Shaanxi Province, the first prize of the Science and Technology Awards for the Shaanxi Universities, and the second prize of the Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China. During November 2018 to November 2019, he was visiting in the Thermochronology Laboratory of the University of Melbourne, Australia for academic exchange and teaching cooperation involving mineral mounting, grounding, polishing, etching, gold counting, grain selection, spontaneous confined tracks selection, images capturing, and track density analysis of apatite fission-track procedures and comprehensive geological interpretation.
	Lili XU Chang’an University Lecturer Lili Xu is a lecturer in geology at Chang’an University now. She graduated from China University of Geosciences with a doctor degree in December 2013. The courses taught include English for Geology and Modern Analytical Techniques. She has been in the field of microstructures and deformation mechanisms of minerals for several years, and had a major research program founded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
	Huiping ZHANG China Earthquake Administration Professor Huiping Zhang, Professor, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Research interest: tectonic geomorphology.
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