PhD: USC 1988

Research focus: structural geology & tectonics, fault tectonics, continental dynamics

Selected publications:

2004
68. 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.

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.

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