 Professor Chen Guoda |
Brief Account of Professor Chen Guoda
Professor Chen Guoda, the experienced academician of China Scientific Academy, was born in 1912, and graduated from the Department of geology, Zhongshan University in 1934. He has successively been the director of geology department of Zhongshan University and of Central South University of Technology; the head of Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, Science Academy of China; the vice chairman of GSC, and Chairman of Geology Institute of Hu＊nan Province, and the vice chairman of CTOD of International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Now he is the chairman of International Research Center for Diwa Tectonics and Metallogeny, consultant editor of Global Tectonics and Metallogeny, and chief editor of Geotectonica et Metallogenia.
Professor Chen is not only a famous geologist, but also the pioneer and propagandist in the study of Danxia Geomorphology. As early as 1930＊s, he noticed a special landform developed on the Mesocenozoic continental red beds, which would be significant in scenic geology and valuable for tourism. In 1939, he put forward the scientific term of Danxia Landform, and used this term many times in his following articles.
Professor Chen Guoda, the experienced academician of China Scientific Academy, was born in 1912, and graduated from the Department of geology, Zhongshan University in 1934. He has successively been the director of geology department of Zhongshan University and of Central South University of Technology; the head of Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, Science Academy of China; the vice chairman of GSC, and Chairman of Geology Institute of Hu＊nan Province, and the vice chairman of CTOD of International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Now he is the chairman of International Research Center for Diwa Tectonics and Metallogeny, consultant editor of Global Tectonics and Metallogeny, and chief editor of Geotectonica et Metallogenia.
Professor Chen is not only a famous geologist, but also the pioneer and propagandist in the study of Danxia Geomorphology. As early as 1930＊s, he noticed a special landform developed on the Mesocenozoic continental red beds, which would be significant in scenic geology and valuable for tourism. In 1939, he put forward the scientific term of Danxia Landform, and used this term many times in his following articles.
