In recent years, the "Cenozoic Geology and Environment" team led by Zhang Rui, associate professor of the Department of Geology, has carried out more detailed cyclic stratigraphic and astrochronological studies on the late Miocene-Pliocene eolian red clay in the eastern part of the Loess Plateau of China. Focus on the "unconventional" 170000 year slope modulation period related to the long-term frequency disturbance of the orbital inclination between Earth and Saturn.
In 1987, after successfully winning the first National Natural Science Foundation Youth Science Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Youth Fund) project, Professor Liu Chiyang of Northwestern University, who was still a young teacher at that time, started his own research trip. He traveled all over the mountains, explored the micro, and carried out in-depth research in the basin structure and oil and gas exploration
Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of the People's Republic of China released the evaluation results of the special project "Evolution of the Qiangtang Basin and its energy effect". Professor Ren Zhanli of our department led the application of the project "The space-time difference between the tectonic thermal system of the Qiangtang Basin and the thermal evolution of the source rock"
Recently, Geophysical Research Letters, the flagship of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the journal Nature Index (NI), published the latest research result of our department's paleoceanography team, "Obliquity Induced Latitudinal Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone During the Past 〜 410 kyr".