Applications of structural and metamorphic geological methods to the studies of HT/UHT and HP/UHP metamorphic P-T histories and related metamorphic processes, combined with Thermocalc phase diagram’s calculations, e.g, thermal evolution of the continental crust, petrogeneses of HT/UHT granulites and tectonic settings, UHP eclogites-gneisses and implications for continental deep subduction and exhumation processes.

 

Current interests: (1) Metamorphic history of Prydz Bay in East Antarctica, with implications for assembly of east Gondwana, (2) Study of the Qinling- Dabie UHP metamorphic terrane in China, with implications for continental subduction, exhumation, (3) Evolution of Dianxi Metamorphic belts in Yunnan.

PhD:   The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2004

MSc:   Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 1991

BSc:    Northwest University, Xi’an, 1988

1. Tong L., Jahn B.M., Iizuka Y. & Xu Z., 2007. Assemblages and textural evolution of UHP eclogites from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling main hole. International Geology Review, 49, 73-89.

2. Tong L. & Wilson C.J.L., 2006. Tectonothermal evolution of the ultrahigh temperature metapelites from the Rauer Group, east Antarctica. Precambrian Research, 149, 1-20.

3. Tong L., Wilson C.J.L. & Vassallo J.J., 2004. Metamorphic evolution and reworking of the Sleaford Complex metapelites in the southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51, 571-589.