Shoufa Lin

Shoufa Lin
Professor, Structural Geology , Associate Chair, Graduate
Location: ESC 205
Phone: 519-888-4567 x36557

Biography

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.

Research Interests

  • Structural geology, plate tectonics

  • Mineral and resource exploration

  • Geohazards: Risks and Prevention

  • Climate Change and Geosciences

Scholarly Research

Education

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

Awards

  • 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

Service

  • Associate Chair, Graduate

  • GEOLOGY Editorial Board Member

  • Mentorship Medal Committee Chair, Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences

  • Associate Dean, International Programs, Faculty of Science

Teaching*

  • EARTH 238 - Introductory Structural Geology
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
  • EARTH 390 - Methods in Geological Mapping
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
  • EARTH 620 - Metamorphic Tectonites
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
  • SCI 396 - Science Study Abroad Program
    • Taught in 2020

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

Selected/Recent Publications

  • 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.