Vice President of CUG: Yin Hongfu　　

Professor Yin Hongfu:
　　Date of Birth: March 15, 1935
　　Hometown: Dinghai County, Province, P. R.China
　　Educational Background:
　　　　1952-1956,undergraduate,Dept.Geology, Beijing College of Geology,BA; 1956-61,postgraduate, Graduate School of Beijing College of Geology, MA.
　　Work Experience:
　　　　Assistant professor (1961-78),lecturer(78-80),associate professor(80-86),professor(86-) and President (96-) of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan); State level Specialist nominated by State Council (1990-); Member of The Academy of China (1993-);Vice-chairman of the Paleontological Society of China(1992-1997); Senior visiting scholar of Smithsonian Institute and Amer. Mus. Nat.　History(80-82) and British Mus.Nat.History(90-91).Titular member of the Subcommittee of Triassic Strategraphy, Intern.　Com.　Stratography,　Chairman of Permian-Triassic Boundary Working Group. leader of Intern.Geol.Correlation Program,Proj.259(1993-97).

　　Achievements and domains of research.
　　1.Triassic and Permo-Triassic boundary stratigraphy and paleontology:
　　a. Classification and systematic description of Permo-Triassic bivalves and gastrpods,da.300 species illustrated in ca.80 plates.
　　b. Triassic system of China and East Asia.Age revision of the widespread Jialingjiang and Leikepo(Badong) formations; establishment of Triassic sequence in Guizhou province and Qinling belt; discovery of Ladinian regression in East Asia and Triassic transgression in North China. Summary of the Triassic of china and East Asia. Permian-Triassic sequence stratigraphy of South China.
　　c. Permian-Triassic boundary. Proposal of the criterion of Permian-Triassic boundary--Hindeodus parvus vs. Otoceras, which gained worldwide recognition. Volcanism at the P/T boundary and volcanic origin of boundary clay. Mass extinction at the P/T boundary and its causality. GSSP of the P/T boundary and recommendation of Meishan section as the GSSP candidate.

　　2. Devoted research toward integration of palaeontology and geology, which leads to the establishment of biogeology. His researches have ensued in the following results.
　　a. To the aspects of theoretical palaeontology and stratigraphy, he was the first to introduce into China punctuated equilibrium, and also pioneered in the introduction of niocatastrophism, cladistics and eventostratigraphy. In the book Saltationism in geological evolution (yin et al,1988),after re-evaluating the theories of Cuvier, Lyell and Darwin, and applying numerous examples based on his own researches and literatures from home and abroad, he concluded that organism evolution consists of gradual evolution, saltation and catastrophy as a peculiar to superior, from simple to complicate, but also, and more significantly, a phasic development altermated by mass extinctions and radial adaptions on one side and stable gradual evolutions on the other side. These viewpoints have been adapted in the new editions of Chinese textbooks of palaeontology and historical geology. His researches on the mass extinction, radial adaption and eventostratigraphy at Palaeonzioc boundary of china and over the world have been repeatedly cited by Chinese and foreign literatures.
　　b. A newly developed trend toward integrating palaeontology and geology. As a pioneer in china in this direction, he was the first to introduce palaeobiogeographic implications on movements of microplates and terranes. In the book 'the palaeobiogeography of china'(yin et al.,1988 in Chinese,1994 in English by Oxford University Press), he compiled relatively complete Chinese fossil taxa (more than ten thousand species), and large palaeontological database for computer analysis (more than *210.000 data). This resulted in the following theoretical developments: 1.Sysmatic differentiation of tropical, temperate and microthermal biota in geological periods; 2.Palaeobiogeographic provincialization of Phaenerozoic periods in China with 24 maps and dozens of tables, which provide biogeographic proofs for the plate tectonics of china; *3.first demonstration from biogeographic viewpoint that South China attributed to Gondwanaland in Early Palaeozoic and earlier, a viewpoint which has earned more and more support in China and over the world.
　　c. He was co-editor of the first Chinese textbook of palaeoecology (1964).During the last decades he organized the research of ecostratigraphy, resulting in numerous papers, research reports and the book Tongwuan-Indosinian ecostratigraphy of Yangtze platform and adjacent areas(Yin et al.,1995).This book put forward the theory and method of applying ecostratigraphy in basin analysis, which is systematized compared with analogous applications so far known and has been proved feasible in the practice of Permian-Triassic of Yangtze. It's merits in high resolution and hetero-facies correlation as well as integration with sequence stratigraphy surpass results by applying sedimentology or biostratigraphy only. More over, it provides important informations about eustatic and relative sea level changes.
　　d. His research group widened the research scope of biogenic function on metallogenesis from iron, manganese, phosphorus to gold, silver, lead, zinc and other ores, emphasized the function of organic fluid in metallogenesis, and set forth the organism-organic fluid-biometallogenisis system.teh theory and practice were shown in the book. The biometallogenesis system(Yin et al.,1999)and other publications.
3. Research on the stratigraphy and, as a whole, geology of orogenic belts, emphasizing on the characteristics of Chinese geology, which led to his idea of the archipelagic Tethys model vs. traditional Tethys model. This plus soft collision and multiphasic orogeny has led to what he call as non-Wilson cycle. He also developed systematic methodology to subdivid and identify sliced strata in orogenic belts, which he used the term 'non-Smith method'.
　　Publication:160 academic papers and 18 books, including:
　　1.J.M.Dickins,Yang Zunyi, Yin Hongfu, S.S.lucas, and S.K.Acharyya,1997,late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific Events and their Global Correlation. Cambrige university Press.245pp.
　　2.Yin Hongfu(ed.),1994,The palaeobiogeography of China. Oxford biogeography series no. 8.Oxford Science publications,Oxford.370pp.(English)
　　3.Yin Hongfu(ed.),1996,The Palaeozoic-Mosozed Boundary. China University of Geosciences Press.135pp(English)
　　4.Yin Hongfu, Xu Daoyi and Wu Ruitang,1988,Saltationism in geological history.201pp.China University of Geosciences Press.
　　5.Yin Hongfu, Yang Fengqing, Huang Qisheng, Yang Hengshu and Lai Xulong, The Triassic of Qinling Mountains and nieghboring areas. China University of Geosciences Press,211pp.
　　6.Yin Hongfu, Ding Meihua, Zhang Kexing, Tong Jinnan, Lai Xulong and Yang Fengqing,1996,Late Permian-Middle Triassic ecostratigraphy and sea level change of the Yangtze Platform Science Press,345pp.
　　7.Yin Hongfu, Zhang Wenhuai, Zhang Zhijian, Qi Shucheng, Xie Shucheng, Zhou Xiugao,1999,The biometallogenesis system. China University of Geosciences Press,208pp.(in Chinese)
　　8.G.Lucas and YIN Hongfu(eds.),1998,The Permian-Triassic boundary and global Triassiccorrelations. Palaeo-geography, -climatology, -ecology. Special issue,143(4),215pp.