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Biography

Ye Zhizheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Central University in 1941 and received a master's degree from Missouri University in 1948.

In the part of his career, Ye Zhizheng engaged in research of carbonatite, classified the causes of formation of carbonatite for the first time in China, and proposed the principle and methods to recognize the depositional conditions of stromatolithic structures by the algal clastic limestone. During the 1960s, Ye organized an early marine geological investigation. In the early 1980s, he engaged in the study of Chinese marginal sea sediments and for the first time, summarized the depositional mechanism of Epipleistocene epoch deposits in the Okinawa submarine channel and pointed out the Okinawa submarine channel contains the features of biogenic sources, volcano sources and turbidite deposits.

During his research of bioherm deposits in the Xisha Archipelago, Ye proposed the depositional sequence and sedimentary facies mode of wind-drift silt limestone and paleosol layers in Epipleistocene epoch. At the same time, he confirmed the existence of wind-drift deposits of the South Sea Kataglacial period and provided the key information for the study of paleo-oceanography.

Ye is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.