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An Yin, Professor of Geology |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 4676 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-8752 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | yin@ess.ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 1, 61, 111, 112, 221, 134, 245, 255 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Structural geology; tectonics; mechanics of the continental crust; geometry, kinematics and mechanics of thrust systems and detachment fault systems; Tectonic evolution of the Himalayas, Tibetan plateau, and North American Cordillera. |
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Education |
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| | BS: Geomechanics, Beijing University, 1982
PhD: Structural Geology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1988 |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Yin, A., 1989, Origin of regional, rooted low-angle normal faults: a mechanical model
and its tectonic implications: Tectonics, v. 8, p. 469-482. | | | Yin,
A., T.K. Kelty, and G.A. Davis, 1989, Duplex abandonment and development during
the evolution of the Lewis thrust system, Glacier National Park, Montana: Geology,
v. 17, p. 806-810. | | | Hacker, B.R., A. Yin, J.M. Christie,
and A.W. Snoke, 1990, Differential stress, strain rate, and temperature of mylonitization
in Ruby Mountains, Nevada: Implications for the rate and duration of uplift: Journal
of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 8569-8580. | | | Yin,
A., T.K. Kelty, 1991, Structural evolution of the Lewis thrust system, southern
Glacier National Park: Implications for the regional tectonic development: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 1073-1089. | | | Yin,
A. and T.K. Kelty, 1991, Development of normal faults during emplacement of thrust
sheets: an example from the Lewis allochthon, Glacier National Park, Montana,
U.S.A., Journal of Structural Geology, v. 13, p. 37-47. | | | Yin,
A., 1991, Mechanisms for the formation of doubly-plunging antiformal and synformal
detachment faults: a three-dimensional analysis: Journal of Geophysical Research,
v. 96, p. 14,577-14,594. | | | Yin, A., 1991, Complex pre-Lewis
thrust deformation, southern Glacier National Park, Montana: Rocky Mountain
Geologists, v. 28, p. 91-103. | | | Yin, A., and J.F.
Dunn, 1992, Structural and stratigraphic development of the Whipple-Chemehuevi
detachment fault system, southeastern California: Implications for the geometrical
evolution of domal and basinal low-angle normal faults: Geological Society
of American Bulletin, v. 104, p. 659-674. | | | Hacker,
B.R., A. Yin, J.M. Christie, and G.A. Davis, 1992, Rheology of an extended middle
crust inferred from quartz grain sizes in the Whipple Mountains, California: Tectonics,
v. 11, p. 36-46. | | | Harrison, T.M., P. Copeland, W.S.F.
Kidd, and A. Yin, 1992, Raising Tibet: Science, v. 255, p. 1663-1670. | | | Yin,
A., and Nie, S.Y., 1993, Development of the Tan-Lu fault as a transform system
during collision of the north and south China blocks, east-central China: Tectonics,
v. 12, p. 801-813. | | | Yin, A., 1993, Mechanics of wedge-shaped
fault blocks I: An elastic solution for compressional wedges: Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 98, p. 14245-14256. | | | Yin, A., and Oertel,
G., 1993, Kinematics and strain distribution of a thrust-related fold system in
the Lewis thrust plate, northwestern Montana (U.S.A.): Journal of Structural
Geology, v. 15, p. 707-719. | | | Paylor, E., and A.
Yin, 1993, Left-slip evolution of the North Owl Creek fault system, Wyoming, during
Laramide shortening, it Laramide Basement Deformation in the Rocky Mountain Foreland
of the Western United States, edited by C.J. Schmidt. R.B. Chase, and E.A. Erslev,
Geological Society of America Special Paper 280, p. 229-242. | | | Yin,
A., 1993, Geology of the Tian Shan region, central Asia, in Encyclopedia of
the World Regional Geology edited by E.M. Moores and R.W. Fairebridge. | | | Yin,
A., 1994, Mechanics of a wedge-shaped fault blocks II: An elastic solution for
an extensional wedges: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 7045-7055.
| | | Yin, A., T.M. Harrison, F.J. Ryerson, W. Chen, W.S.F.
Kidd, and P. Copeland, 1994, Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese thrust
system in southern Tibet: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 18,175-18,201.
| | | Fillipone, J.A., and A. Yin, 1994, Late Cretaceous
thrusting and early Tertiary extension, Cabinet Mountains, Montana: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 1017-1032. | | | Nie,
S., A. Yin, D.B. Rowley, and Y. Jin, 1994, Exhumation of the Dabie Shan Ultra-High
Pressure Metamorphic Rocks and Accumulation of the Songpan-Ganzi Flysch Sequence:
Geology, v. 22, p. 999-1002. | | | Yin, A., 1995,
Mechanical simulation of monoclinal systems in the Colorado Plateau region during
the Laramide orogeny: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 1017-1032.
| | | Forshee, E.J. and A. Yin, 1995, Evolution of a large
landslide in a supradetachment basin, Whipple Mountains, California: Journal
of Basin Analyses, v. 7, p. 181-197. | | | Fillipone,
J.A., A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, G. Gehrels, and J.C. Sample, 1995, Age and magnitude
of dip-slip faulting deduced from differential cooling histories, Hope fault,
Montana: Journal of Geology, 103, 199-211. | | | Yin,
A., and Oertel, G., 1995, Strain analysis of the Ninemile fault zone, western
Montana: insights into multiply deformed regions: Tectonophysics, v. 247,
p. 133-143. | | | Yin, A., and Harrison, T.M. (editors),
1996. The Tectonic Evolution of Asia, Cambridge University Press, 666 pp.
| | | Yin, A., and Nie, S., 1996, A Phanerozoic palinspastic
reconstruction of China and its neighboring regions. In The Tectonic Evolution
of Asia edited by A. Yin and T.M. Harrison, Cambridge University Press, p.
442-485. | | | Harrison, T.M., Ryerson, F.J., LeFort, P.,
Yin, A., Lovera, O., and Catlos, E.J., 1997, A late Miocene-Pliocene origin for
central Himalayan inverted metamorphism: Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
v. 146, E1-E8. | | | Murphy, M.A., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M.,
Durr, S.B., Chen, Z., Ryerson, F.J., Kidd, W.S.F, Wang, X., and Zhou, X., 1997,
Significant crustal shortening in southern Tibet prior to the Indo-Asian collision:
Geology, v. 25, p. 719-722. | | | Kong, A., Yin, A.,
and Harrison, T.M., 1997, Evaluating the role of pre-existing weakness and topography
in he Indo-Asian collision using a thin-shell finite element model: Geology,
v. 25, p. 527-530. | | | Zheng, Y., G.A. Davis, and A. Yin
(editors), 1997, Structural Geology and Geomechanics, Proceddings of the 30th
International Geological Congress, volume 14: VSP, 311 pp. | | | Quidelleur,
X., Grove, M, Lovera, O.M., Harrison, T.M., Yin, A., and Ryerson, F.J., 1997,
The thermal evolution and slip history of the Renbu-Zedong thrust, southeastern
Tibet: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 2659-2679. | | | Yin,
A., and Ingersoll, R. V., 1997, A model for evolution of Laramide axial basins
in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA: International Geology Review, v.
39, p. 1113-1123. | | | Harrison, T.M., Yin, A., and Ryerson,
F.J., 1998, Orographic evolution of the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau: in Boundary
Conditions for Climate Changes edited by T. Crowley, p. 38-72, Oxford University
Press, New York. | | | Yin, A., S. Nie, Craig, P., Harrison,
T.M., Ryerson, Xianglin Qian, and Geng Young, 1998, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution
of the southern Chinese Tian Shan, Tectonics, v. 17, p. 1-27. | | | Yin,
A., Fillipone, J.A., T. M. Harrison, and J.A. Sample, 1998, Fault kinematics of
the western Lewis and Clark line in northern Idaho and northwestern Montana: Implications
for possible mechanisms of arc segmentation, In Berg, R. B., ed., Belt Symposium
III: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 112, p. 244-253.
| | | Yin, A., T. M. Harrison, M. A. Murphy, M. Grove, S.
Nie, F. J. Ryerson, Wang Xiao Feng, and Chen Zheng Le, 1999, Tertiary deformation
history of southeastern and southwestern Tibet during the Indo-Asian collision:
Geologic Society America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 1644-1664. | | | Yin,
A., P. A. Kapp, M. A. Murphy, Manning, Craig, T. M. Harrison, Grove M., Ding Lin,
Deng X.G., and Wu Cun-Ming, 1999. Evidence for Significant Late Cenozoic E-W Extension
in North Tibet: Geology, v. 27, p. 819-822. | | | Rumelhart,
P., A. Yin, R. Butler, E. Cowgill, Zhang Qing, and Wang Xiao Feng, 1999, Cenozoic
vertical-axis rotation of southern Tarim: Constraints on the tectonic evolution
of the Altyn Tagh fault system: Geology, v. 27, p. 819-822. | | | Yin,
A., and T.M., Harrison, 2000, Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen,
Journal of Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 211-280.
| | | Kapp, P. A., A. Yin, C. Manning, M. A. Murphy, T.M.,
Harrison, Ding Ling, Deng Xiguang, and Wu Chun-Ming, 2000, Blueschist-bearing
metamorphic core complexes in the Qiangtang block reveal deep crustal structure
of northern Tibet: Geology, v. 28, p. 19-22. | | | Cowgill,
E., Yin, A., Wang, X., and Zhang, Q., 2000, Late Cenozoic left-slip movement along
the northern Altyn Tagh fault and its possible development as the northern boundary
of a transpressional strike-slip duplex: Geology, v. 28, p. 255-258. | | | Shen,
Z., Zhao, C., Yin, A., Jackson, D., Fang, P., and Dong, D., 2000, Contemporary
crustal deformation in east Asia constrained by Global Positioning System measurements:
Journal Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 5721-5734. | | | Murphy,
M.A., Yin, A., Harrison, T. M., Din Ling, and Guo Jin-Hui, 2000, Southward propagation
of the Karakorum fault system, southwest Tibet: timing and magnitude of slip:
Geology, v. 28, p. 451-454. | | | Harrison, T.M.,
Yin, A., Grove, M., Lovera, O., and Ryerson, J. F., 2000, Displacement history
of the Gangdese thrust, Zedong Window, southeastern Tibet: Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 105, p. 19,211-19,230. | | | Yin, A., 2000.
Mode of Cenozoic East-West Extension in Tibet suggests a Common Origin of Rifts
in Asia during Indo-Asian Collision: Journal of Geophysical Review, v.
105, p. 21,745-21,759. | | | Yin, A., and Kelty, T. K., 2000,
Explanation of coeval normal and thrust faulting in the Mauna Loa-Kilauea rift
system (Hawaii) by magmatic push: An elastic model: Journal of Geophysical
Research, v. 105, p. 25,909-25,925. |
| | Johnston, R., and A. Yin, 2001, Kinematics of the Uinta fault system (southern Wyoming and northern Utah) during the Laramide orogeny: International Geology Review, v. 43, p. 52-68. |
| | Wang, J.H., Yin, A., Harrison, T. M., Grove, M., Zhang, Y., and Xie, G., 2001, A tectonic model for Cenozoic Magmatism in the eastern Indo-Asian collision zone: Earth and Planetary Sciences Letter, v 188, pp. 123-133. |
| | Yin, A., 2001, Tectonic evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen in the context of Phanerozoic continental growth of Asia: Acta Geoscientia Sinica, v. 22, p. 1-30 (in Chinese). |
| | Ding Lin, Zhong Dalai, A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, and P. A. Kapp, 2001, Exhumed Indus-Tsangpo suture at the eastern Himalaya syntaxis (Namcha Barwa): Implications for the early history of the Indo-Asian collision: Earth and Planetary Sciences Letter, v. 192, p. 423-438. |
| | Wang JH, Qi L, Yin A, Xie GH, 2001, Emplacement age and PGE geochemistry of lamprophyres in the Laowangzhai gold deposit, Yunnan, SW China: SCIENCE IN CHINA SERIES D-EARTH SCIENCES, v. 44, p. 146-154. |
| | Shen, Z.-K., Wang, M., Li, Y., Jackson, D. D., A. Yin, Dong, D., and Fang, P., 2001, GPS Study of Crustal Deformation Associated with the Altyn Tagh Fault System: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 30,607-30,621. |
| | Yin, A., 2002, A passive-roof thrust model for the emplacement of the Orocopia-Pelona Schist in Southern California: Geology, v. 30, p. 183-186. |
| | Dupont-Nivet, G., R. F. Butler, A. Yin, and X. Chen, 2002, Paleomagnetism Indicates No Neogene Rotation of Qaidam Basin in Northern Tibet during Indo-Asian Collision: Geology, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 263-266. |
| | Murphy, M.A., A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, C. E. Manning, P. Kapp, F.J. Ryerson, Ding Lin, and Guo Jinghui, 2002, Structural and thermal evolution of the Gurla Mandhata detachment system, southwest Tibet: Implications for the slip magnitude and eastward extent of the Karakorum fault system: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 428-447. |
| | Horton, B.K., A. Yin, M.S. Spurlin, J.Y. Zhou, and J.H. Wang, 2002, Sedimentary basin development during the Cretaceous-Paleogene shortening in the Nangqian-Yushu region of east-central Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 771-786. |
| | Yin, A., Rumelhart, P. E. Cowgill, E. Butler, R., Harrison, T.M., Ingersoll, R.V., Cooper, K. Zhang, Q., and Wang, X.-F., 2002, Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1257-1295. |
| | Deng X.G., Ding L, Liu, X.H., Yin A, Kapp, P.A., Murphy, M.A., and Manning, C.E., 2002, Geochemical characteristics of the blueschists and its tectonic significance in the central Qiangtang area, Tibet: Acta Petrologica Sinica, v. 18 (4), p. 517-525. |
| | Murphy, M. A., and Yin, A., 2003, Structural evolution and sequence of thrusting in the Tethyan fold-thrust belt and Indus-Yalu suture zone, southwest Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 21-34. |
| | Gehrels, G.E., Yin, A., and X. F. Wang, 2003, Detrital zircon geochronology of the northeastern Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 881-896. |
| | Wang, J.H., Yin, A., Harrison, T.M., Grove, M., Zhou, J.Y., Zhang, Y.Q., and Xie, G.H., 2003, Thermochronological constraints on two pulses of Cenozoic high-K magmatism in eastern Tibet: Science in China, Series D-Earth Sciences, v. 46 (7): p. 719-729. |
| | Cowgill, E., A. Yin, T. M. Harrison, and Wang Xiao-Feng, 2003, Reconstruction of the Altyn Tagh fault based on U-Pb geochronology: Role of back thrusts, mantle sutures, and heterogeneous crustal strength in forming the Tibetan plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108 (7), 2346. |
| | Taylor M., A. Yin, F. J. Ryerson, P. Kapp, L. Ding, Conjugate strike-slip faulting along the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone accommodates coeval east-west extension and north-south shortening in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, 22 (4), 1044, doi:10.1029/2002TC001361, 2003. |
| | Kapp, P., M.A. Murphy, A. Yin, T.M. Harrison, Lin Ding, and Jinhui Guo, 2003. Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet: Tectonics, v. 22 (4), 1029. |
| | Chen, X.H., A. Yin, G.E. George, E.S. Cowgill, Marty Grove, T.M. Harrison, and X.F. Wang, 2003, Two phases of Mesozoic north-south extension in the eastern Altyn Tagh Range, northern Tibetan plateau, Tectonics, v, 22, no. 5, doi: 10.1029/2001TC001336. |
| | Gehrels, G.E., A. Yin, and X.F. Wang, 2003, Magmatic history of the Altyn Tagh, Nan Shan, and Qilian Shan region of western China, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, No. B9, 2423, doi: 10.1029/2002JB001876. |
| | Dupont-Nivet, G., Robinson, D., Butler, R.F., Yin, A., and Melosh, H.J., 2004. Concentration of crustal displacement along a weak Altyn Tagh fault: Evidence from paleomagnetism of the northern Tibetan Plateau: Tectonics, v. 23, TC1020, doi: 10.1029/2002TC001397. |
| | Robinson, A.C., A. Yin, C. E. Manning, T.M. Harrison, Shuang-Hong Zhang, and Xiao-Feng Wang, Tectonic Evolution of the northeastern Pamir: Constraints from the northern portion of the Cenozoic Kongur Shan normal fault system, western China: Bulletin of Geological Society of America, v. 116, p. 953-973; doi: 10.1130/B25375.1. |
| | Chen, Z.L., Wang, X.F., Yin, A., Chen, B.L., and Chen, X.H., 2004., Cenozoic left-slip motion along the central Altyn Tagh Fault as inferred from the sedimentary record International Geology Review, v. 46, p. 839-856. |
| | Cowgill, E., Yin, A., Arrowsmith, J.R., Wang, X.F., and Zhang, S., 2004, The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet 1: Smoothing by vertical-axis rotation and the effect of topographic stresses on bend-flanking faults: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1423-1442 (doi: 10.1130/B25359.1) |
| | Cowgill, E., Arrowsmith, J.R., Yin, A., Wang, X.F., and Chen, Z, 2004, The Akato Tagh bend along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet 2: Active deformation and the importance of transpression and strain hardening within the Altyn Tagh system: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1443-1464. |
| | Yin, A., 2004. Gneiss domes and gneiss dome systems, In Whitny, D.L., Teysser, C., and Siddway, C.S., eds., Gneiss domes in orogeny, Boulder Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 380, p. 1-14. |
| | Kapp, P., A. Yin, T. M. Harrison, L. Ding, Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 865-878. |
| | Guo, Z.J., Yin, A., A. Robinson, and Jia, C.Z., Geochronology and geochemistry of deep=drill-core samples from the basement of the central Tarim basin: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 25, p. 45-56. |
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