Personal Information
Name: Liguang MAO
Title: Associate Professor
Email：mlg@cumtb.edu.cn
Research Interests
(1) Formation of the NE Tibetan Plateau and associated basin evolution
(2) Geology of rift basins in East China and their oil & gas bearing
(3) Basin structural analysis and its coupling with ranges
Education/Work Background
Sep. 2005 – Jun. 2009, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Bachelor of Science, Earth Sciences
Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2014, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Ph.D., Structural Geology
Jul. 2014-Sep. 2016, Zhejiang University, Post doctor
Jun. 2015-Jun. 2016, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Visiting Scholar
Oct. 2016-Jun. 2021, China University of Mining and Technology, Assistant Professor
Jul. 2021-present, China University of Mining and Technology, Associate Professor
Teaching Courses
Structural Geology
Basin Structural analysis
Senior Structural Geology
Field Trip Geological Mapping
Key Research Funding
[1] Oct. 2015-Nov. 2018, Did the Aimunike Mountain in the Northern Qaidam Basin uplift in the early Cenozoic? (NO. 41502189) National Natural Science Foundation of China
[2] Mar. 2021-Oct. 2023, Pre-Mesozoic key sequences and basin evolution of the Qaidam Basin, PetroChina
[3] Oct. 2023-Sep. 2025, Tectonic framework of Ordos block and basin evolution in the critical period, BGP, CNPC
Honors
2017.06, I won the second prize of Zhejiang Province Natural Science Award
Selected Publications (* denotes Corresponding author)
[1] Mao, L., et al., Structures and Kinematics of the Huanghua Depression in Bohai Bay Basin, East China: Implications for the Formation Mechanism of a Transtensional Basin. Lithosphere, 2021.
[2] Mao, L., et al., Initiation and origin of dextral deformation at Mid-Eocene in the western Bohai Bay Basin, East China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019. 185: p. 104031.
[3] Mao, L., et al., Structural deformation pattern within the NW Qaidam Basin in the Cenozoic era and its tectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 2016. 687: p. 78-93.
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