Shen Shuzhong of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology was selected CAS member according to the academicians list released several days ago.
He made systematic and innovative achievements in the Permian Stratigraphy, mass extinction of the Permian end, the change of environment, biology and other aspects of ancient animal brachiopods.
Over the past 20 years, Shen Shuzhong has carry out a large number of biological stratigraphy research in Southern China, Tibet, Iran, the United States and other places. He has organized several major international conferences and other major biological events. In 2006 he led the International Commission of the Leping working group to carry out extensive cooperation with international counterparts, to carry out multi class biostratigraphy and chemical formation, which made the precision of Permian Triassic stratigraphic framework is obviously improved.
Since 1994, he repeatedly entered Tibet for a large number of field work, and set up Zangnan as the representative of the northern margin of Gondwana two layers of Triassic continuous biological, geochemical and petrological stratigraphic sequence, which changed the traditional understanding of lack of zone two triassic.
In paleontology research, he studied 10 countries brachiopod and conodont animal group. He led the team to establish the global Carboniferous Triassic brachiopod animal database, created a global biogeographic diversity and evolution pattern, made it become the judgment of the time body of ancient geographical location and ancient seaway opening and closing time and the evolution of marine benthic ecosystems based on proposed large-scale habitat.
In the Permian mass extinction study, he and a member of the research team and international counterparts together study the development of high precision in the comprehensive quantitative stratigraphic framework, biodiversity analysis and various geochemical index, demonstrating the end Permian mass extinctions at sea and instantaneous, which changes the large-scale magmatism caused by surface environment is the result of the main cause of mass extinctions.
(Information source: Nanjing Branch of CAS)
