摘要
Professor An Yin,a world-class geologist,was well known for his significant contribution to the understanding of tectonic evolution of the Earth,especially the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau(Yin A and Harrison,2000;Yin A,2006),and other planets and their satellites,such as Enceladus and Europa(Yin A et al.,2016;Leonard et al.,2018).He applied mechanical analysis to structural geology in order to understand the deformation process,not only on terrestrial planets(Yin A,2012),but also on icy Charon,the largest moon of Pluto(Chen HZ and Yin A,2022).He passed away unexpectedly in the afternoon of July 12,2023 while teaching a summer field camp at White Mountain,California,USA.
