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Abstract This memoir highlights the scientific and academic contributions of Bor-ming Jahn who passed away in last December. He is best known for his ability to draw novel insights about… Click to show full abstract
Abstract This memoir highlights the scientific and academic contributions of Bor-ming Jahn who passed away in last December. He is best known for his ability to draw novel insights about the Earth’s tectonics, evolution, and geological processes from in-depth field and laboratory studies of isotopic and elemental geochemistry. He is recognized as a global leader in the applications of geochemical and isotope tracers (Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb-O) to regional tectonic evolution, and made outstanding contributions to the formation of dominant juvenile crust (>70%) for the Phanerozoic Central and Northeast Asian Orogenic Belts. He created the term “TTG” for tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite suites formed in ancient and present-day magmatic arc setting and is the first to date the oldest Chinese rocks and to constrain Triassic continental subduction for the Dabie-Sulu UHP terrane. He received numerous honors, and was the first Chinese Earth scientist to be the Editor-in-Chief of the celebrated Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , Elsevier. We are sad for his sudden passing; yet his scientific devotion and contributions will be remembered for decades to come.