Publications

2025

• Samuel, V.O., Jang, Y.*, 2025. 

Middle Triassic Post-collisional Granitoid in the Western Gyeonggi Massif, Korea: Crustal Melting during the Permo-Triassic Orogenic Collapsing. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 58, 121-132.

• Koutsovitis, P.*, Soukis, K., Kokkalas, S., Magganas, A., Ntaflos, T., Jang, Y., Kwon, S., Karkalis, C., Petrounias, P., Tsikos, H., Mason, P., 2025. 

Contemporaneous Triassic Calc‐Alkaline Volcanism and Fast‐Spreading Magmatism in the Western Tethys: Implications for the Eastern Mediterranean Palaeogeographic Evolution. 

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 26, e2024GC011733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011733 

• Park, S., Jang, Y.*, Kang, M., 2025. 

Structural Geometry of the Taean Area in the Western Gyeonggi Massif, Korea: Insight from the Distribution Pattern of the Paleoproterozoic Seosan Group. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 58, 1-15.

• Ngo, X.T.*, Hung, N.Q., Kim, Y., Kwon, S., Bui, V.H., Tran, T.H., Jang, Y., Samuel, V.O., 2025. 

Cambrian–Ordovician Arc-Related Magmatism in the Central Southeast Asian Continents and Its Significance on Early Palaeozoic Tectonics of the Indochina Block. 

Geological Journal 60, 776-791. DOI: 10.1002/gj.5102

2024

• (Keynote talk)  Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., Samuel, V.O., Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the proto-Korean Peninsula from polyphase orogenies recorded in the northeastern Okcheon Belt, Korea. 

2024 Annual Convention of the International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR) and the 21st International Conference on Gondwana to Asia. Curtin University, Malaysia. Kuching, Malaysia. November 18-22, 2024.

https://curtin.edu.my/event/international-association-for-gondwana-research-iagr-2024/keynote-speakers/ 

• Park, C., Song, Y.*, Kim N., Choi, S.-J., Chwae, U., Jang, Y., 2024. 

A new definition of the Haengmae Formation and its geological significance. 

Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 60, 181-190.

• Jang, Y., Kim, S.W., Samuel, V.O., Kwon, S.*, Park, S.-I., Santosh, M., Yi, K., 2024. 

Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the proto-Korean Peninsula along the East Asian continental margin from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry. 

Geoscience Frontiers 15, 101700.

2023

• Lee, H., Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., 2023. 

Preliminary Structural Geometry Interpretation of the Pyeongchang Area in the Northwestern Taebaeksan Zone, Okcheon Belt: A Klippe Model.

Economic and Environmental Geology 56, 831-846.

• Samuel, V.O., Kwon, S., Jang, Y.*, Kil, Y., Santosh, M., Park, C., Yi, K., 2023. 

Fertile upper mantle peridotite xenoliths indicate no wholesale destruction of cratonic root in East Asia. 

Communications Earth & Environment 4, 492. 

• Park, C., Song, Y., Kim, N., Choi, S.-J., Chwae, U., Jang, Y., Kwon, S., Kim, J., Kim, H., Jeong, Y.-J., 2023. 

In-situ δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr proxies in an unconformable clastic unit at the Ordovician–Silurian transition. 

Scientific Reports 13, 15174. 

• Renjith, M.L.*, Singh, S.P., Santosh, M., Satyanarayanan, M., Korakoppa, M.M., Jang, Y., Keshav Krishna, A., 2023. 

The Khajraha, oldest carbonatite from India: Implications on carbonated-eclogite source, multi-level emplacement and its petrogenetic link with orthomagmatic fluids. 

Lithos 446-447, 107100

• Ngo, T.X.*, Bui, H.V., Tran, D.M., Kim, Y., Li, X., Tran, H.T., Kwon, S., Jang, Y., Sang, B.V., Khang, L.Q., 2023. 

Ordovician continental arc magmatism in the Tam Ky-Phuoc Son Suture Zone, Central Indochina Block, Southeast Asia.

Geological Journal 58, 825-836. DOI: 10.1002/gj.4626

2022-2020

• Samuel, V.O., Santosh, M.,  Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S.*, 2022. 

Earth’s deep lithosphere: Insights from the Neoarchean magmatic roots of the Nilgiri Block, southern India. 

Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 992900.

• Wang, M.-X., Santosh, M.*, Yang, C.-X., Jang, Y., Yu, B., Gao, P., 2022. 

Trondhjemites from the Qianxi Complex, North China Craton: Implications for Neoarchean crustal growth. 

Geological Journal DOI: 10.1002/gj.4466.

• Yu, B., Santosh, M.*, Amaldev, T., Jang, Y., Yang, C.-X., 2022. 

Paleo-Mesoarchean crustal evolution in the Coorg Block, southern India: Insights from magmatic and metamorphic records in mafic granulites. 

Precambrian Research 370, 106537.

• Song, Y., Park, C.W., Kim, N., Choi, S.-J.*, Chwae, U., Kwon, S., Jang, Y., 2021. 

New Occurrence of Haengmae Formation in Taebaeksan Basin. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 54, 365-372.

• Lee, H., Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., 2021. 

Structural Geometry, Kinematics and Microstructures of the Imjingang Belt in the Munsan Area, Korea. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 54, 271-283.

• Samuel, V.O., Santosh, M., Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S.*, 2021. 

Acidic fluids in the Earth’s lower crust. 

Scientific Reports 11, 21146.

• Kwon, S., Samuel, V.O.*, Song, Y., Kim, S.W., Park, S.-I., Jang, Y., Santosh, M., 2020. 

Eclogite resembling metamorphic disequilibrium assemblage formed through fluid‑induced metasomatic reactions. 

Scientific Reports 10, 19869.

• Noh, J., Kim, C., Samuel, V.O.*, Jang, Y., Park, S.-I., Kwon, S., 2020. 

Fluid Infiltration and Mass Transfer along a Lamprophyre Dyke–Marble Contact: An Example from the South-Western Korean Peninsula. 

Minerals 10, 828.

• Samuel, V.O., Kwon, S.*, Jang, Y., Santosh, M., 2020. 

Petrogenesis of the late Paleoproterozoic Luyashan igneous charnockite-enderbite suite, North China Craton and its comparison with metamorphic counterparts. 

Lithos 376-377, 105724.

Before 2020 (before CNU)

• Kim, S.W., Kee, W.S.*, Santosh, M., Cho, D.-L., Hong, P.S., Ko, K., Lee, B.C., Byun, U.H., Jang, Y., 2020. 

Tracing the Precambrian tectonic history of East Asia from Neoproterozoic sedimentation and magmatism in the Korean Peninsula. 

Earth-Science Reviews 209, 103311.

• Kim, S., Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., Samuel, V.O., Kim, S.W., Park, S.-I., Santosh, M., Kokkalas, S., 2020. 

Petro-tectonic evolution of metamorphic sole of the Semail ophiolite, UAE. 

Gondwana Research 86, 203-221.

• Jang, Y.*, Cheong, H.J., 2019. 

Structural Geometry of the Pyeongchang-Jeongseon Area of the Northwestern Taebaeksan Zone, Okcheon Belt. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 52, 541-554.

• Jang, Y.*, 2019. 

Understanding of the Duplex Thrust System - Application to the Yeongwol Thrust System, Taebaeksan Zone, Okcheon Belt. 

Economic and Environmental Geology 52, 395-407.

• Lee, H., Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., Park, M.-H., Mitra, G., 2018. 

The role of mechanical stratigraphy in the lateral variations of thrust development along the central Alberta Foothills, Canada. 

Geoscience Frontiers 9, 1451-1464.

• Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., Song, Y., Kim, S.W., Kwon, Y.K., Yi, K., 2018. 

Phanerozoic polyphase orogenies recorded in the northeastern Okcheon Belt, Korea from SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon and K-Ar illite geochronologies. 

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 157, 198-217.

• Kim, C.S., Jang, Y., Samuel, V.O., Kwon, S., Park, J.-W., Yi, K., Choi, S.-G.*, 2018. 

Petrogenesis, detrital zircon SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology, and tectonic implications of the Upper Paleoproterozoic Seosan iron formation, western Gyeonggi Massif, Korea. 

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 157, 78-91.

• Kim, S.W., Park, S.-I., Jang, Y., Kwon, S.*, Kim, S.J., Santosh, M., 2017. 

Tracking Paleozoic evolution of the South Korean Peninsula from detrital zircon records: Implications for the tectonic history of East Asia. 

Gondwana Research 50, 195-215.

• Jang, Y.*, Kwon, S., Yi, K., 2015. 

Structural style of the Okcheon fold-thrust belt in the Taebaeksan zone, Korea. 

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 105, 140-154