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Biography

Shen Qihan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Haimen, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Chongqing University in 1946.

Shen engaged in the study of Lower Precambrian geology and metamorphic petrology for many years. In the 1950s, he engaged in the detailed surveying of iron and copper and participated in the summarization of the Chinese Precambrian system for the first time and the compilation of 1:3,000,000 Precambrian geologic mapping. In the 1960s, he focused on research of the Lower Precambrian geology, isotope chronology and metamorphic rock area. Later, he examined iron and copper minerals in Qinghai, Shanxi. In the 1980s, he undertook an in-depth study on the hypometamorphized rock and serious geologic events of platform in North China and participated in the compiling of 1/4,000,000 Chinese metamorphic geologic maps. For the past decade, Shen studied the Lower Precambrian granulite and the chronostratigraphic configuration. His research team discovered the most ancient continental segment found in many years.