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Biography

Zhang Guowei, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanyang, Henan Province. He graduated from Northwest University in 1961.

Zhang Guowei has long been engaged in a multiple subject comprehensive study of Qinling Mountains and proposed several ideas on the formation evolvement of Qinling Mountain's Organic Belt in different development stages and different structural systems. He also introduced ideas on the mountain building process from three plates and two suture zones. Further, he raised several hypotheses concerning non-coupling 3D structure of the earth's crust and mantle, organic dynamics features and the basin and mountain conversion coupling relationship during the frontal study of the Organic Belt, through the observation of geology, geophysics and geochemistry. His research resulted in several achievements and widely used.

Zhang studied the formation and evolvement of the early south earth crust of North China, summarized the unique features of complex deep metamorphoses and deformed small-scale greenstone system and both kinds of structural units compound evolvement. Zhang proposed the study methods and principles of early the Precambrian period and deepened the geologic study of the period. He carried out the comprehensive comparison study of Qinling Mountain and similar organic belts both in China and abroad, introduced the multiple plates and middle and minor oceanic continental plate structural system and dynamic features of Chinese continent and Organic Belt, studied the continental dynamics and advanced and deepened the study of Organic Belt theory and methods.

Zhang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.