Dr Renjie Zhou
Senior Lecturer in Geochronology an
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
+61 7 344 31437
Steele Building (03), Room 256c
Researcher biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Geochronology and Tectonics at School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. My research advances fundamentals of Plate Tectonics, the unique and unifying theory for our home planet. My group uses a set of field, laboratory, and computational approaches to reveal the geologic history of modern and ancient plate boundaries, focusing on reconstructing the evolution of plate-margin mountains and basins. Such regions are among the most dynamic in the Earth system: their development alters regional and global climate, impacts biogeographic evolution, triggers earthquakes and other geologic hazards, and determines formation and distribution of natural resources such as critical minerals. I have been fortunate to work in some of the most rewarding areas for geologists, including the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau, Central Andes, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands.
I am the lead of UQ Thermochronology Lab that focuses on apatite fission-track analysis. As an in-depth user of UQ CGMS (Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry), I also work with laser ablation ICP-MS with recent work around laser ablation U-Pb dating of low-U mineral phases such as calcite, hydrothermal garnet, and fluorite.
PhD/MPhil studies: UQ offers a competitive scholarship package, including a full tuition support at ~AU$46,000/year, a stipend at ~AU$30,000/year, and additional opportunities for tutoring or teaching assistantship. PhD students could commence their studies at UQ in January, April, July, or October. Get in touch if you're interested in learning more about possible projects with our team.
A YouTube video about a course that I teach at UQ: https://youtu.be/31TV3wUOv1Q
Personal website: rzhou.com
Social media: Twitter (mountain2basin), Instagram (mountain2basin)
Tectonic and Biostratigraphy Research Group: At UQ, I am a part of a larger team that specializes in tectonics, the Tectonic and Biostratigraphy Research Group. Collectively, our research focuses on Earth processes that range from the recycled mantle wedge, continental collision, mountain building, to sediment delivery. We hold expertise in field geology, sedimentary geology, geochronology, thermochronology, and micropaleontology.
Publications
Journal Articles
Li, Ruibao, Pei, Xianzhi, Zhou, Renjie, Li, Zuochen, Pei, Lei, Chen, Guochao, Chen, Youxin and Liu, Chengjun (2023). Magmatic response to the closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean: A case study from the middle Paleozoic granitoids in the Kunlun Orogen, western China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 242 105513, 105513. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105513
Rembe, Johannes, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Terbishalieva, Baiansulu, Musiol, Antje, Chen, Jie and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Geochronology, Geochemistry, and Geodynamic Implications of Permo-Triassic Back-Arc Basin Successions in the North Pamir, Central Asia. Lithosphere, 2022 (1). doi: 10.2113/2022/7514691
Sun, Yaobin, Zhang, Yunfeng, Xi, Aihua, Tang, Yu, Zhou, Renjie, Liu, Dongxi and Chen, Shouchun (2022). Petrographic and geochemical characteristics of oncolites in the Ediacaran Dengying Formation of the Upper Yangtze Area, China: Implications for their Paleo-environment. Sedimentary Geology, 442 106296, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106296
Wang, Yang, Wang, Yuejun, Zhang, Peizhen, Zhang, Jinjiang, Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Yuzhi, Zhou, Renjie, Seagren, Erin G., Qian, Xin and Li, Zhangjun (2022). Kinematics and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Lincang-Inthanon tectonic belt: Implication for Cenozoic tectonic extrusion of SE Asia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 134 (11-12), 2854-2866. doi: 10.1130/B36187.1
He, Xiaohu, Zhao, Jianxin, Zhou, Renjie, Feng, Yuexing, Leonard, Nicole, Li, Fei, Liu, Zheng, Li, Wanting and Tan, Shucheng (2022). The distribution and substitution mechanism of trace elements in cassiterites: constraints from LA-ICP-MS U Pb dating, elemental mapping and in situ trace element analyses of the Gejiu tin polymetallic deposit, SW China. Chemical Geology, 609 121063, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121063
Chen, Yichao, Liu, Jiahui, Zhou, Renjie, Xiao, Wenjiao, Zhang, Ji’en, Zhang, Zhiyong, Zhang, Qian W. L., Li, Zhen M. G. and Wu, Chunming (2022). Constraint on the temperature of A-type magma from contact metamorphic aureole, Biesituobie batholith, West Junggar in NW China, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. GSA Bulletin, 1-15. doi: 10.1130/b36541.1
Chen, Yichao, Liu, Jiahui, Zhou, Renjie, Xiao, Wenjiao, Zhang, Ji'en, Zhang, Zhiyong, Zhang, Qian W. L., Li, Zhen M. G. and Wu, Chunming (2022). Extensional magmatism caused by strain partitioning: insights from the mafic dikes hosted in Biesituobie batholith in West Junggar, CAOB. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 112 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s00531-022-02234-w
McMillan, Mitchell, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Tye, Alexander, McMillan, Malcolm F. and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Eocene to Quaternary deformation of the Southern Puna Plateau: Thermochronology, geochronology, and structural geology of an Andean Hinterland Basin (NW Argentina). Tectonics, 41 (6) e2022TC007252. doi: 10.1029/2022tc007252
Jia, Jianliang, Liu, Zhaojun, Zhou, Renjie, Liu, Rong and Gao, Yuan (2022). Variation in pore space and structure of organic-rich oil-prone shales from a non-marine basin: constraints from organic matter and minerals. Acta Geologica Sinica, 96 (3), 1057-1069. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14794
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Ireland, Trevor, Heizler, Matthew, Patias, Daniel, Lesimple, Stephane, Maurizot, Pierre and Teyssier, Christian (2022). Direct dating of podiform Chromitite: U-Pb (Zircon, Rutile) and 40Ar/39Ar (Pargasite) evidence from Tiébaghi Cr deposit (New Caledonia). Ore Geology Reviews, 145 104873, 104873. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104873
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Buchs, David M., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zhao, Jianxin (2022). Paleozoic ocean plate stratigraphy unraveled by calcite U-Pb dating of basalt and biostratigraphy. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1) 113. doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00446-1
Yang, Peng, Huang, Qiang-tai, Zhang, Kai-Jun, Kapsiotis, Argyrios, Zheng, Hao, Peng, Tou-Ping, Zhou, Renjie, Yang, Qing-Kun, Luo, Wen-xing and Xia, Bin (2022). Compositional signatures of ophiolitic rocks from the Dongco massif: novel insights into the evolution of the central Tibetan Meso-Tethyan oceanic plateau. Lithos, 416-417 106660, 106660. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106660
Rembe, Johannes, Zhou, Renjie, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Chen, Jie, Zhao, Jian-Xin, Feng, Yuexing and Howard, Daryl L. (2022). Calcite U–Pb dating of altered ancient oceanic crust in the North Pamir, Central Asia. Geochronology, 4 (1), 227-250. doi: 10.5194/gchron-4-227-2022
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Niu, Manlan, Buckman, Solomon, Xiao, Wenjiao, Zhou, Renjie, Chen, Lei and Li, Junhui (2022). Arc-continent collision during culmination of Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure in the Central Qilian belt, NE Tibetan Plateau. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 134 (11-12), 3079-3098. doi: 10.1130/B36328.1
Tye, Alexander, McMillan, Mitchell, Schoenbohm, Lindsay and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Late Cenozoic extensional formation of the Antofalla depression, southern Puna plateau, Argentina: an effect of lithospheric foundering?. Tectonics, 41 (3) e2021TC006807. doi: 10.1029/2021tc006807
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2022). A single Dras‐Kohistan‐Ladakh arc revealed by volcaniclastic records. G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23 (3) e2021GC010042. doi: 10.1029/2021gc010042
Saktura, Wanchese M., Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P. and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Jurassic–Cretaceous arc magmatism along the Shyok–Bangong Suture from NW Himalaya: Formation of the peri-Gondwana basement to the Ladakh Arc. Journal of the Geological Society, 179 (2) jgs2021-035, 1-24. doi: 10.1144/jgs2021-035
Wang, Yang, Wang, Yuejun, Zhang, Peizhen, Zhang, Jinjiang, Zhang, Bo, Liu-Zeng, Jing, Zhou, Renjie, Wang, Weitao, Zhang, Huiping and Li, Zhangjun (2022). Cenozoic tectonic evolution of regional fault systems in the SE Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences, 65 (4), 601-623. doi: 10.1007/s11430-021-9880-3
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cluzel, Dominique, Ireland, Trevor R., Zhou, Renjie, Lian, Dongyang, Patias, Daniel, Yan, Zhen and Yang, Jingsui (2022). Solid-phase transfer into the forearc mantle wedge: rutile and zircon xenocrysts fingerprint subducting sources. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577 117251, 117251. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117251
Ge, Xiang, Shen, Chuanbo, Zhou, Renjie, He, Peng, Zhao, Jianxin and Feng, Yuexing (2021). Tracing fluid evolution in sedimentary basins with calcite geochemical, isotopic and U-Pb geochronological data: Implications for petroleum and mineral resource accumulation in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 134 (7-8), 2097-2114. doi: 10.1130/b36168.1
Yang, Peng, Ren, Zhanli, Zhou, Renjie, Cui, Junping, Qi, Kai, Fu, Jinhua, Li, Jinbu, Liu, Xinshe, Li, Wenhou and Wang, Kun (2021). Tectonic evolution and controls on natural gas generation and accumulation in the Ordovician system of the Ordos Basin, North China. Energy Reports, 7, 6887-6898. doi: 10.1016/j.egyr.2021.10.066
Li, Chaopeng, Zheng, Dewen, Zhou, Renjie, Wang, Weitao, Yu, Jingxing, Liu, Caicai, Wang, Yizhou, Pang, Jianzhang, Ma, Yan, Hao, Yuqi, Li, Youjuan and Wang, Xueye (2021). Topographic growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the middle‐late Miocene: insights from integrated provenance analysis in the NE Qaidam Basin. Basin Research, 33 (6) bre.12600, 3212-3230. doi: 10.1111/bre.12600
Jia, Jianliang, Zhou, Renjie, Liu, Zhaojun, Han, Xuehui and Gao, Yuan (2021). Organic matter-driven electrical resistivity of immature lacustrine oil-prone shales. Geophysics, 86 (4), 1-14. doi: 10.1190/geo2020-0238.1
Saktura, Wanchese M., Buckman, Solomon, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zhou, Renjie (2021). Paleogene magmatic flex and flux in the Ladakh Arc, NW Himalaya: chronostratigraphy of the Khardung Formation. Lithos, 388-389 106053, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106053
Li, Chaopeng, Zheng, Dewen, Zhou, Renjie, Yu, Jingxing, Wang, Yizhou, Pang, Jianzhang, Wang, Ying, Hao, Yuqi and Li, Youjuan (2021). Late Oligocene tectonic uplift of the East Kunlun Shan: expansion of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (3). doi: 10.1029/2020gl091281
Rembe, Johannes, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Zhou, Renjie, Thiede, Rasmus and Chen, Jie (2021). The Carboniferous arc of the north Pamir. Lithosphere, 2021 (1) 6697858, 1-26. doi: 10.2113/2021/6697858
Walsh, Jessica M.J., Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P. and Zhou, Renjie (2021). The significance of Upper Jurassic felsic volcanic rocks within the incipient, intraoceanic Dras Arc, Ladakh, NW Himalaya. Gondwana Research, 90, 199-219. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2020.11.007
Jonell, Tara N., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia (2020). Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248 106475, 106475. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106475
Zhang, Yi-Peng, Zheng, Wen-Jun, Wang, Wei-Tao, Tian, Yun-Tao, Zhou, Renjie, Xu, Bin-Bin, Li, Min-Juan, Yan, Yong-Gang, Tian, Qing-Ying and Zhang, Pei-Zhen (2020). Rapid Eocene exhumation of the West Qinling Belt: implications for the growth of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Lithosphere, 2020 (1) 8294751, 1-12. doi: 10.2113/2020/8294751
Li, Zhangjun, Wang, Yang, Gan, Weijun, Fang, Lihua, Zhou, Renjie, Seagren, Erin G., Zhang, Huiping, Liang, Shiming, Zhuang, Wenquan and Yang, Fan (2020). Diffuse deformation in the SE Tibetan Plateau: new insights from geodetic observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125 (10) e2020JB019383. doi: 10.1029/2020jb019383
Zhu, Xiangfeng, Shen, Chuanbo, Zhou, Renjie, Xu, Jianyong, Zhao, Jianxin, Wang, Liang and Ge, Xiang (2020). Paleogene sediment provenance and paleogeographic reconstruction of the South Yellow Sea Basin, East China: constraints from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and heavy mineral assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 553 109776, 109776. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109776
Wang, Yang, Wang, Yuejun, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zhang, Peizhen, Zhang, Bo, Sobel, Edward R., Zhou, Renjie, Shi, Xuhua, Zhang, Jinjiang, Stockli, Daniel F. and Guo, Xiaofei (2020). Cenozoic Exhumation of the Ailaoshan‐Red River Shear Zone: New Insights From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology. Tectonics, 39 (9) e2020TC006151. doi: 10.1029/2020tc006151
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Buckman, Solomon and Chen, Lei (2020). Silurian sedimentation in the South Qilian Belt: arc‐continent collision‐related deposition in the NE Tibet Plateau?. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 94 (4) 1755-6724.14551, 901-913. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14551
Lokho, Kapesa, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Whiso, Kezhakielie, Lhoupenyi, David, Zhou, Renjie and Raju, D.S.N. (2020). Eocene foraminifers of the Naga Hills of Manipur, Indo-Myanmar Range (IMR): Implications on age and basin evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 191 104259, 104259. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104259
Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Lokho, Kapesa, Sobel, Edward R., Feng, Yuexing and Zhao, Jian-xin (2020). Unroofing the Ladakh Batholith: constraints from autochthonous molasse of the Indus Basin, NW Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (4), jgs2019-188. doi: 10.1144/jgs2019-188
Yang, Peng, Wu, Guanghui, Ren, Zhanli, Zhou, Renjie, Zhao, Jianxin and Zhang, Liping (2020). Tectono-thermal evolution of Cambrian–Ordovician source rocks and implications for hydrocarbon generation in the eastern Tarim Basin, NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 194 104267, 104267. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104267
Chen, Yichao, Zhang, Ji’En, Xiao, Wenjiao, Zhou, Renjie, Song, Shuaihua, Zhang, Zhiyong, Ao, Songjian, Sang, Miao, Zhang, Qian W.L., Li, Rui, Li, Zhen M.G., Liu, Yin, Zhang, Hui C.G., Liu, Jiahui and Wu, Chunming (2020). Late Silurian to early Devonian development of the Chingiz accretion arc, West Junggar: insights into accretion arc evolution in the Central Asia Orogenic Belt. International Geology Review, 63 (17), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1824128
He, Xiaohu, Zhou, Renjie, Tan, Shucheng, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guochang, Jiang, Ziqi and Cao, Yuan (2020). Late Cretaceous-Eocene magmatism induced by slab rollback and breakoff in the Tengchong terrane, SW China. International Geology Review, 63 (3), 294-316. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2019.1709567
Zheng, Binsong, Mou, Chuanlong, Zhou, Renjie, Wang, Xiuping, Xiao, Zhaohui and Chen, Yao (2019). Nature and origin of the volcanic ash beds near the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China: new data and their geological implications. Geological Magazine, 157 (4), 1-13. doi: 10.1017/S001675681900133X
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Buckman, Solomon, Niu, Manlan, Cao, Bo, Sun, Yi, Guo, Xianqing, Wang, Zongqi and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Retro‐foreland basin development in response to Proto‐Tethyan Ocean closure, NE Tibet Plateau. Tectonics, 38 (12) 2019TC005560, 4229-4248. doi: 10.1029/2019tc005560
Yan, Shuang, Zhou, Renjie, Niu, He-Cai, Feng, Yue-xing, Nguyen, Ai Duc, Zhao, Zhen-hua, Yang, Wu-Bin, Dong, Qian and Zhao, Jian-xin (2019). LA-MC-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of low-U garnets reveals multiple episodes of skarn formation in the volcanic-hosted iron mineralization system, Awulale belt, Central Asia. GSA Bulletin, 132 (5-6) 2019TC005560, 1031-1045. doi: 10.1130/b35214.1
Zapata, S., Sobel, E. R., del Papa, C., Muruaga, C. and Zhou, R. (2019). Miocene fragmentation of the Central Andean foreland basins between 26 and 28°S. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 94 102238, 102238. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102238
Wang, Yang, Wang, Yuejun, Zhang, Peizhen, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Jinjiang, Zhou, Renjie, Stockli, Daniel F., Seagren, Erin G., Wang, Fei and Wu, Lin (2019). Intracontinental deformation within the India-Eurasia oblique convergence zone: case studies on the Nantinghe and Dayingjiang faults. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (3-4), 850-862. doi: 10.1130/b35338.1
Walsh, Jessica M. J., Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P. and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Age and provenance of the Nindam Formation, Ladakh, NW Himalaya: evolution of the intra‐oceanic Dras Arc before collision with India. Tectonics, 38 (8) 2019TC005494, 3070-3096. doi: 10.1029/2019tc005494
Yang, Peng, Huang, Qiangtai, Zhou, Renjie, Kapsiotis, Argyrios, Xia, Bin, Ren, Zhanli, Cai, Zhourong, Lu, Xingxin and Cheng, Chiyu (2019). Geochemistry and geochronology of ophiolitic rocks from the Dongco and Lanong areas, tibet: insights into the evolution history of the Bangong-Nujiang Tethys ocean. Minerals, 9 (8) 466, 466. doi: 10.3390/min9080466
Zheng, Binsong, Zhou, Renjie, Mou, Chuanlong, Wang, Xiuping, Xiao, Zhaohui and Chen, Yao (2019). Nature of the late Ordovician-early Silurian Xiaohe section, Hunan-Hubei area, South China: implications for the Kwangsian Orogeny. International Geology Review, 62 (10), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2019.1644541
Wang, Yang, Wang, Ping, Ge, Weipeng, Zhou, Renjie, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Jinjiang, Yuan, Zhaode and Li, Xiaofeng (2019). Differential crustal deformation across the Cona-Oiga rift, southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 177, 177-185. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.03.023
Ma, Xing-Hua, Qiao, Shi-Lei, Xiang, Peng, Grebennikov, Andrei V. and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Heat- and melt-fluxed melting of lower continental crust: Insights from two types of subduction-related granitoids in northeastern China and the implications for crustal reworking and growth. Lithosphere, 11 (4), 488-506. doi: 10.1130/L1054.1
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ao, Aliba, Bhowmik, Santanu, Clarke, Geoffrey L., Ireland, Trevor R., Kachovich, Sarah, Lokho, Kapesa, Stojanovic, Denis, Roeder, Tara, Truscott, Naomi, Zhen, Yan and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints. Tectonics, 38 (5) 2018TC005049, 1718-1741. doi: 10.1029/2018tc005049
Wang, Yang, Zhang, Peizhen, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zheng, Wenjun, Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Jinjiang, Zheng, Dewen, Zhou, Renjie and Tian, Yuntao (2018). Two-phase exhumation along major shear zones in the SE Tibetan Plateau in the late Cenozoic. Tectonics, 37 (8), 2675-2694. doi: 10.1029/2018tc004979
Liu, Wei-Liang, Huang, Qiang-Tai, Gu, Man, Zhong, Yun, Zhou, Renjie, Gu, Xiao-Dong, Zheng, Hao, Liu, Jing-Nan, Lu, Xing-Xin and Xia, Bin (2018). Origin and tectonic implications of the Shiquanhe high-Mg andesite, western Bangong suture, Tibet. Gondwana Research, 60, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.03.017
Bai, Yueyue, Liu, Zhaojun, Sun, Pingchang, Liu, Rong, Hu, Xiaofeng, Zhou, Renjie, Xu, Yinbo, Zhao, Hanqing and Wang, Jianpeng (2017). Diverse sedimentary conditions during deposition Of coal and oil shale from the Meihe Basin (Eocene, NE China). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87 (10), 1100-1120. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2017.60
Wang, Yang, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zhang, Bo, Granger, Darryl E., Zhou, Renjie, Zhang, Jinjiang and Hou, Jianjun (2017). Late Cenozoic landscape evolution along the Ailao Shan Shear Zone, SE Tibetan Plateau: evidence from fluvial longitudinal profiles and cosmogenic erosion rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, 323-333. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.030
Zhou, Renjie, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Sobel, Edward R., Davis, Donald W. and Glodny, Johannes (2017). New constraints on orogenic models of the southern Central Andean Plateau: cenozoic basin evolution and bedrock exhumation. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129 (1-2), 152-170. doi: 10.1130/B31384.1
Meng, QingTao, Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F., Liu, ZhaoJun, Sun, PingChang, Hu, Fei, Zhou, RenJie and Wang, KeBing (2017). Mineralogy and geochemistry of fine-grained clastic rocks in the Eocene Huadian Basin (NE China): Implications for sediment provenance, paleoclimate and depositional environment. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 110 (2). doi: 10.17738/ajes.2017.0014
Wang, Yang, Zhang, Bo, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Zhang, Jinjiang, Zhou, Renjie, Hou, Jianjun and Ai, Sheng (2016). Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ailao Shan-Red River fault (SE Tibet): implications for kinematic change during plateau growth. Tectonics, 35 (8), 1969-1988. doi: 10.1002/2016TC004229
Zhou, Renjie, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Sobel, Edward R., Carrapa, Barbara and Davis, Donald W. (2016). Sedimentary record of regional deformation and dynamics of the thick-skinned southern Puna Plateau, central Andes (26-27°S). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 317-325. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.012
Zhou, Renjie and Schoenbohm, Lindsay M. (2015). Late Miocene upper-crustal deformation within the interior of the southern puna plateau, central Andes. Lithosphere, 7 (3), 336-352. doi: 10.1130/L396.1
Jia, Jianliang, Liu, Zhaojun, Miao, Changsheng, Fang, Shi, Zhou, Renjie, Meng, Qi'an, Chen, Yongcheng, Yan, Lei and Yang, Di (2014). Depositional model and evolution for a deep-water sublacustrine fan system from the syn-rift Lower Cretaceous Nantun Formation of the Tanan Depression (Tamtsag Basin, Mongolia). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57, 264-282. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.05.022
Meng, Qingtao, Liu, Zhaojun, Hu, Fei, Sun, Pingchang, Liu, Rong, Zhou, Renjie and Zhen, Zhen (2013). Geochemical characteristics of Eocene oil shale and its geological significances in Huadian basin. Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Diqiu Kexue Ban)/Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition), 43 (2), 390-399.
Zhou, Renjie, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M. and Cosca, Michael (2013). Recent, slow normal and strike-slip faulting in the Pasto Ventura region of the southern Puna Plateau, NW Argentina. Tectonics, 32 (1), 19-33. doi: 10.1029/2012TC003189
Meng, Qing-Tao, Liu, Zhao-Jun, Hu, Fei, Sun, Ping-Chang, Zhou, Ren-Jie and Zhen, Zhen (2012). Productivity of Eocene ancient lake and enrichment mechanism of organic matter in Huadian Basin. Zhongguo Shiyou Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of China University of Petroleum (Edition of Natural Science), 36 (5), 38-44. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5005.2012.05.007
Sun, Ping-Chang, Liu, Zhao-Jun, Li, Bao-Yi, Liu, Rong, Meng, Qing-Tao, Zhou, Ren-Jie, Yao, Shu-Qing and Xu, Yin-Bo (2012). Geochemical characteristics and their geological implications of oil shale member of Huadian Formation, Huadian basin. Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Diqiu Kexue Ban)/Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition), 42 (4), 948-960.
Conference Papers
Wang, Xin, Zhou, Renjie, Belousova, Elena, Dhnaram, Courteney, von Gnielinski, Friedrich and Lisitsin, Vladimir (2023). Petrological, geochemical, and geochronological characteristics of hydrothermal minerals from the Mount Garnet deposit, northeast Queensland, Australia. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria and online, 23–28 April 2023.
Zheng, Binsong, Zhou, Renjie, Zhao, Jianxin and Howard, Daryl (2023). Dating and characterizing carbonate rocks in Upper Permian reef-dolostone reservoir systems in Sichuan Basin, southwest China: implications for porosity evolution. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria and online, 23–28 April 2023.
Chen, Xingyu, Zhou, Renjie, Wood, David, Stirling, Daniel, Jhala, Kamalendra, Friedman, Ira, Valetich, Matt and Philippa, Lizzy (2023). Geochemical and geochronologic investigations into carbonate veins from historical drill cores in undercover Mt Isa, NW Queensland. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria and online, 23–28 April 2023.
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Ireland, Trevor, Heizler, Matthew, Patias, Daniel, Lesimple, Stephane, Maurizot, Pierre and Teyssier, Christian (2022). Dating podiform chromitite, Tiébaghi Cr deposit, New Caledonia. 23rd International Mineralogical Association General Meeting, Lyon, France, 18-22 July 2022.
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cluzel, Dominique, Ireland, Trevor R., Patias, Daniel and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Ophiolitic biodiamonds – some of subduction’s little gems. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, United States, 12-16 December 2022.
Tye, Alex, Lamb, Andrew and Zhou, Renjie (2022). Stratigraphy and detrital zircon U-Pb age provenance of the Paleogene Claron Formation and underlying strata, southwestern Utah: transition from Sevier to Laramide sources. Connects 2022 - Geological Society of America, Denver, CO, United States, 9-12 October 2022. Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-379915
Patias, Daniel, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Vongsvivut, Jitraporn, Ireland, Trevor R. and Cluzel, Dominique (2022). Hydrocarbon signatures in ophiolitic diamonds, New Caledonia. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, ILL, United States, 12-16 December 2022.
Zhou, Renjie, Armistead, Sheree, Boone, Samuel, Dalton, Hayden, Gleadow, Andrew, Gréau, Yoann, Hodgekiss, Sally-Ann, Kohlmann, Fabian, Kohn, Barry, McInnes, Brent, Nixon, Angus, Noble, Wayne, O’Reilly, Suzanne, Philips, David, Prent, Alexander, Rawling, Tim, Theile, Moritz and Ware, Bryant (2022). The AusGeochem Platform for Geochemistry Data: vision, action, and progress. 2022 eResearch Australasia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 17-20 October 2022.
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone (NW India): New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology. Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021, Hobart, TAS Australia, 9-12 February 2021. The Geological Society of Australia.
Boone, Samuel C., Kohlmann, Fabian, Theile, Moritz, Noble, Wayne, Kohn, Barry, Glorie, Stijn, Danišík, Martin and Zhou, Renjie (2021). AusGeochem and the Future of Big Data in Low-Temperature Thermochronology. Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021, Hobart, TAS Australia, 9-12 February 2021.
Andjic, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Dissimilar age and provenance of the Nindam and Jurutze volcaniclastic formations, Zanskar Gorge, Ladakh (India). EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2021, Vienna, Austria and online, 19-30 April 2021.
Rembe, Johannes, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Zhou, Renjie, Thiede, Rasmus and Chen, Jie (2021). No continuous suture between Kudi and Oytag: new evidence from geochronology and geochemistry data. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2021, Vienna, Austria and online, 19-30 April 2021.
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan (2021). Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the development of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite, New Zealand. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, United States, 13-17 December 2021.
Walsh, Jessica, Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen and Zhou, Renjie (2021). Youngest magmatic age (Early Eocene) from the Neotethyan intraoceanic Dras Arc, Ladakh Himalaya, NW India. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, United States, 13-17 December 2021.
Rembe, Johannes, Zhou, Renjie, Sobel, Edward and Kley, Jonas (2021). Calcite U-Pb dating of Paleozoic oceanic crust in the North Pamir, Central Asia. Goldschmidt Conference 2021, Virtual, 4-9 July 2021.
Boone, Samuel, Kohlmann, Fabian, Theile, Moritz, Noble, Wayne, Kohn, Barry, Glorie, Stijn, Danišík, Martin and Zhou, Renjie (2021). AusGeochem and big data analytics in low-temperature thermochronology. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2021, Vienna, Austria and online, 19-30 April 2021.
Walsh, Jessica Margaret June, Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P. and Zhou, Renjie (2020). The significance of Upper Jurassic felsic volcanic rocks within the incipient, intraoceanic Dras Arc, Ladakh, NW Himalaya. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-17 December, 2020.
Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan C and Sobel, Edward R (2020). Exhumation and uplift of the Ladakh Range, NW Himalaya: New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-17 December, 2020.
McMillan, Mitchell, Tye, Alexander Robert Robert , Schoenbohm, Lindsay M, Zhou, Renjie and McMillan, Malcolm F (2020). Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Antofalla Basin in the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-17 December, 2020.
Rembe, Johannes, Zhou, Renjie, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas and Thiede, Rasmus (2020). Time resolved rutile U/Pb data derived from LA-ICPMS – a case study from the North Pamir. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2020, Vienna, Austria, 4-8 May 2020. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4115
Sobel, Edward, Rembe, Johannes, Kley, Jonas, Zhou, Renjie, Terbishalieva, Baiansuluu and Chen, Jie (2020). Control of pre-existing crustal architecture on Cenozoic formation of the Pamir. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2020, Vienna, Austria, 4-8 May 2020. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-12995
Rembe, Johannes, Sobel, Edward, Kley, Jonas, Zhou, Renjie, Wemmer, Klaus, Chen, Jie and Liu, Langtao (2020). Cimmerian timing of nappe emplacement in the North East Pamir. In: GeoUtrecht 2020, Utrecht, Netherlands, (). 24-26 August 2020.
Rembe, Johannes, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Terbishalieva, Baiansuluu, Zhou, Renjie, Chen, Jie and Liu, Langtao (2019). Carboniferous and Triassic oceanic crust in the North Pamir: paleogeographic implications. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 7–12 April 2019. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft.
Walsh, Jessica, Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Age and provenance of the Dras Arc, Ladakh, NW Himalaya: a detrital zircon record of the Nindam Formation. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2019. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft.
Aitchison, J. C., Buckman, S. and Zhou, R. (2019). Arc-continent collision along the northern margin of India as recorded in sediments of the Zanskar Shelf, Ladakh, NW India. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA, United States, 9-13 December 2019.
Wang, Y., Zhang, P., Schoenbohm, L. M., Zheng, W., Zhang, B., Zhang, J., Zheng, D., Zhou, R. and Tian, Y. (2018). Late Cenozoic exhumation history of the Gaoligong and Chongshan shear zones (SE Tibet). AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2018, Washington, DC, United States, 10-14 December 2018.
Zhou, R. (2018). Exhumation of the Ladakh batholith, NW India. Thermochronology and Noble Gas Geochronology and Geochemistry Organisation Conference (TANG3O 2018), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-23 November 2018.
Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Rembe, Johannes, Terbishalieva, Baiansuluu, Chen, Jie and Zhou, Renjie (2018). A rift basin in the External Pamir – paleogeographic implications for reconstructing the Cenozoic deformation history. Thermochronology and Noble Gas Geochronology and Geochemistry Organisation Conference (TANG3O 2018), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-23 November 2018.
Aitchison, J., Zhou, R. and Buckman, S. (2018). How big was that ocean? - combining new and traditional techniques to inform understanding of ancient ocean basin evolution. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J., Lokho, K., Sobel, E., Stojanovic, D., Feng, Y. and Zhao, J. (2018). Provenance study and the first radiometric age constraints on the Indus molasse in the India-Eurasia collision zone. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J., Lokho, K., Sobel, E., Seward, D., Stojanovic, D., Feng, Y. and Zhao, J. (2018). Emplacement and unroofing of the Ladakh batholith: implications for the evolution of the trans-Himalayan magmatic belt. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Wang, Yang, Schoenbohm, Lindsay, Zhang, Bo, Granger, Darryl, Zhou, Renjie, Zhang, Jinjiang and Hou, Jianjun (2017). River longitudinal profiles and basin-wide erosion rates along the Ailao Shan Shear Zone, SE Tibetan Plateau. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting, Singapore, Singapore, 6-11 August 2017.
Zhou, Renjie and Brandon, Mark (2017). Orogen-scale anticline revealed in the Southern Alps of New Zealand by structural thermochronology. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria, 23-28 April 2017. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft.
Wang, Yang, Zhang, Bo, Schoenbohm, Lindsay, Zhang, Jinjiang, Zhou, Renjie and Hou, Jianjun (2016). Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ailao Shan-Red River fault (SETibet): implications for kinematic change during Plateau growth. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft.
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J. C., Flood, P. G. and Buckman, S. (2016). New constraints on the origins of terranes within the New England Orogen, eastern Australia and their accretion to the eastern margin of Gondwana. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States, 11-15 December 2016.
Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L. M., Sobel, E. R., Glodny, J. and Stockli, D. F. (2016). Non-monotonic cooling history in the southern Central Andes recorded by multisystem low-temperature thermochronology. Thermochronology and Noble Gas Geochemistry and Geochronology Organization Workshop (TANG3O 2016), Perth, Australia, 29-30 November 2016.
Zhou, R. and Schoenbohm, L. M. (2015). Regional deformation of the Southern Puna Plateau, Central Andes, recorded by basin evolution and bedrock exhumation history. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, United States, 14-18 December 2015.
Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L. M., Sobel, E. R., Stockli, D. F. and Glodny, J (2014). Cooling history for the Sierra Laguna Blanca (NW Argentina) on the Southern Puna Plateau, Central Andes. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, United States, 15-19 December 2014.
Zhou, Renjie, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Sobel, Edward R., Carrapa, Barbara and Davis, Donald W. (2014). Sedimentation and provenance of the Antofagasta region of the southern Puna Plateau, central Andes. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014. Göttingen, Germany: Copernicus Gesellschaft.
Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L. M. and Cosca, M. A. (2012). Deformation of the Pasto Ventura Basin of the Southern Puna Plateau (NW Argentina) since the mid-Miocene. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, CA, United States, 3-7 December 2012.
Zhou, R., Schoenbohm, L. M. and Cosca, M. A. (2011). Slow NE-SW to NNE-SSW extension in the Pasto Ventura region of the southern Puna Plateau. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, United States, 5-9 December 2011.
Newspaper Article
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020, 12 01). Teaching an online tectonics field trip during COVID-19 TAG/The Australian Geologist by The Geological Society of Australia 27-28.
Data Collections
Rembe, Johannes, Zhou, Renjie, Sobel, Edward R., Kley, Jonas, Chen, Jie, Zhao, Jian-xin, Feng, Yuexing and Howard, Daryl L. (2022). Supplementary files: Calcite U–Pb dating of altered ancient oceanic crust in the North Pamir, Central Asia. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/8dba1c2
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020). Virtual field trip to the New England Orogen (Version 1). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/e050a7f
Jonell, Tara, Aitchison, Jonathan, Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia (2020). Late Quaternary lake shorelines and ages, south-central Tibetan Plateau. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/95ccdf2