周明忠，男，教授，博士生导师；1997年于成都理工学院获地质学学士学位，2008年于中国科学院地球化学研究所获矿物学岩石学矿床学博士学位；主要对华南埃迪卡拉系-寒武系过渡地层中火山沉积记录开展发现、地球化学及锆石U-Pb年代学工作；已主持国家自然科学基金项目3项；曾担任Journal of Asian Earth Sciences等期刊审稿人；于Science Bulletin, Precambrian Research, Science China Earth Sciences, 中国科学:地球科学，科学通报等期刊发表论文。

主持项目：

国家自然科学基金项目：华南深水区埃迪卡拉系-寒武系界线层位Hg异常的区域对比及成因研究（批准号：42262005），执行年限2023-2026。

国家自然科学基金项目：华南埃迪卡拉系钾质斑脱岩锆石U-Pb测年及Hf-O同位素源区示踪（批准号：41462001），执行年限2015-2018。

国家自然科学基金项目：贵州陡山沱组钾质斑脱岩的地球化学研究（批准号：40963002），执行年限2010-2012。

代表性学术论文（*通讯作者）：

[1]Shanjin Yang, Mingzhong Zhou*, Jack Longman*, Li Zhou, Enlin Yang, Guiyun Wang, Di Zhang, Zongling Zhang, Hongwei Zhang. Origin, stratigraphic and evolutionary significance of K-bentonites in the upper Ediacaran of South China. Precambrian Research, 2023, 397: 107201.

[2]Hua Yang, Liansheng Yang, Mingzhong Zhou*. Expanded deepwater euxinia recorded in the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary interval in South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2022, 230: 105192.

[3]Mingzhong Zhou*, Bin Wan, Li Zhou, Enlin Yang, Liansheng Yang, Taiyi Luo*. Origin of K-bentonites in the Doushantuo cap dolostones from South China and its potential link with the sedimentary model of the Marinoan cap dolostones. Precambrian Research, 2021, 366: 106416.

[4]Wei Wang, Mingzhong Zhou*, Zhuyin Chu*, Junjie Xu, Chaofeng Li, Taiyi Luo, Jinghui Guo. Constraints on the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in deep-water realm in South China: Evidence from zircon CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb ages from the topmost Liuchapo Formation. Science China Earth Sciences, 2020, 63(8): 1176-1187. /王伟，周明忠*，储著银*，许俊杰，李潮峰，罗泰义，郭敬辉. 华南深水区埃迪卡拉系-寒武系界线制约：来自留茶坡组顶部锆石CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb年龄证据. 中国科学: 地球科学, 2020, 50(6): 819-831.

[5]Mingzhong Zhou*, Taiyi Luo, Warren D. Huff, Zhiqing Yang, Guanghong Zhou, Tian Gan, Hua Yang, Di Zhang. Timing the termination of the Doushantuo negative carbon isotope excursion: evidence from U-Pb ages from the Dengying and Liuchapo formations, South China. Science Bulletin, 2018, 63(21): 1431-1438.

[6]Mingzhong Zhou*, Taiyi Luo, Warren D. Huff, Shirong Liu. Prominent Lower Cambrian K-bentonites in South China: Distribution, mineralogy, and geochemistry. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2014, 84(10): 842-853.

[7]Mingzhong Zhou, Taiyi Luo*, Shirong Liu, Zhikuan Qian, Lecai Xing. SHRIMP zircon age for a K-bentonite in the top of the Laobao Formation at the Pingyin section, Guizhou, South China. Science China Earth Sciences, 2013, 56(10): 1677-1687. /周明忠，罗泰义*，刘世荣，钱志宽，邢乐才. 贵州江口平引老堡组顶部的锆石SHRIMP年龄与对比意义. 中国科学: 地球科学, 2013, 43(7): 1195-1206.

[8]Mingzhong Zhou, Taiyi Luo*, Zhengxiang Li, Hui Zhao, Hansheng Long, Yong Yang. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age of tuff at the bottom of the Lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation, Zunyi, South China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2008, 53(4): 576-583. /周明忠，罗泰义*，李正祥，赵辉，龙汉生，杨勇. 遵义牛蹄塘组底部凝灰岩锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄及其地质意义. 科学通报, 2008, 53(1): 104-110.