Paleomagnetism

Environmental Magnetism

Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography

Education:

Ph.D. Lehigh University, PA, USA

M.Phil. The University of Hong Kong, China

B.Sc. Nanjing University, China

Work Experience:

2005-2006,Pennsylvanian State University,PA, USA; Post-doc

2007-2009, Tulane University,LA, USA;McWilliams Post-doc

2009-  , Nanjing University

Address:

School of Earth Sciences and Engineering

Nanjing University

163 Xianlin Ave.

Nanjing 210046, China

Email: yxli@nju.edu.cn

Phone: +86-25-8968 0866

Xu, S., Li, Y. X.*, van Hinsbergen, D. J., Liu, X., Li, B., Li, X.H., Wang, T., 2025. An asymmetric Late Cretaceous back-arc basin south of Tibet? Geology,  https://doi.org/10.1130/G52634.1.  

Jiao, W., Li, Y. X.*, Yang, Z., Yang, A., Chen, X., Hu, C. et al. 2025. Positioning the North China Block (NCB) in the Cambrian: Constraints from the integrated bio-, chemo- and magnetostratigraphy. Geophysical Research Letters, 52， e2024GL111661. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111661.

Liu, X.Y., Li, Y. X.*, Richter, C., 2024. Salient changes of Earth's magnetic field toward the end of Cretaceous Normal Superchron (CNS). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028104. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028104Highlighted in AGU Newsletter EOS: “The Not-So-Quiet Cretaceous Quiet Zone”.

Li, Y. X.*, Tarduno, J.A., Jiao, W.J., Liu, X.Y., Peng, S.C., Xu, S.H., Yang, A.H., Yang, Z.Y., 2023. Late Cambrian geomagnetic instability after the onset of inner core nucleation. Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40309-7

Li, Y. X.*, Liu, X.Y., Selby, D., Liu, Z.H., Montañez, I. P., Li, X.H., 2022. Enhanced ocean connectivity and volcanism instigated global onset of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) ∼94.5 million years ago. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 578, 117331 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117331

Li, Y. X.*, Gill, B., Montañez, I.P., Ma, L.F., LeRoy, M., Kodama, K.P., 2020. Orbitally driven redox fluctuations during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) revealed by a new magnetic proxy, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 538, 109465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109465

Li, Y. X.*, Zhao, X.X.*, Xie, S.Y., Jovane, L., Petronotis, K.E., 2018. Paleomagnetism of IODP Site U1380: Implications for the forearc deformation in the Costa Rican erosive convergent margin. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29243-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29243-7

Li, Y. X.*, Montañez, I. P., Liu, Z. H., and Ma, L. F., 2017, Astronomical constraints on global carbon-cycle perturbation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 462, 35-46. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.007

Li, Y. X.*, Jiao, W. J., Liu, Z. H., Wang, D. H., He, Y. X., and Quan, C* 2016, Terrestrial responses of low-latitude Asia to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition revealed by integrated chronostratigraphy. Climate of the Past, doi: 10.5194/cp-12-255-2016, 12, 255-272. www.clim-past.net/12/255/2016/

Li, Y. X.* and Kodama, K.P., 2016, Detecting and correcting for paleomagnetic inclination shallowing of sedimentary rocks: a review. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00007 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2016.00007/abstract

Li, Y. X.*, Zhao, X. X., Jovane, L., Petronotis, K. E., Gong, Z. and Xie, S.Y. 2015. Paleomagnetic constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Costa Rican subduction zone: new results from sedimentary successions of IODP drill sites from the Cocos Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. doi:10.1002/2015GC006058https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GC006058

Li, Y. X.*, S.P. Wang, S.Y. Fu, W.J. Jiao, 2014. Recognizing the threshold magnetic anisotropy for inclination shallowing: implications for correcting inclination errors of sedimentary rocks. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2014.00008 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2014.00008

Li, Y. X.*, L.S. Shu, B. Wen, Z. Y. Yang, J. R. Ali 2013. Magnetic inclination shallowing problem and the issue of Eurasia's rigidity: insights following a palaeomagnetic study of upper Cretaceous basalts and redbeds from SE China. Geophysical Journal International 194, 1374–1389, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt181 http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/194/3/1374.full

Li, Y. X.*, T. E. Tornqvist, J. M. Nevitt, B. Kohl, 2012. Synchronizing a sea-level jump, final Lake Agassiz drainage, and abrupt cooling 8,200 years ago. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 315-316, 41-50.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.034

Li, Y. X.* H. Renssen, A. P. Wiersma, and T. E. Tornqvist 2009. Investigating the impact of LakeAgassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model. Climate of the Past 5, 471-480. http://www.clim-past.net/5/471/2009/

Li, Y. X.*, T.J. Bralower, I.P. Montañez, D.A. Osleger, M.A. Arthur, D.M. Bice, T.D. Herbert, E. Erba, I. Premoli-Silva., 2008. Toward an orbital chronology for the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a, ~ 120 Ma). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 88-100. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.055http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.055

Li, Y. X.*, Z.C. Yu, and K.P. Kodama, 2007. Sensitive moisture response to Holocene millennial-scale climate variations in the Mid-Atlantic region, USA. The Holocene 17 (1) 3-8. doi: 10.1177/0959683606069386  http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=70fdf3d1-b5f3-4367-b302-ad8f7af06d08%40sessionmgr4010&vid=0&hid=4213

Li, Y. X.*, Z.C. Yu, K.P. Kodama, and R.E. Moeller, 2006. A 14,000-year environmental change history revealed by mineral-magnetic data from White Lake, northwestern New Jersey, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 246, 27-40. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.052http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.052

Li, Y. X.* and K.P. Kodama, 2005. Assessing thermal effects on magnetic fabrics of sedimentary rocks: results from synthetic and natural samples. Geophysical Research Letters 32 (4), L04314, doi: 10.1029/2004GL022049. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL022049/abstract

Li, Y. X.*, J.R. Ali, L.S. Chan, and C.M. Lee, 2005. New and revised set of Cretaceous paleomagnetic poles from Hong Kong: implications for the Cretaceous-Cenozoic development of southeast China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 24, 481-493, doi: 10.1016/j.jsease.2004.01.004.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2004.01.004

Li, Y. X.*, K.P. Kodama, and D.P. Smith, 2004. New paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and petrographic results from the Valle Group, BajaCalifornia, Mexico: Exploring the causes of anomalously shallow paleomagnetic inclinations. Journal of Geophysical Research109, B11101, doi: 10.1029/2004JB003127

Xu, S.H.†, Zhao, X.X., Li, Y.X.*, Liu, X.Y., Chen, W.W., 2021. Pulsed vertical displacement and subsequent shearing in the forearc of the Costa Rican convergent margin: evidence from paleomagnetic results of IODP Site U1413. Marine Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106606

Jiao, W. J. †, Li, Y. X.*, Yang, Z. Y., Liu, J.R., 2019. A widespread Early Mesozoic remagnetization in South China. Journal of Geophysical Research. doi:10.1029/2018JB016707 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016707

Qin, S. X. †, Li, Y. X.*, Li, X. H., Xu, B., Luo, H., 2019. Paleomagnetic results of Cretaceous cherts from Zhongba, southern Tibet: New constraints on the India-Asia collision. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 173, 42-53. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.01.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.01.012

Jiao, W.J. †, Li, Y. X.*, Yang, Z.Y., 2018. Paleomagnetism of a well-dated marine succession in South China: A possible Late Cambrian true polar wander (TPW). Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 277, 38-54. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2018.01.009 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2018.01.009

Li, C.H.*, Li, Y. X.*, Zheng, Y.F., Yu, S. Y., Tang, L.Y., Li, B.B., Cui, Q.Y. 2018.  A high-resolution pollen record from East China reveals large climate variability near the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary (around 4200 years ago) exerted societal influence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 512, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.031

Wen, B. †, Li, Y. X.*, Zhu, W.B. 2013. Paleomagnetism of the Neoproterozoic diamictites of the Qiaoenbrak Formation in theAksu area, NW China: Constraints on the paleogeographic position of the Tarim Block. Precambrian Research 226, 75-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.10.018

Wen, B. †, Evans, D., Li, Y. X.*, 2017, Neoproterozoic paleogeography of the Tarim Block: An extended or alternative “missing-link” model for Rodinia? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 458, 92-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.030

Wen, B. †, Evans, D., Li, Y. X.*, Wang, Z. R., Liu, C., 2015. Newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite and cap carbonate (DCC) couplet in Tarim Craton, NW China: stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleoenvironment. Precambrian Research, 271, 278–294, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.10.006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.10.006

Tornqvist, T. E., Jankowisk, K. L., Li, Y. X., Gonzalez, J.L., 2020. Tipping points of Mississippi Delta marshes due to accelerated sea level rise, Science Advances, 6 (21) eaaz5512. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz551215 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/21/eaaz5512

Wei, Z., Li, X. H., Li, Y. X., Fang, X. L., Wang, J.Y., Zhang, C.K, Jiebu, G., 2020. Discovery of vestiage sedimentary archives of the India-Asia collision in the eastern Yarlung Zangbo suture zone. Journal of Geophysical Research. doi:10.1029/2019JB018192 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018192

Gong, Z., Kodama, K. P., Li, Y. X., 2019.  Paleomagnetism and rock magnetic cyclostratigraphy of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China: Constraints on the remagnetization mechanism and the encoding process of Milankovitch cycles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 528, 232-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.002

Gong, Z., Kodama, K. P., Li, Y. X., 2017.  Rock magnetic cyclostratigraphy of the Doushantuo Formation, South China and its implications for the duration of the Shuram carbon isotope excursion. Precambrian Research289, 62-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.12.002

Li, X.H., Wei, Y.S., Li, Y. X., Zhang, C.K., 2016. Carbon isotope records of the early Albian oceanic anoxic event (OAE) 1b from eastern Tethys (southern Tibet, China). Cretaceous Research. 62, 109-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.015

王世朋,李永祥*,付少英,向荣,胡建芳. 南海北部陆坡GHE24L柱样沉积物磁性特征及其环境意义. 第四纪研究, 2014, 34(3): 516-527, doi:10.3969/j.issn.1001 7410.2014.03.06

李永祥*，鄢全树，赵西西，等．剥蚀型汇聚板块边缘大地震成因机理研究：来自国际综合大洋钻探344航次  的报告．地球科学进展, 2013, 28(6): 368-376.

马丽凤，李永祥* 藏南贡扎剖面赛诺曼阶/土伦阶与三冬阶/坎潘阶界线附近地层的岩石磁学对比研究. 高校地质学报, 21(3), 544-552 (2015).

张波兴，李永祥*，胡修棉，藏南床得剖面古地磁结果对印度-亚洲碰撞方式的约束， 科学通报 62(4),298- 311 (2017).

解思伊，李永祥*,藏南卧龙剖面下侏罗统海相地层的岩石磁学特征及其古环境意义，高校地质学报, 23(3),545-554 (2017).

刘欣宇，李永祥*,晚赛诺曼期东特提斯洋古海洋环境探析--以西藏定日地区为例，沉积学报,DOI： 10.14027/j.issn.1000-0550.2020.045 (2020).

李永祥*,刘欣宇，古地磁场研究：挑战与机遇，地质学报,  https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/11.1951.P.20201106.0847.002.html (2020).

胡修棉，李娟，韩中，李永祥，中生代两类极热事件的环境变化、生态效应与驱动机制，中国科学：地球科学, doi: 10.1360/SSTe-2019-0186 (2020).