Shoufa Lin

Shoufa Lin's research focuses on structural geology and its applications for mineral deposit study and exploration. A major part of his research concerns the structural and tectonic evolution of orogenic belts, Archean tectonics and kinematics and tectonic significance of shear zones.

• Structural geology, plate tectonics
• Mineral and resource exploration
• Geohazards: Risks and Prevention
• Climate Change and Geosciences

Professor Lin's research focuses on structural geology and its applications to the study of and exploration for mineral deposits. A major part of his research is concerned with the structural and tectonic evolution of orogenic belts, Archean tectonics and kinematics and tectonic significance of shear zones. His research into the economic aspects of structural geology deals with both structural controls on emplacement and structural modification of the geometry and location of mineral deposits. Professor Lin's research is mostly field based with sites in the Canadian Appalachians, the Canadian Cordillera, the Superior and Slave cratons and other parts of Canada, and various parts of Chin

• 1992, Doctorate Geology, University of New Brunswick, Canada

• 2014 Outstanding Performance Award
• 2004 W.W. Hutchison Medal of the Geological Association of Canada
• 2004 William Harvey Gross Medal of the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada
• 2001 Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award
• 1998 Best Paper Award of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada
• 1993 Governor-General's Gold Medal
• 1992 Best Thesis Award of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada

• Associate Chair, Graduate
• GEOLOGY Editorial Board Member
• Mentorship Medal Committee Chair, Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
• Associate Dean, International Programs, Faculty of Science

• EARTH 238 - Introductory Structural Geology
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• EARTH 390 - Methods in Geological Mapping
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• EARTH 620 - Metamorphic Tectonites
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• SCI 395 - Science Study Abroad Program
  • Taught in 2019
• SCI 396 - Science Study Abroad Program
  • Taught in 2019, 2020
• SCI 397 - Science Study Abroad Program
  • Taught in 2019

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Wu, M., Lin, S., Wan, Y., Gao, G., 2016. Crustal evolution of the Eastern Block in the North China Craton: constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotopes of the Northern Liaoning Complex. Precambrian Research, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.12.013.
• Cleven, N.R., Lin, S., Xiao, W.J., 2015. The Hongliuhe fold-and-thrust belt: Evidence of terminal collision and suture-reactivation after the Early Permian in the Beishan orogenic collage, Northwest China. Gondwana Research, v. 27, p. 796–810.
• Cleven, N., Lin, S., Guilmette, C., Xiao, W., Davis, B. 2015. Petrogenesis and implications for tectonic setting of Cambrian suprasubduction-zone ophiolitic rocks in the central Beishan orogenic collage, Northwest China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 113, p. 369–390, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.10.038.
• Li, L., Lin, S., Xing, G., Ren, S., Li, J. 2014. Petrogenesis and mantle source characteristics of Cenozoic alkaline diabase, Jiangxi Province, southeastern China. International Geology Review, V. 56, No. 16, 1919–1931. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2014.971447.
• Li, L., Lin, S., Davis, D.W., Xiao, W., Xing, G., Yin, C., 2014. Geochronology and geochemistry of igneous rocks from the Kongling terrane: Implications for Mesoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution of the Yangtze Block. Precambrian Research, v. 255, p. 30–47.
• Please see Shoufa Lin's Google Scholaror ResearchGate profiles for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.