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  DATE:2018-05-24    
Infomation  
Name: Lifei Zhang
Title: Professor
Phone: 01062751145
Position:  
Email: lfzhang@pku.edu.cn
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
1987.08--1990.08 Ph.D. Peking University, Beijing, China
1984.08--1987.08 M.S. Changchun College of Geology, Changchun, China.
1980.07--1984.07 B.S. Changchun College of Geology, Changchun, China.
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
2013.07--to now Dean of School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
2009.01--to now Head of national creative research group of Metamorphism and Orogenic Belt supported by NSF of China
2006.04--to now Chair-professor (Changjiang Professor), Peking University
2005.01--to now Director of The Key Laboratory of Crustal Evolution and Orogenic belt, Ministry of Education, China
2001.10--2013.07 Associate Dean of School of Earth and Spaces Sciences, Peking University, China
1999.07--to now Professor of Petrology, Peking University, China
1993.07--1999.07 Associate professor of Petrology, Peking University, China
1990.07--1993.07 Lecturer of Petrology, Peking University, China
2004.12--2005.01 Visiting Scholar in Department of Geology, Australian National University, Australia. (working with Profs. David Ellis and Richard Arculous )
2003.11--2004.01 Visiting Scholar in Department of Geology, Stanford University, U. S. A. (working with Prof. J. G. Liou)
2000.03--2001.03 Visiting Scholar in Department of Geology, Australian National University, Australia.(working with Profs. David Ellis and Richard Arculous)
1994.01--1995.07 Visiting Scholar in Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. (working with Prof. Min Sun)
1992.10--1993.01 Visiting Scholar in Department of Geology, Stanford University, U. S. A. (working with Prof. J. G. Liou)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of Geological Society of America (2011)
Fellow of Mineral Society of America (2010)
K.T. Huang’s award of Young Geologist of China (2006)
Outstanding Young Scientist Foundation of China (2003)
Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China(2002)
Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong University(1994-1995)
National Nature Science Foundation of China (1993-1995; 1996-1998; 1998-2000; 1999-2002)
Award of the second national young geologist of China (1992)
Award of Guanghua of Peking University(1988).
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
no record
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-editor: Tzen-Fu Yui, Yoshihide Ogasawara, Lifei Zhang, Chin-Ho Tsai, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Special Issue, 2013 (63), 1-250.
Co-editor: Yong-Fei Zheng, Lifei Zhang, William C. McClelland, Simon Cuthbert, Lithos, Special Issue, 2012, (136-139), 1-282.
2014- Co-convener of “Subduction zone metamorphism, magmatism and geodynamics” in GSA meeting in Vancover
2013- Co-convener of “UHP metamorphism” in First Joint Scientific Meeting of GSA and GSC in Chengdu, China
2012- Co-convener of “Processes in continental collision zones” in Goldsmitd conference in USA
2011- Co-convener of Penrose Conference “Comparative evolution of past and present accretionary orogens: Central Asia and the Circum-Pacific”, (Xinjiang, China)
2010- Co-convener of AGU West Pacific meeting in Beijing
2009- The second Secretary-General of Organizing Committee of 8TH International Eclogite Conference (Xining, China, 2009)
2009- Guest Professor of Northwest University, China
2008- Co-convener of “Continental subduction” in 33IGC in Noway
2007- Editorial Board member of The Open Mineralogy Journal (Editorial Office: Bentham Science Publishers in Netherlands)
2005- Guest Professor of China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
2004- Member of Commission on the Solid Earth Composition and Evolution (SECE), International Union of Geological Science (IUGS)
2004- Chinese NSF Review Panel
2004- Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Earth Science Frontiers (Editorial Office: China University of Geosciences, Beijing)
2003- Guest Professor of Beijing SHRIMP center, Beijing, China
2003- Associate editor of Chinese Science Bulletin (Earth Science Version) (Editorial Office: Science Press of China, Beijing)
2002- Editorial Board member of Acta Petrologica Sinica (Editorial Office: Institution of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing)
2001- Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Acta Petrologica & Minerologica Sinica (Editorial Office: Chinese Academy of Geological Science, Beijing)
AGU member since 1993; Member of Geological Society of China since 1990
Mineralogical Society of America since 2009; Geological Society of America since 2009
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
1. Metamorphism and its relationship with Orogenic Belt in NW China,The creative research group project of Chinese Subduction-zone UHP metamorphic fluids and their relation with Arcmagmatism in Southwestern Tianshan, NW China, The large project of Chinese NSF(41330210), 3,100,000 Yuan,2014-2017.
2. Metamorphism and its relationship with Orogenic Belt in NW China(II),The creative research group project of Chinese NSF(40821002), 6,000,000 Yuan,2012-2014.
3. Metamorphism and its relationship with Orogenic Belt in NW China(I),The creative research group project of Chinese NSF(40821002), 5,000,000 Yuan,2009-2011.
4. The chemical change and exhumation process of deep subducted oceanic crust, The project of Major State Basic Research Development Program (Grants 2009CB825007), 3,000,000 Yuan,2009-2013.
5. Deep subduction and fast exhumation of UHP metamorphic ophiolitic rocks in western Tianshan, China,The large project of Chinese NSF(40730314),1,900,000 Yuan,2008-2011.
6. The editorial research on the Chinese map of metamorphic geology, The project of Chinese Geological Survey (2008II-05), 800, 000 Yuan, 2008-2010, Co-PI with Prof. Wei Chunjing.
7. Petrological study of UHP metamorphic rocks in Northwestern China,The Outstanding Young Scientist Projectof Chinese NSF(40325005),1,200,000 Yuan,2004-2007.
8. Petrotectonic study of ophiolite in western Kunlun, NW China, 300,000 Yuan, The project of Chinese Geological Survey, 2005-2007, PI.
9. Diffusion of water in alkali rhyolitic melt, The international communication project of Chinese NSF(40640420141), 250, 000 Yuan, 2007-2009, Co-PI with Prof. Zhang Youxue (USA, Michigan University).
10. The research and teaching of Metamorphic Geology, The Excellent Teacher project of Chinese Ministry of Education (TRAPOYT-0304), 500,000 Yuan, 2003-2007.
11. Geochemstry of Subduction zone, two cases study in western Tianshan and North Qilian mountains, The international communication project of Chinese NSF (40228003), 400,000 Yuan, 2003-2005, Co-PI with Prof. Niu Yaoling (UK, Durham University).
12. The research on the deep continental subduction, The project of Major State Basic Research Development Program (G1999075508), 800,000 Yuan,2001-2005.
13. The petrological study of pumpellyite-bearing lawsonite blueschist and its implication in North Qilianmountains,The general project of Chinese NSF (40272031), 320,000 Yuan, 2003-2005.
14. The petrological study of low temperature eclogite from western Tianshan, The general project of Chinese NSF (49972028), 200, 000 Yuan, 2000-2002.
15. The phase petrology of prehnite-pumpellyite facies metabasalt in western Junggar,Xinjiang, The general project of Chinese NSF (49772103), 150, 000 Yuan, 1998-2000.
16. The metamorphic geology of Aksu Precambrian blueschists, Xinjiang, The general project of Chinese NSF (49572157),150,000 Yuan, 1996-1998, Co-PI with Prof. Dong Shenbao.
17. The burial metamorphism in western Junggar, Xinjiang, The young scientist project of Chinese NSF (49202026), 1993-1995, 65,000 Yuan.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
1. Shen Tingting, Hermann Jőrg , Zhang Lifei* , Lü Zeng, Alberto José, Padrón-Navarta, Xia Bin , Bader Thomas, 2015, UHP metamorphism documented in Ti-chondrodite- and Ti-clinohumite-bearing serpentinized ultramafic rocks from Chinese southwestern Tianshan, Journal of Petrology, in press.
2. Han Lei, Zhang Lifei * and Zhang Guibin, 2015, Ultra-deep subduction of Yematan eclogite in the North Qaidam UHP belt, NW China: evidence from phengite exsolution in omphacite, Am.Min., 0003-004X/15/0809–xxx$05.00/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-4899, in press.
3. Gou Long-Long, Zhang Lifei *, Lü Zeng, Shen Ting-Ting, 2015, Geochemistry and geochronology of S-type granites and their coeval MP/HT meta-sedimentary rocks in Chinese Southwest Tianshan and their tectonic implications. JAES, 107 , 151–171.
4. Shen Tingting, Hermann Jőrg, Zhang Lifei, José Alberto Padrón-Navarta, Chen Jing, 2014, FTIR spectroscopy of Ti-chondrodite, Ti-clinohumite, and olivine in deeply subducted serpentinites and implications for the deep water cycle, Contrib. Miner.& Petrol, 167:992 DOI 10.1007/s00410-014-0992-8
5. Du Jin-Xue, Zhang Li-Fei*, Bader Thomas, Shen Ting-Ting, 2014, Metamorphic evolution of ultrahigh-pressure rocks from Chinese southwestern Tianshan and a possible indicator of UHP metamorphism using garnet composition in low-T eclogites, JAES, 91, 69-88.
6. Du Jinxue, Zhang Lifei*, Shen Xiaojie and Bader Thomas, 2014, A new P-T-t path of HP-UHP eclogites from Chinese southwestern Tianshan: constraints from P-T pseudosections, Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isochron dating, Lithos 200–201: 258–272.
7. Tao Renbiao, Zhang Lifei*, Fei Yingwei and Liu Qiong, 2014, The effect of Fe on the stability of dolomite at high pressure: experimental study and petrological observation in eclogite from southwestern Tianshan, China, GCA, 253–267. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.02.031
8. Du Jinxue, Zhang Lifei*, Bader Thomas, Chen Z.Y. and Lü Z., 2014, Metamorphic evolution of relict lawsonite-bearing eclogites from the (U)HP metamorphic belt in the Chinese south-western Tianshan, JMG, 575–598, DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12080.
9. Bin Xia, Zhang Lifei *, Thomas Bader, 2014, Zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopic analysis of migmatite from the ‘paired metamorphic belt’ in Chinese SW Tianshan: constraints on partial melting associated with orogeny, Lithos, 192–195, 158–179.
10. Bin Xia, Zhang Lifei *, Xia Yang and Thomas Bader, 2014, The tectonic evolution of the Tianshan Orogenic Belt: evidence from U-Pb dating of detrital zircon from Chinese southwestern Tianshan accretionary mélange, Gondwana Research,25, 1627–1643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.06.015.
11. Xia Bin, Zhang LiFei* & Xia Yang, 2014, Petrology and phase equilibrium of newly found eclogites from Kekesu Valley in eastern part of southwest Tianshan HP-UHP metamorphic belt, China, and its tectonic significance, Science China, Earth Sciences, Vol.57 No.1: 117–131 doi: 10.1007/s11430-013-4663-9.
12. Lü, Z., Zhang L.F., and Chen Z., 2014, Jadeite- and dolomite-bearing coesite eclogite from western Tianshan, NW China, Eur. J. Mineral., 26, 245–256. DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2014/0026-2373.
13. Zhang Guibin, Zhang Lifei, Chrisity Andrew, Song Shuguang, Li Qiuli, 2014. Differential exhumation and cooling history of North Qaidam UHP metamorphic rocks, NW China: Constraints from zircon and rutile thermometry and U–Pb geochronology, Lithos, 205, 15-27.
14. Bader Thomas,, Franz Leander, de Capitani Christian and Zhang Lifei, 2014, The effect of water activity on calculated phase equilibria and garnet isopleth thermobarometry of granulites, with particular reference to Tongbai (east-central China), Eur. J. Mineral. 26, 5–23
15. Deng Zhengbin, Liu Shuwen, Zhang Lifei, Wang Zongqi, Wang Wei, Yang Pengtao, 2014, Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes of an Early Cretaceous intrusive suite in northeastern Jiangxi Province, South China Block:Implications for petrogenesis, crust/mantle interactions and geodynamic processes, Lithos, 200-201, 334-354.
16. Song, S., Niu, Y., Su, L., Zhang, C. and Zhang, L., 2014. Continental orogenesis from ocean subduction, continent collision/subduction, to orogen collapse, and orogen recycling: The example of the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China. Earth-Science Reviews, 129: 59-84.
17. Song, S., Niu, Y., Su, L., Wei, C., Zhang, L., 2014. Adakitic (tonalitic-trondhjemitic) magmas resulting from eclogite decompression and dehydration melting during exhumation in response to continental collision. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 130, 42-62.
18. Zhang L F*, Du J X, Lü Z, et al. 2013, A huge oceanic-type UHP metamorphic belt in southwestern Tianshan, China: Peak metamorphic age and P-T path. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58, 4378-4383.doi: 10.1007/s11434-013-6074-x
19. Yang Xin, Zhang Lifei*, Tian Zuolin, Bader Thomas, 2013, Petrology and U–Pb zircon dating of coesite-bearing metapelite from the Kebuerte Valley, western Tianshan, China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 70–71, 295–307.
20. Chen Zhen-Yu, Zhang Li-Fei*, Du Jin-Xue, Lü Zeng 2013, Zr-in-Rutile thermometry in eclogite and vein from Southwestern Tianshan, China Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 63, 70-80.
21. Zhang Cong, Zhang L.F.*, Bader Thomas, Song Shuguang 2013, Geochemistry and trace element behaviors of eclogite during its exhumation in the Xitieshan terrane, North Qaidam UHP belt, NW China Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 63, 81-97.
22. Zhang, G.B., Zhang, L.F*.,Christy, A.G 2013, From oceanic subduction to continental collision: An overview of HP–UHP metamorphic rocks in the North Qaidam UHP belt, NW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 63 98-111.
23. Tao Renbiao, Fei Yingwei, and Zhang Lifei, 2013, Experimental determination of siderite stability at high pressure, American Mineralogist, Volume 98, 1565-1572.
24. Yong Wenjun, Zhang L., C.M. Hall, S.B. Mukasa and E.J. Essene, 2013, The 40Ar/39Ar and Rb–Sr chronology of the Precambrian Aksu blueschists in western China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 63, 197-205.
25. Lü Zeng, Bucher Kurt, Zhang Lifei, 2013, Omphacite-bearing calcite marble and associated coesite-bearing pelitic schist from the meta-ophiolitic belt of Chinese western Tianshan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 76, 37-47.
26. Lü Z, Zhang L F*, 2012, Coesite in the eclogite and schist of the Atantayi Valley, southwestern Tianshan, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 57, 1467-1472.
27. Gou Longlong, Zhang Lifei*, Tao Renbiao and Du Jinxue 2012, A geochemical study of syn-subduction and post-collisional granitoids at Muzhaerte River in the Southwest Tianshan UHP belt, NW China, Lithos 136-139 ,201–224.
28. Lü Zeng, Zhang Lifei * and Du Jinxue 2012, Petrology of HP veins in the UHP eclogites of western Tianshan, China: fluid processes and element mobility during the exhumation in the cold subduction zone, Lithos 136-139, 168–186.
29. Zhang Cong, Roermund Herman van, Zhang Lifei* and Spiers Chris 2012, A polyphase metamorphic evolution for the Xitieshan paragneiss of the north Qaidam UHP metamorphic belt, western China: in-situ EMP monazite- and U-Pb zircon SHRIMP dating, Lithos, 136–139, 27–45.
30. Song, S.G., Su, L., Li, X.H., Niu, Y.L., Zhang, L.F.2012, Grenville-age orogenesis in the Qaidam-Qilian block: The link between South China and Tarim Precambrian Research, 220, 9-22.
31. Lü Z., Bucher K., Zhang LF*. and Du J,2012, The Habutengsu ultra-high pressure terrain of western Tianshan, China: metamorphic evolution of metapelites and metagreywackes, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30, 907–926.
32. Du Jinxue, Zhang Lifei*, LüZeng, and Chu Xu, 2011, Lawsonite–chloritoid-bearing glaucophane schist in Southwestern Tianshan, NW China: phase equilibia and P-T path Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 42, 684–693.
33. Zhang Cong, Zhang Lifei*, Zhang Guibin, Song Shuguang, Ren Wei, 2011, Petrology and SHRIMP U-Pb dating of the eclogite in the Xitieshan area of the North Qaidam HP-UHP metamorphic belt, Western China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 42, 752–767.
34. Song, S.G., Zhang, C., Li, X.H., Zhang, L.F. 2011, HP/UHP metamorphic time of eclogite in the Xitieshan terrane, North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China Acta Petrologica Sinica 27 1191-1197
35. Li, H. J. and Zhang, L. F*. and Andrew G. Christy, 2011, The correlation between Raman spectra and mineral composition of muscovite and phengite, Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism, In: Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism (Eds: Dobrzhinetskaya) Elsevier Inc DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385144- 4.00006-0l, 187-212.
36. Zhang Cong, Herman van Roermund and Zhang Lifei, 2011, Orogenic Garnet Peridotites:Tools to Reconstruct Paleo-Geodynamic Settings of Fossil Continental Collision Zones In: Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism (Eds: Dobrzhinetskaya), Elsevier Inc DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12- 385144- 4.00006-0l, 501-540.
37. Li X-P, Zhang L-F, Ai Y-L, Song B and Liu X-M, 2010, Rodingitization overprinted zircons and hydrothermal zircons from the rodingite of serpentinite complex, Western Tianshan: Mineral chemistry and the U-Pb ages, Lithos, 118, 17–34.
38. Song, S., Su, L., Li, X.-h., Zhang, G., Niu, Y., Zhang, L. , 2010, Tracing the 850-Ma continental flood basalts from a piece of subducted continental crust in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China, Precambrian Research 183 , 805-816.
39. Zhang, G.B., Ellis, D.J., Christy, A.G., Zhang, L.F., Song, S.G. 2010, Zr-in-rutile thermoetry in eclogites from Western China Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 160, 427-439
40. Yang Yuping, Zhang Lifei *,2010,Changes in the Hydrogen-Bonded Structure of Lawsonite: An Experimental Study to 2.5 GPa and 400 ℃, Journal of Earth Science, Vol. 21, No. 5, 811–816.
41. Lin Yihui, Zhang Lifei*, Ji Jianqing, Wang Qianjie, Song Shugang, 2010, 40Ar/39Ar isochron ages of lawsonite blueschists from Nine Spring in the Northern Qilian Mountains, NW China, and their tectonic implications, Chinese Science Bulletin.19: 2021-2027.
42. Zhang Guibin, Ellis David J., Christy Andrew, Zhang Lifei* , Niu Yaoling, Song Shuguang, 2009, UHP metamorphic evolution of coesite-bearing eclogite from the Yuka terrane, North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China, European Journal of Mineralogy,1287-1300.
43. Zhu YF, Xuan G, Song B, Zhang LF, Gu LB. 2009. Petrology, Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic geochemistry and zircon chronology of the Late Palaeozoic volcanic rocks in the southwestern Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, NW China. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166: 1085–1099.
44. Liu Xi, Shieh Sean R., Fleet Michael E., Zhang Lifei , 2009, Compressibility of a natural kyanite to 17.5 GPa. Progress in Natural Science, 19, 1281–1286
45. Geng Hongyan, Sun Min, Yuan Chao, Xiao Wenjiao, Xian Weisheng, Zhao Guochun, Zhang Lifei, Wong Kenny, Wu Fuyuan, 2009, Geochemical, Sr–Nd and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic studies of Late Carboniferous magmatism in the West Junggar, Xinjiang: Implications for ridge subduction? Chemical Geology 266, 364–389
46. Wei Chunjing, Wang Wei, Clarkeb Geoffrey, Zhang Lifei, et al. 2009, Metamorphism of High/ultra High-pressure Pelitic - felsic Schist in the South Tianshan Orogen, NW China: Phase equilibria and P–T path. Journal of Petrology, 1973-1991.
47. Song Shuguang, Niu Yaoling, Zhang Lifei, Kurt Bucher, 2009, Metamorphic evolution of garnet peridotite from Alaskan-type ultramfic cumulates in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China , Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 773-788.
48. Zhai, Shuangmeng, Xi Liu, Shieh, Zhang Lifei and Ito Eiji, 2009, Equation of state of tricalcium phosphate, γ-Ca3(PO4)2, 1 to lower mantle pressures, American Mineralogist , 1388–1391.
49. Lü Zeng, Zhang Lifei*, Du Jinxue and Kurt Bucher, 2009, Petrology of coesite-bearing eclogite from Habutengsu Valley, western Tianshan, NW China and its tectonometamorphic implications, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 773-787 .
50. Zhang Lifei, Wang Qianjie and Song Shuguang, 2009, Lawsonite blueschist in Northern Qilian, NW China: PT pseudosections and petrologic implications, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 35 ,354–366.
51. Zhang Guibin, Zhang Lifei*, Song Shuguang, Niu Yaoling, 2009, UHP metamorphic evolution and SHRIMP dating of meta-ophiolitic gabbro in the North Qaidam, NWChina, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences . 35, 310-322 .
52. Song, S., Su, L., Niu, Y., Zhang, G., Zhang, L., 2009,Two types of peridotite in North Qaidam UHPM belt and their tectonic implications for oceanic and continental subduction: a review, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 35,334-353.
53. Song, S., Niu, Y., Zhang, L., Wei, C., Liou, J.G., Su, L., 2009, Tectonic evolution of Early Paleozoic HP metamorphic rocks in the North Qilian Mountains, NW China: New Perspectives, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 35, 285-297.
54. Song Shuguang, Su Li, Niu Yaoling, Lai Yong, Zhang Lifei, 2009, CH4 inclusions in orogenic harzburgite: Evidence for reduced slab fluids and implication for redox melting in mantle wedge, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 1737–1754.
55. Bucher K., Zhang L., Stober I., 2009, A hot spring in granite of the Western Tianshan, China, Applied Geochemistry, 24, 402–410.
56. Zheng Y.F., Ye K. and Zhang L.F., 2009, Developing the plate tectonics from oceanic subduction to continental collision, Chinese Science Bulletin, 54, 2549-2555.
57. Wei C. J ., Yang Y., Su X., Song S. and Zhang L., 2009, Metamorphic evolution of low-T eclogite from the North Qilian orogen, NW China: evidence from petrology and calculated phase equilibria in the system NCKFMASHO, J. metamorphic Geol., 2009, 27, 55-70.
58. Lü Zeng Zhang Lifei* Du jinxue, 2008, Coesite inclusion in garnet from eclogitic rocks in Western Tianshan, northwest China: convincing proof of UHP metamorphism, Am. Min. 93, 1845-1850.
59. Zhang Guibin, Song Shuguang, Zhang Lifei*, Niu Yaoling, 2008, The subducted oceanic crust within continental-type UHP metamorphic belt in the North Qaidam, NW China: evidence from petrology, geochemistry and geochronology, Lithos, 104, 99-118.
60. Zhang LiFei, Lü Zeng, Zhang GuiBin & Song ShuGuang, 2008, The geological characteristics of oceanic-type UHP metamorphic belts and their tectonic implications: Case studies from Southwest Tianshan and North Qaidam in NW China, Chinese Science Bulletin , 53, 3120-3130.
61. Qu Junfeng, Zhang Lifei*, Ai Yongliang, Lv Zeng, Wang Jianping, Zhou Hui, Wang Shiyan, 2007, High-pressure granulite from Western Kunlun, Northwestern China: its metamorphic evolution, zircon SHRIMP U-Pb ages and tectonic implication, Science in China (Series D), 50, 961-971.
62. Song Shuguang, Su Li, Niu Yaoling, Zhang Lifei and Zhang Guibing, 2007, Petrological and geochemical constraints on the origin of garnet peridotite in the North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, northwestern China, Lithos , 96, 243–265.
63. Song Shuguang, Zhang Lifei, Niu Yaoling, Wei Chunjing, Liou J. G., Shu Guiming, 2007, Eclogite and carpholite-bearing meta-pelite in the North Qilian suture zone, NW China: implications for Paleozoic oceanic subduction, Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 25, 547–563.
64. Zhang, Lifei, Ai, Yongliang, Song Shuguang , Liou Juhn and Wei Chunjing, 2007, A brief review of UHP meta-ophiolitic rocks, SW Tianshan, western China, International Geological Review, 49,811-823.
65. Li, X-P, Zhang L-F*, Wei C-J and Ai Y-L, 2007, Petrology of rodingites derived from eclogites in the western Tianshan, China, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 363-382.
66. Zhang L-F, Ai, Y., Song S., Song, B., Rubatto, D., Williams, S., Liou, J. G., Ellis, D., 2007, Triassic collision of Western Tianshan orogenic belt, China: evidences from SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from eclogitic rocks, Lithos, 96, 266-280.
67. Ai Yongliang,Zhang Lifei*,Li Xuping and Qu Junfeng, 2006, Geochemical characteristics of HP-UHP eclogites and blueschists, and tectonic implications in southwestern Tianshan, China, Progress in Nature Sciences, 16, 624-632.
68. Song S.G., Zhang L.F., Niu Y., Su L., Song B. and Liu D. Y., 2006. Evolution from oceanic subduction to continental collision: A case study of the Northern Tibetan Plateau based on geochemical and geochronological data. Journal of Petrology, 47, 435-455.
69. Zhang L.F., Song S.G., Ai, Y.L., and Liou J. G. 2005, Relict coesite exsolution in omphacite from western Tianshan eclogites, China. American Mineralogist, 89:180-186.
70. Song, S., Zhang, L, Su,L., Y. Niu & B. Song, 2005, Geochronology of diamond-bearing zircons in garnet peridotite in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, North Tibetan Plateau: A record of complex histories associated with continental collision, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 234, 99-118.
71. Song, S.G., Zhang, L.F., Chen, J., Liou, J.G., Niu, Y., 2005,Sodic amphibole exsolutions in garnet from garnet-peridotite, North Qaidam UHPM belt, NW China: implications for ultradeep-origin and hydroxyl defects in mantle garnets, American Mineralogist, 90, 814-820.
72. Chen, L., Zhang, L. *, Wang H., Zhou, L., Chen, J., Yuan, B., 2005, Tow deferent illites in Luochuan loess, Northern Shanxi Province, Chinese Science Bulletin, 50,82-87.
73. Xu B., Jian P., Zheng H., Zhou H., Zhang L. and Liu D., 2005, U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks in the Tarim Block of northwest China: implications for the breakup of Rodinia supercontinent and Neoproterozoic glaciations, Precambrian Research, 136, 107-123.
74. Song S.G., Zhang L.F*. and Niu Y.L., 2004. Ultra-deep origin of garnet peridotite from the North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau, NW China. American Mineralogist, 89:1330-1336.
75. Song S.G., Zhang L.F*. and Niu Y.L., 2004. Zircon U-Pb SHRIMP ages of eclogites from the North Qilian Mountains in NW China and their tectonic implication, Chinese Science Bulletin, 49, 848-852.
76. Li Qiang Zhang Lifei * 2004,The P-T path and geological significance of low-pressure granulite-facies metamorphism in Muzhaerte, Southwest Tianshan, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 20 (3), 583-594。
77. Zhou, XW; Wei, CJ; Geng, YS; Zhang, LF , 2004, Discovery and implications of the high-pressure pelitic granulite from the Jiaobei massif, Chinese Science Bulletin, 49 (18): 1942-1948.
78. Zhang, Lifei, David J. Ellis, Richard J. Arculus, Wenbo Jiang and Chunjing Wei, 2003, Ultradeep subduction of carbonates to the mantle: evidence from the carbonate reaction of magnesite + calcite (aragonite) = dolomite in metapelites from western Tianshan, China, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 523-529.
79. Zhang, Lifei, David J. Ellis, Samantha Williams and Wenbo Jiang, 2003,Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China——Reply, American Mineralogist, 1157-1160.
80. Li, X-P, Zhang L-F*, Ai Y-L (2003) Discovery and geological implication of rodingites derived from eclogites of ophiolites at Changawuzi, western Tianshan, China. Progress in Natural Science. 13(12): 901-907.
81. Wei C. J., Powell, R. & Zhang L. F., 2003. Calculated mineral equilibria for eclogites from the south Tianshan, NW China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology,21: 163-180.
82. Zhang, Lifei David J. Ellis, Samantha Williams and Wenbo Jiang, 2002, Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China, part II: evidence from magnesite in eclogite. American Mineralogist, 87: 861-866.
83. Zhang, Lifei, David J. Ellis and Wenbo Jiang,2002,Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism in western Tianshan, China, part I: evidences from the inclusion of coesite pseudomorphs in garnet and quartz exsolution lamellae in omphacite in eclogites, American Mineralogist, 87: 853-860.
84. Zhang L. F., Sun M. and Xu B., 2001, Phase relations in grandite-bearing metabasites of prehnite-pumpellyite facies from The Darbut-Sartuohai ophiolite, Western Junggar of Xinjiang, China, Mineralogy and Petrology, 71: 67-85 .
85. Zhang L., Gao J., Ekerbair S. and Wang Z., 2001, Low temperature eclogite facies metamorphism in Western Tianshan, Xinjiang, Science in China (Series D), 44: 85-96.
86. Wei Chunjing, Zhang Lifei and Wang Shiguang, 2001, Mesozoic high-K grani tic rocks from the east ern Dabie Mountains, Central China and their geological implications. Science in China (Series D) , 44 (6): 525-534 .
87. Jiang Wenbo and Zhang Lifei*, 2001, The PTt path calculation of blueschists on the compo- sitional zonings of sodic amphiboles: an example from Aksu Precambrian blueschists of Xinjiang, Acta Petrogica Sinica, 17, 469-475 。
88. Xu B., Grove M., Wang C., Zhang L. and Liu S., 2000, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology from the northwestern Dabie Shan: constraints on the evolution of Qinling-Dabie orogenic belt, east-central China, Tectonophysics, 322: 279-301.
89. Zhang L. F., Jiang,W. B., Wei C. J. and S. B. Dong, 1999, Discovery of deerite from the Aksu Precambrian blueschist blueschist terrane and its geological significance, Science in China (series D), 42: 233-239.
90. Gao, J., Klemd, R., Zhang, L., Wang, Z. and Xiao, X.,1999, PT path of high-pressure metamorphic rocks and its tectonic implication in western Tianshan, northwest China, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, 621-636.
91. Dong Shenbao and Zhang Lifei, 1999, A General Account on the Proterozoic Glaucophane-schist Belts of China, “北京大学院士文库”,北京大学出版社,163-222。
92. Zhang L.F., Sun M., Wang S. and Yu X., 1998, The composion of shales from Ordos basin China: effects of source weathering and burial metamorphism (diagenesis), Sedimentary Geology, 116: 129-141.
93. Zhang Lifei, Sun Min and Wu Jiahong, 1997, The Origin of the early Proterozoic Kuandian Complex: evidences from geochemistry, Acta Geologica Sinica, 71: 15-32.
94. Zhang Lifei, 1997, The 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages of Tangbale blueschists from west Junggar in Xinjiang, Chinese Science Bulletin, 22:1902-1904.
95. Sun Min, Zhang Lifei and Wu Jiahong, 1997, Geochemistry of the 2.4-2.3 Ga Kuandian Complex, Sino-Korean Craton: A Paleoproterozoic continental rift? Pro. 30th Int’l Geol. Congr., Part 15, VSP ,169-183.
96. Zhang Lifei, 1996, The framework of glaucophane schist belt in the northern Yangtze craton, In: The Precambrian Glaucophane Schists Belt in the Northern Yangtze Craton and some Eclogites, (ed. S. B. Dong, W. Cui, L. F. Zhang et al.), 1-14, Science Press.
97. Zhang Lifei, 1993, The burial metamorphism in Ordos basin. Acta Geologica Sinica, 6: 181-193.
98. Zhang Lifei, Wang Qiming and Ren Leifu, 1993, The transformation of clay minerals in Triassic mudstone of north Shaanxi province during burial metamorphism. Sciences in China (series B), 36: 729-738.
99. Zhang Lifei and Wang Qiming, 1992, The electron microscopy study on the mixed layer of illite/chlorite. Chinese Sciences Bulletin, 37: 2067-2070.