Research Area

1. Paleomagnetism and Tectonics. Paleomagnetic reconstruction of Plate movements and Supercontinent evolution.
2. Tectonic evolution of the Tethyan realm and Paleo-environmental variation.

Education and Career

2020/10-Present, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Associate Professor.

2017/08-2020/09, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Post-Doctoral Researcher.

2011/08-2017/07, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D

2007/09-2011/07, Department of Geosciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Bachelor

Lectures

1. Earth System Science
2. Paleomagnetism

Projects

2022-2025(PI), National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Detailed paleomagnetic reconstruction on the Permian movements of Indochina.

2021-2024 (Sub-project), National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Paleomagnetic studies on the kinematic evolution of micro-continents within the Paleo-Tethys tectonic domain.

2019-2021(PI), National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC),  Paleomagnetic study on the Triassic volcanic rocks in the south Lancangjiang belt in the Western Yunnan.

Publications

Yonggang Yan, Lei Duan, Shumin Liang, Junhui Wang, Baochun Huang, Wenjun Zheng, Peizhen Zhang, Paleomagnetic constraint on the Carboniferous paleoposition of Indochina and its implications for the Evolution of Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Tectonics, 2020, 39, 1-13.

Yonggang Yan, Qian Zhao, Yipeng Zhang, Baochun Huang, Wenjun Zheng, Peizhen Zhang, Direct paleomagnetic constraint on the closure of Paleo-Tethys and its implications for linking the Tibetan and Southeast Asian blocks. Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 46, 14368-14376.

Yonggang Yan, Liwei Chen, Baochun Huang, Zhiyu Yi, Jie Zhao, Magnetic fabric constraint on tectonic setting of Paleoproterozoic dyke swarms in the North China Craton, China. Precambrian Research, 2019, 329, 247-261.

Yonggang Yan, Qian Zhao, Donghai Zhang, Punya Charusiri, Baochun Huang, Peizhen Zhang, Palaeomagnetism of Late Triassic volcanic rocks from the western margin of Khorat Basin, Thailand and its implication for ambiguous inclination shallowing in Mesozoic sediments of Indochina. Geophysical Journal International, 2019, 219, 897-910.

Yonggang Yan, Baochun Huang, Donghai Zhang, Punya Charusiri, Apivut Veeravinantanakul, Paleomagnetic Study on the Permian Rocks of the Indochina Block and Its Implications for Paleogeographic Configuration and Northward Drifting of Cathaysialand in the Paleo-Tethys. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018, 123, 4523-4538.

Yonggang Yan, Baochun Huang, Jie Zhao, Donghai Zhang, Xiaohui Liu, Punya Charusiri, Apivut Veeravinantanakul, Large southward motion and clockwise rotation of Indochina throughout the Mesozoic: Paleomagnetic and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronological constraints. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017, 459, 264-278.

Baochun Huang, Yonggang Yan, John D.A. Piper, Donghai Zhang, Zhiyu Yi, Shan Yu, Tinghong Zhou, Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleogeography of the East Asian blocks during Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic times. Earth-Science Reviews, 2018, 186, 8-36.

Jie Zhao, Baochun Huang, Yonggang Yan, Donghai Zhang, Late Triassic paleomagnetic result from the Baoshan Terrane, West Yunnan of China: Implication for orientation of the East Paleotethys suture zone and timing of the Sibumasu-Indochina collision. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 111, 350-364.

Zhiyu Yi, Baochun Huang, Liekun Yang, Xiangde Tang, Yonggang Yan, Qingqing Qiao; Jie Zhao; Liwei Chen, A quasi-linear structure of the southern margin of Eurasia prior to the India-Asia collision: First paleomagnetic constraints from Upper Cretaceous volcanic rocks near the western syntaxis of Tibet. Tectonics, 2015, 34(7), 1431~1451.

Liwei Chen, Baochun Huang, Zhiyu Yi, Jie Zhao, Yonggang Yan, Paleomagnetism of ca. 1.35 Ga sills in northern North China Craton and implications for paleogeographic reconstruction of the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent. Precambrian Research, 2013, 228, 36~47.