Education:
Master in Geochemistry, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1987;
Ph.D. in Geotectonics&Geodynamics, Petrology&Volcanology, Institute of Geology SB RAS, Russian Academy of Science, 2006;
Doctor of Science in Petrology&Volcanology, Russian Academy of Science, 2021.
Experience
- Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, since 2022;
- Project professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2019
- Leading Researcher, Sobolev institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, since 1990;
- Head of Lab, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, since 2017;
- Associate Editor of Gondwana Research, Geoscience Frontiers and Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, since 2011;
- Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Invited Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, 2014 – 2015, 2017.
- Korea Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Brain Pool Program Researcher, 2010-2012.
Research Interests
1. Plate Tectonics: Pacific-type orogeny; accretionary complexes; ocean plate stratigraphy; ocean opening and closure; assembly and breakup of (super)continents; tectonic modeling; magmatic and tectonic factors of continental growth.
2. Mantle dynamics: mantle plumes and related magmatism; triggers of mantle plumes.
3. Geochemistry: major, trace and isotope composition of rocks and its relation to geodynamics;
4. Petrology: petrogenesis and mantle sources of basalts; petrological modelling.
5. Isotope geochronology and geochemistry: U-Pb zircon dating and Nd-Sr-Pb isotopes
Selected publications
Safonova I., Perfilova A., 2023. Survived and disappeared intra-oceanic arcs of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: evidence from Kazakhstan. National Science Review (Reviews in Earth Sciences). https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac215
Safonova I., Perfilova A., Savinskiy I., Kotler P., Sun M., Wang B, 2022. Sandstones of the Itmurundy accretionary complex, central Kazakhstan, as archives of arc magmatism and subduction erosion: Evidence from U-Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Hf-Nd isotopes. Gondwana Research 111, 35–52.
Safonova, I., Perfilova A., Obut O., Kotler P., Aoki S., Komiya T., Wang B., Sun M., 2021. Traces of intra‑oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U–Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes. International Journal of Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02059-z
Safonova I., Komiya T., L. Romer R., Simonov V., Seltmann R., Rudnev S., Yamamoto S., Sun M., 2018. Supra-subduction igneous formations of the Char ophiolite belt, East Kazakhstan. Gondwana Research 59, 159–179.
Safonova I., Maruyama S., Kruk N., Obut O., Kotler P., Gavryushkina O., Khromykh S., Kuibida M., Krivonogov S., 2018. Pacific-type orogenic belts: linking evolution of oceans, active margins and mantle magmatism. Episodes 41, 79-88.
Safonova, I., Kotlyarov, A., Krivonogov, S., Xiao, W., 2017. Intra-oceanic arcs of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Gondwana Research 50, 167-194.
Safonova I., 2017. Juvenile versus recycled crust in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications from ocean plate stratigraphy, blueschist belts and intra-oceanic arcs. Gondwana Research 47, 6-27.
Safonova, I., Maruyama, S., Litasov, K., 2015. Generation of hydrous-carbonate plumes in the mantle transition zone linked to tectonic erosion and subduction. Tectonophysics 662, p. 454-471.
Safonova I., Maruyama, S., 2014. Asia: a frontier for a future supercontinent Amasia. International Geology Review 59, 1051-1071.
Safonova I., 2014. The Russian-Kazakh Altai orogen: an overview and main debatable issues. Geoscience Frontiers 5, 537-552.
Safonova, I., Seltmann, R., Kroener, A., Gladkochub, D., Schulmann, K., Xiao, W., Kim, T., Komiya, T., Sun, M., 2011. A new concept of continental construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (compared to actualistic examples from the Western Pacific). Episodes, v. 34, no. 4, pp. 186-194.
Connect:
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Phone (156)8006 3656
email: inna03-64@mail.ru
Personal Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Inna_Safonova
