招生方向

·深时地理环境：洞悉火山喷发对环境的潜在影响（需一定编程和模型理解及应用能力）

·锆石U–Pb年代学：对著名地质事件进行高精度锆石U–Pb年龄约束（需一定动手能力）

科研项目

·2023.1-2026.12. 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

·2015.1-2018.12. 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

·2010.1-2012.12. 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

代表著作论文（*通讯作者）

[1] Mingzhong Zhou*, Taiyi Luo, Warren D. Huff, et al. (2018). 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, 63(21), 1431–1438.

[2] Mingzhong Zhou, Taiyi Luo*, Shirong Liu, et al. (2013). 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, 56(10), 1677–1687. /周明忠，罗泰义*，刘世荣，等(2013). 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, 43(7): 1195–1206.

[3] Mingzhong Zhou*, Bin Wan, Li Zhou, et al. (2021). 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, 366, 106416.

[4] Di Zhang, Mingzhong Zhou*, Zhongfa Zhou, et al. (2026). Early Cambrian explosive super-eruptions in the north-western margin of Gondwana may have triggered the ‘Strangelove ocean’. Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 209.

[5] Zongling Zhang, Mingzhong Zhou*, Li Zhou, et al. (2025). Origin of K-bentonites near the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in South China. Chemical Geology, 693, 122984.