1987年毕业于浙江大学地质系，1994年获巴黎第七大学博士学位，1994-1995年伦敦大学Royal Holloway学院地质系博士后。历任中国科学院广州地球化学研究所副研究员、研究员、室副主任、主任、副所长、所长。现任中国科学院广州地球化学研究所研究员、同位素地球化学国家重点实验室主任. 先后当选中国科学院院士（2017）、美国地质学会（GSA）会士（2018）、美国地球物理联合会(AGU)会士（2021）、国际地球化学学会/欧洲地球化学协会(GS/EAG)会士（2022）。

　　现任国际火山和地球内部化学协会(IAVCEI)大火成岩省委员会委员，国际大地测量与地球物理联合会（IUGG）中国委员会副主席，中国地球科学联合学术年会（CGU）秘书长，中国矿物岩石地球化学学会监事长，广东省科协副主席, AGU VGP Fellows Committee 成员；国家自然科学基金委地学部专家咨询委员会委员，国家航天局第一届嫦娥五号月样专家委员会委员和探月工程四期领域科学家，大湾区科学论坛战略咨询委员会委员。Frontier in Earth Science副主编,  National Science Review、Global and Planetary Change、中国科学编委等。曾任国际地球化学学会奖励提名委员会委员，IAVCEI中国委员会主席，中国矿物岩石地球化学学会副理事长、火山与地球内部化学专业委员会主任，Terra Nova，Episodes, Mineralogy and Petrology, International Geology Review副主编, 科学通报编委等。

　　主要从事地幔岩石学、地球化学和深部动力学研究。先后主持了国家973项目、基金委创新群体和国家杰出青年基金项目、中科院B类先导专项、广东省基础与应用基础研究重大项目等，在华北克拉通破坏、峨眉山大火成岩省和地幔柱以及东亚大地幔楔等方面取得创新认识。担任国家基金委重大研究计划“地球宜居性的深部驱动机制”专家组组长、重大研究计划“西太平洋多圈层作用”专家组副组长。已发表论文350余篇，其中SCI论文280余篇，主编Lithos和Episodes专集四部；Google Scholar引用27100余次，H-index 87，入选World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020和中国Top200榜单，连续8年入选Elsevier高被引中国学者名录。以第一完成人获国家自然科学奖二等奖（2011, 2020）、广东省科学技术一等奖（2006, 2014）、李四光地质科学奖等。

　　2020，国家自然科学奖二等奖（排名第一）

　　2020，广东省科学技术一等奖（排名第五）

　　2014，广东省科学技术一等奖（排名第一）

　　2011，国家自然科学奖二等奖（排名第一）

　　2010，国土资源部科技一等奖（排名第十二）

　　2006，广东省科学技术一等奖（排名第一）

　　2018，全国五一劳动奖章

　　2013，“李四光”奖

　　2012，南粤百杰

　　2010，全国优秀科技工作者

　　2006，“孙贤鉥“奖

　　2004，新世纪首批百千万人才工程国家级人选

　　2000，广东省“五四青年”奖章

　　1998，中国科学院“杰出青年”，中国青年科技奖，“侯德封奖”

       1997，金锤奖

近四年论著：

2023年

Cai SX, GJ Wei, L Lo, JF Hu, ZC Sun, T Zeng, Y Yao, Z-H Zhou, Y-G Xu. 2023. Volcanism-driven lacustrine redox fluctuations were responsible for formation of the Jehol Lagerst？tte: Evidence from a high-resolution Aptian sedimentary core, northeast China. Paleography, Paleoclimat Paleoenvironment 111833

Hua YY, DP Zhao, Y-G Xu, 2023. P and S wave anisotropic tomography of the Banda subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters 50, e2023GL105611. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105611

Korsakov A.V., Mikhailenko D.S., Zhang L., Xu Y-G. 2023. Inclusions of diamond crystals in the tourmaline of the schorl-uvite series: problems of genesis. Journal of Mining Institute. p. 1-9. DOI: 10.31897/PMI.2023.18

Li CP, Zheng D, Yu J, Wang YZ, Pang J, Wang Y, Y Ma, YQ Hao, Y-G Xu. 2023. Late Oligocene orogen-scale tilting in northern Tibet: A response to northward injection of the Tibetan lower crust? Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102700. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102700

Li CP, DW Zheng, JX Yu, RJ Zhou, YZ Wang, JZ Pang, Y Wang, YQ Hao, Y-G Xu. 2023. Late Oligocene mountain building of the East Kunlun Shan in northeastern Tibet: Impact on the Cenozoic climate evolution in East Asia. Global and Planetary Change, 224, 10411

Li H-Y, C Xie, J Ryan, C-M Yang, R-P Zhao, C Zhang, Y-G Xu. 2023. Slab dehydration and magmatism in the Kurile arc as a function of depth: An investigation based on analysis of multiple isotopes. Chemical Geology 621, 121373

Li H-Y, C Xie, J G Ryan, C J Spencer, L Liu, Y-G Xu. 2023. Pb-Sr isotopes of the Kurile arc provide evidence for Indian-type oceanic crust in the Pacific basin. Lithos 448–449, 107174

Liang XR, Zhao DP, Hua YY, Xu Y-G. 2023. Mapping mantle flows and intraslab anisotropy in the Cascadia subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters50, e2023GL105527. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105527

Liang XR, Zhao DP, Hua YY, Xu Y-G. 2023. Big mantle wedge and intraplate volcanism in Alaska: Insight from anisotropic tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.128, e2023JB027617. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023JB027617

Liu L, LJ Liu, J Morgan, Y-G Xu, L Chen. 2023. New Constraints on Cenozoic Subduction Between India and Tibet. Nature Communications 14: 1963 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37615-5

Lu G-M, W Wang, RE. Ernst, HE Bilali, CJ. Spencer, A Bekker, Y-G Xu. 2023. Contrasting topography of Rodinia and Gondwana recorded by continental-arc basalts. Lithos 442–443, 107094

Lu G-M, W Wang, RE. Ernst, HE Bilali, CJ. Spencer, Y-G Xu, A Bekker, 2023.Evolutionary stasis during the Mesoproterozoic Columbia-Rodinia supercontinent transition. Precambriam Research 391(3) 10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107057

Ma Q, YT Zhong, QZ Yin, M Huyskens, L Ma, X-P Xia, Q-R Meng, ZH Zhou, Y-G Xu. 2023. High resolution chronostratigraphy of late Mesozoic sequences in northern North China: Implications for the linkage between intracontinental orogeny, volcanism, Jehol Biota and Pacific subduction. Geology doi.org/10.1130/G51535.1

Mei QF, J-H Yang, C-F Li, X-C Wang, J Konnunaho, Y-D Wu, H Zhong, Y-G Xu, H Wang. 2023. Modern OIB-like ¹⁸²W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities. Geology

Wang W-Q, F Zhang, S Zhang, Y Cui, N Planavsky, Q-F Zheng, Y-C Zhang, D-X Yuan, H Zhang, Y-G Xu, S-Z Shen, 2023. Ecosystem responses of two Permian biocrises controlled by CO₂ emission rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 602, 117940

Wang CY, S F. Foley, Y Liu, Y Wang, Y-G Xu, 2022. Formation of carbonatites by anatectic melting of downthrust carbonate sediments in orogenic belts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 10-11

Xian HY, JX Zhu, Y Yang, S Li, X Lin, J Xi, J Xing, X Wu, H Yang, Q Zhou, He HP, Y-G Xu, 2023. Ubiquitous and Progressively Increasing Ferric Iron Content on the Lunar Surfaces Revealed by Chang’E-5 Samples. Nature Astronaumy 1-7

Xin J, H Zhang , F Orellana-Rovirosa , Z-H Li , L Liu, Y-G Xu, Z Zhang, YL Shi, 2023. Dynamics of oceanic slab tearing during transform-fault horizontally oblique subduction: Insights from 3D numerical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027041.

Xu Y-G. 2023. Higher pressure differentiation of arc magmas under thicker crust. National Science Review nwac278

Yang CM, X Xia, YY Gao, X Wang, W Zhang, ZX Cui, YN Yang, Q Yang, Y-G Xu. 2023. Effects of thermal annealing on water content and d¹⁸O in zircon. American Mineralogist 108, 543–551

Yang F, X-L Huang, Y-G Xu, P-L He, 2023. Bifurcation of mantle plume by stagnant slabs in the mantle transition zone: Evidence from the Late Cenozoic basalts in the southeast Asia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi.org/10.1130/B36558.1

Yin R, XL Huang, R-C Wang, G-J Wei, Y-G Xu, Y Wang, X-M Sun, L Zhang, X-P Xia 2023. Magmatic–hydrothermal evolution of the Koktokay No. 3 pegmatite, Altai, northwestern China: Constraints from in situ boron isotope and chemical compositions of tourmaline. Lithos, doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107398

Yu Y, X-L Huang, Y-M Lai, J Li, Y-G Xu, S-L Chung, I Setiawan, F Yang, 2023. Different B-Mo isotopic fractionation processes controlled by redox conditions in the subduction zone. Chemical Geology, ？636, 121646

Zhang W-F, X-P Xia*, S Yuto, E Takahashi, Z-x Cui, Y Zhang, Q Yang, YN Yang, L Li, Y-G Xu, 2023. Potential clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene reference materials for SIMS water content analysis. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 38, 609-618.

Zhang WF, JJ Li, DW Zheng, SH Sun, YF Guo, J Zhang, M Xiao, J-j Wang, Y-l Zhang, YD Jiang, Y-G Xu, 2023. Sample neutron irradiation with the Min Jiang Testing Reactor (MJTR): Implications for high-precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 38(7),

2022年

Chen X-Y, S P.E. Blockley, R A. Staff, Y-G Xu, M A. Menzies. 2022. Improved age estimates for Holocene Ko-g and Ma-f~j tephras in northern Japan using Bayesian statistical modelling. Quaternary Geochronology, 67, 101229

Chen X.-Y., S.P.E. Blockley, R. Fletcher, S. Zhang, J.-H. Kim, M.-H. Park, C. Chen, J. Yin, Y.-G. Xu, 2022. Holocene tephrostratigraphy in the East Sea/Japan Sea: Implications for eruptive history of Ulleungdo volcano and potential for hemispheric synchronisation of hemispheric-wide palaeoclimatic sedimentary archives. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023243.

Guo J-F, Q Ma, Y-G Xu, J-P Zheng, Z-Y Zou, L Ma, X-J Bai, 2022. Migration of Middle-Late Jurassic volcanism across the northern North China Craton in response to subduction of Paleo-Pacific Plate. Tectonophysics, 833, 229338

Guo J-g, T Ying, H Gao, X Chen, Y Song, T Lin, Q Zhang, Q Zheng, CL Li, Y-G Xu, XL Chen. 2022. Surface microstructures of lunar soil returned by Chang’e-5 mission reveal an intermediate stage in space weathering process. Science Bulletin, 67, 1696-1701

Hua YY, Zhao DP, Xu Y-G. 2022. Seismic azimuthal anisotropy tomography of the Southeast Asia subduction system. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 127, e2021JB022854.

Li HY, X Li, J G. Ryan, Y-G Xu, 2022. Boron isotopes in boninites document rapid changes in slab inputs during subduction initiation. Nature Communications, 13: 993.

Liang XR, DP Zhao, Y-G Xu, YY Hua, 2022a. Anisotropic tomography and dynamics of the big mantle wedge. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2021GL097550.

Liang XR, Zhao DP, Hua YY, Xu Y-G. 2022b. Mantle tomography of central-eastern USA: Influence of the inversion volume size. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 127, e2022JB024782.

Liang XR, Zhao DP, Hua YY, Xu Y-G. 2022c. Seismic anisotropy tomography and mantle dynamics of central-eastern USA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127, e2022JB025484

Liu Z, DA. Ionov, P Nimis, Y-G Xu, P-L He, A V. Golovin, 2022. Thermal and compositional anomalies in a detailed xenolith-based lithospheric mantle profile of the Siberian craton and the origin of seismic mid-lithosphere discontinuities. Geology 50 (8): 891-896.

Liu H-Q, Li J., Y-G Xu, G P. Yumul Jr., C B. Dimalanta, B D. Payot, X-L Huang, Y Yan, K Quea？o. 2022. Heavy Mo isotope composition of northern Bataan adakites: evidence for fore-arc subduction erosion? Geology DOI: 10.1130/G50465.1

Lu H., Lei J., Zhao D., Xu Y.-G., Sun C., & Hu X., 2022. Pn anisotropic tomography of Hainan Island and surrounding areas: New insights into the Hainan mantle plume. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023609.

Ma L, Y-G Xu, J Li, L-H Chen, J-Q Liu, H-Y Li, X-L Huang, Q Ma, L-B Hong, Y Wang. 2022. Molybdenum isotopic constraints on the origin of EM1-type continental intraplate basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 317: 255–268

Meng Q-R, Z-H Zhou, R-X Zhu, Y-G Xu, Z-T Guo, 2022. Cretaceous basin evolution in northeast Asia: Tectonic responses to the paleo-Pacific plate subduction. National-Science Reviews 8 (6), nwab088

Mikhailenko D.S., Aulbach S., Korsakov A.V., Golovin A.V., Y-G Xu, F.V. Kaminsky. 2022. Titanite in coesite-bearing eclogite from kimberlite. Doklady Earth Sciences. 503: 206-212.

Ribeiro J, O Ishizuka, P P von Strandmann, Y Tamura, Y-G Xu. 2022. Temporal evolution of island arc magmatism and its influence on long-term climate: New insights from the Izu intra-oceanic arc. Frontier in Earth Sciences 810597.

Sun MD, Y-G Xu, Esteban G, J Li, W-F Zhang, L Zhang, P-L He, Y-Y Xiao, F Jourdan, SA. Wilde, 2022. Exploring small-scale recycled mantle components with intraplate continental twin volcanoes. Chemical Geology 598, 120842

Wei X, X-F Shi, Y-G Xu, P R Castillo, Y Zhang, L Zhang, H Zhang, 2022. Mid-Cretaceous Wake seamounts in NW Pacific originate from secondary mantle plumes with Rurutu hotspot composition. Chemical Geology, 587, 120632

Wei X, X-F Shi, Y-G Xu, P R Castillo, Y Zhang, QS Yan, 2022. Co-occurrence of HIMU and EM1 Components in a Single Magellan Seamount: Implications for the Formation of West Pacific Seamount Province. Journal of Petrology 63 (4), egac022

Wei X, X-F Shi, Y-G Xu, P R Castillo, Y Zhang, QS Yan, 2022. Concurrent magma mixing and crystallization processes revealed by clinopyroxene macrocrysts from Lamont guyot lavas in NW Pacific. Lithos 428, 106833

Weng B-Y, Hong LB, Y-H Zhang, L Zhang, Y-G Xu, C Yuan, P-L He. 2022. Petrological evidence of an anhydrous carbonatitic peridotite source for the Xiaogulihe ultrapotassic volcanic rocks, northeastern China. Lithos 426–427, 106776

Yang YN, MH He, Y-Q Zhang, Y-G Xu. 2022. Pb-Pb and U-Pb dating by NanoSIMS with the radio-frequency ion source using primary species. Atomic Spectroscopy. 43(3), 223-229

Yang C-M, Y-G Xu*, X-P Xia, X-H Li, Y-Y Gao, W-F Zhang, Y-N Yang, Q Yang, 2022. Raman spectra-based screening of zircons for reliable water measurement and oxygen isotope measurements. American Mineralogist. 107: 936–945.

Yang CM, Y-G Xu*, X Xia, J Yang, J Sun, W Zhang, Q Yang, Y Yang, 2022. Water-fluxed crustal melting during cratonic destruction. Geophysical Research Letters 49 (7), e2021GL097126

Ying R, X-L Huang, R-C Wang, X-M Sun, Y Tang, Y Wang, Y-G Xu, 2022. Rare-metal enrichment and Nb–Ta fractionation during magmatic–hydrothermal processes in rare-metal granites: Evidence from zoned micas from the Yashan pluton, South China. Journal of Petrology 63 (10): egac093.

Zhang W-f, X-p Xia*, B-x Su, Y-G Xu, Y-q Zhang, Q Yang, L Zhang, Z-x Cui. 2022. Distinct geochemical behavior of water in olivine between silicate and carbonatite metasomatism. Minerals 12 (9): 1090.

Zhang WF, Zheng D, He PL, Xu Y-G; Zhang Y, Zhang Y-l, Wang J-j, 2022. Sanidine in obsidian and its applicability in neutron flux monitor development for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 37 (11), 2286-？2293

Zhong Y-T, Z-Y Luo, R Mundil, X Wei, H-Q Liu, B He, X-L Huang, W Tian, Y-G Xu. 2022. Constraining the duration of the Tarim flood basalts (northwestern China): CA-TIMS zircon U-Pb dating of tuffs. GSA Bulletin, 132 (9-10) , 1969-1986

2021年

Dan W, Q Wang, JB Murphy, X-Z Zhang, Y-G Xu, WM White, ZQ Jiang, Q Ou, L-L Hao, Y Qi. 2021. Short duration of Early Permian Qiangtang-Panjal large igneous province: implications for origin of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 568, 117054

D’Souza J, N. Prabhakar, H Sheth, Y-G Xu, 2021. Metamorphic P–T–t–d evolution of the Pur-Banera belt, Aravalli Craton: Insights from phase equilibria modelling and zircon-monazite geochronology of metapelites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 00: 1–32.

Hong LB, Zhang Y, L Zhang, Y-G Xu, Z Liu, P He, 2021. Olivine chemistry of the Quaternary Datong basalts of the Trans-North China Orogen: Insights into mantle source lithology and redox–hydration state. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 510

Li W, Y Chen, XF Liang, Y-G Xu. 2021. Lateral variation in seismic anisotropy in west Yunnan recording interaction of mantle flows with a plume-strengthened lithospheric keel. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1029/2020JB020841

Li W, Y Chen, XF Liang, Y-G Xu. 2021. Crustal SiO2 content of the Emeishan Large Igneous Province and its implications for magma volume and plumbing system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22, e2021GC009783

Li JB, Ding, WW, J Lin; Y-G Xu, Kong FS., SZ Li; XL Huang; ZY Zhou. 2021. Dynamic Processes of the Curved Subduction System in Southeast Asia: a Review and Future Perspective. Earth-Science Reviews, 103647.

Liu L, LJ Liu*, Y-G Xu*, 2021. Mesozoic intraplate tectonism of East Asia due to flat subduction of a composite terrane slab. Earth Science Reviews 214, 103505

Liu L, LJ Liu*, Y-G Xu*, 2021. Intermittent Post-Paleocene continental collision in South Asia. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094531

Ma Q, Y-G Xu, 2021. Magmatic perspective on subduction of Paleo-Pacific plate and initiation of big mantle wedge in East Asia. Earth-Science Reviews 213, 103473

Meng Q-R, Z-H Zhou, R-X Zhu, Y-G Xu, Z-T Guo, 2021. Cretaceous basin evolution in northeast Asia: Tectonic responses to the paleo-Pacific plate subduction. National-Science Reviews 8 (6), nwab088

Shen J, JB Chen, T Algeo, QL Feng, JX Yu, Y-G Xu, GZ Xu, Y Lei, N Planavsky, SC Xie, 2021. Mercury fluxes record regional volcanism in South China prior to the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology 49, 452–456 

Wang Y, S Foley, S Buhre, Xu Y-G, 2021. Origin of potassic post-collisional volcanic rocks in young, shallow, blueschist-rich lithosphere. Science Advance 7(29): eabc0291.

Wang F, K-C Xing, W-L Xu, Y-G Xu, F-Z Teng, DB Yang. 2021. Permian ridge subduction in the easternmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt: magmatic record using Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-Mg isotopes. Lithos 384-385, 105966

Xu YG, R-C Wang, C Y Wang, R Linnen, F-Y Wu, 2021. Highly fractionated granites and rare-metal mineralization. Lithos, 106262.

Yang F, Huang XL. Xu Y-G, He PL., 2021. Cryptic zoning in primitive olivine as an archive of mush fluidization at mid-ocean ridges. Lithos 390–391, 106121

Yu S-Y, Y-G Xu, K-J Huang; L-M Chen; J-B Lan, S-H Zhou. 2021. Magnesium isotope constraints on contributions of recycled oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle to generation of intraplate basalts in a big mantle wedge. Lithos, 398-399: 106327

Zhang L, ZY Ren, L Zhang, YD Wu, SP Qian, XP Xia, Y-G Xu, 2021. Nature of the Mantle Plume under the Emeishan Large Igneous Province: Constraints from Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusions of the Lijiang Picrites. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126 (5), e2020JB021022

Zhang WF, Zheng DW, Liu GQ, Xu Y-G, Jiang YD, 2021. Optimization of irradiation parameters for 40Ar/39Ar dating by Argus VI multi-collector mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, in press

Zhong YT, M H. Huyskens, QZ Yin*, YQ Wang, Q Ma, Y-G Xu*, 2021. High precision geochronological constraints on the duration of ‘Dinosaurs Pompeii’ and the Yixian Formation. National Science Reviews 8 (6), nwab063

2020年

Chen J, Xu Y-G*, 2020. Permian large igneous provinces and their paleo-environmental impacts. In: Ernst, R.E., Dickson, A.J., Bekker, A. (eds). Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Changes. AGU Geophysical Monograph 255, 417-434

Chen J, S-z Shen, Y-c Zhang, M N Gorgij, W Wang, H Zhang, D-x Yuan, X-h Li, Y-G Xu. 2020. Abrupt warming in the latest Permian detected using high-resolution in situ oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite from Abadeh, central Iran. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 560: 109973.

Chen XY, S Blockley, Y-G Xu, M Menzies. 2020. Holocene tephrostratigraphic framework and monsoon evolution of East Asia: Key tephra beds for synchronising palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Review, 242, 106467

Dymshits A, I Sharygin, Z Liu, N Korolev, V Malkovets, T Alifirova, I Yakovlev, Y-G Xu, 2020. Oxidation State of the Lithospheric Mantle beneath Komsomolskaya-Magnitnaya Kimberlite Pipe, Upper Muna Field, Siberian Craton. Minerals 10(9), 1-22

D’Souza J, H Sheth, Y-G Xu, W Wegner, N. Prabhakar, K Kant Sharma, C Koeberl. 2020. Neoarchaean crustal reworking in the Aravalli Craton: Petrogenesis and tectonometamorphic history of the Malola granite, Bhilwara area, northwestern India. Geological Journal. 55, 8186-8210. 

Fan JJ, Tang GJ, Wei GJ, Wang H, Y-G Xu, Q Wang, Zhou J-S, Zhang Z-Y, Huang T-Y, Wang Z-L. 2020. Lithium isotope fractionation during fluid exsolution: Implications for Li mineralization of the Bailongshan pegmatites in the West Kunlun, NW Tibet. Lithos 352-353: 105236

Hong L.B., Xu Y.G., Zhang L., Liu Z., Xia X.P., Kuang Y.S., 2020. Oxidized Late Mesozoic subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern North China Craton: A clue to understanding cratonic destruction. Gondwana Research 81: 230-239.

Hong L.B., Xu Y.G., Zhang L., Wang Y, Ma L, 2020. Recycled carbonate-induced oxidization of the convective mantle beneath Jiaodong, Eastern China. Lithos 366–367: 105544

Ionov DA; Z Liu; J Li, A V Golovin; AV Korsakov; Y-G Xu. 2020. The age and origin of cratonic lithospheric mantle: Archean dunites vs. Paleoproterozoic harzburgites from the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberian craton. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 281, 67-90.

Liu H-Q, GP. Yumul Jr., CB. Dimalanta, K Quea？o, X-P Xia, T-P Peng, J-B Lan, Y-G Xu*, Y Yan, J M R. Guotana, V S Olfindo, 2020. Magmatic Response to a Transition from Proto-South China Sea to South China Sea Fossil Ridge Subduction. Tectonics 39(2), e2019TC005639

Liu Z; L Tong, O Bartoli, B Carvalho, Y-G Xu, O Gianola, C Li, 2020. Anatexis and metamorphic history of Permian pelitic granulites from the southern Chinese Altay: constraints from petrology, melt inclusions and phase equilibria modeling. Lithos 360–361: 105432

Liu Z, O Bartoli, L Tong, Y-G Xu, X Huang, 2020. Permian ultrahigh–temperature reworking in the southern Chinese Altai: Evidence from petrology, P–T estimates, zircon and monazite U–Th–Pb geochronology. Gondwana Research 78, 20-40 

Liu Z; L Tong, O Bartoli, Y-G Xu, X Huang, C Li, 2020. Lowe pressure metamorphism of mafic granulites in the Chinese Altay orogen, NW China: PeT path, UePb ages and tectonic implications. Solid Earth Sciences 5: 8-28

Liu Z., Tong L., Bartoli O., Xu Y.-G., Zhong Z., 2020. P–T path, zircon U–Pb ages and tectonic implications of Devonian pelitic granulites in the southern Chinese Altay orogeny. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 203, 104554

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