Research interests:  how subcontinental lithospheric mantle has been formed and modified throughout Earth history; the temporal and  causal  relationships between mantle events and crustal evolution; generation and evolution of granites.  

Publicatios：

1.Xisheng Xu*, Xueying Wang, Zhiwang Ma, Changhong Liang, Weiqiang Li, 2024. Petrogenesis of episodic volcanic-intrusive rocks in SE China: crystal-melt segregation and magma mixing. Chemical Geology, 670,122457.

2.徐夕生*，黄周传，姜鼎盛，曾罡，戴立群，2024. 古太平洋板块的遗迹和残片—地球化学和地球物理学示踪。中国科学: 地球科学, 54(10): 3091-3112, doi: 10.1360/SSTe-2024-0041。Xisheng Xu*, Zhouchuan Huang, Dingsheng Jiang, Gang Zeng, Li-Qun Dai，2024. Remnants and fragments of the Paleo-Pacific plate traced via geochemistry and geophysics. Science China Earth Sciences, 67(10): 3041‒3061.

3. Ding-Sheng Jiang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Saskia Erdmann, Geng-Xin Deng, Xiao-Jun Wang, M.N. Muhtar, Fang Huang, 2024. Ba-Mg isotopic evidence of a diabase for a big mantle wedge beneath East Asia in the Early Cretaceous. Chemical Geology,                              646：121917.

4. Wenjing Xu, Xiaotong Peng*, Robert Stern*, Xisheng Xu, and Hengchao Xu, 2023. Challenger Deep basalts reveal Indian-type Early Cretaceous oceanic crust subducting in the southernmost Mariana Trench. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51258.1.

5. Kai Zhao, Xisheng Xu*，Zhenyu He, Yan Xia, 2023. The obscuring effect of magma recharge on the connection of volcanic-plutonic rocks. American Mineralogist, 108: 2260-2282. DOI：10.2138/am-2022-8642.

6. Kai Zhao, Xisheng Xu*, Olivier Bachmann, Tongchao Nan, Yan Xia，2023. H2O-Controlled Eruptive Filtering on the Bimodality of Continental Volcanism across Tectonic Settings. Journal of Petrology.64:1-15. （Editor’s choice 论文）

7.Kai Zhao, Xi-Sheng Xu*，Reiner Klemd, Zhenyu He, Xisong Zhang, 2023.A review of the genetic mechanisms generating igneous charnockite: CO2 flushing and crystal-melt segregation in mushy reservoirs. Earth-Science Reviews, 237: 104295.

8.Xi-Song Zhang, Xi-Sheng Xu*，Kai Zhao, 2022. The strongly peraluminous, garnet‑bearing norite–quartz jotunite–charnockite suite: products of crystal accumulation in the felsic magma reservoir. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177:91, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01946-1

9.Changhong Liang, Xisheng Xu*，Zhenyu He, 2022. Connected volcanic and plutonic association by crystal-melt segregation in the Daiyunshan volcanic field, SE China. Tactonophysics, 836, 229409.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229409

10.Zhen-Tao Song, Xi-Sheng Xu*，2022. Petrogenesis of high-maficity S-type granites: Insight from the early Paleozoic Jinxi granite, South China. Lithos，412-413, 106597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106597

11.Ding-Sheng Jiang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Xiao-Jun Wang, Gang Zeng, An-Xia Chen, Bei Huang, Fang Huang, 2021. Geochemical evidence for the Paleo-Pacific plate subduction at ~125 Ma in Eastern China. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106259

12.Zhen-Tao Song, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Mei-Fu Zhou, Yan Xia, Ding-Sheng Jiang, 2021. A critical review of Early Paleozoic W and Cu mineralized and barren granitoids in Southeast China: magmatic differentiation, oxygen fugacity, and magmatic sources, Ore Geology Reviews (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104025.

13.Xi-Sheng Xu*, Xiao-Ming Chen, W. L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, Xi-Song Zhang, Li-Hui Chen, 2021. Immiscible-melt inclusions in corundum megacrysts: Microanalyses and geological implications. American Mineralogist, 106(4): 559-569 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7347

14.Xi-Song Zhang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Yan Xia, Kai Zhao, 2021. Crystallization and melt extraction for garnet-bearing charnockite from South China: Constraints from geochemistry, mineral thermometer and rhyolite-MELTS modeling. American Mineralogist, 106(3): 461-480.

15.Wenjing Xu*, Xisheng Xu, Yuejun Wang, Matthew Jacek Brzozowski, 2020. The effects of selective contamination on the early Paleozoic intracontinental mafic rocks in the South China Block: New insights from high-¹⁸O zircon. Lithos,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105854

16.Xisheng Xu*, Kai Zhao, Zhenyu He, Lei Liu, Wentao Hong, 2021. Cretaceous volcanic-plutonic magmatism in SE China and a genetic model. Lithos, 402-403,105728. 

17.Ding-sheng Jiang, Xi-sheng Xu*, Xiao-ling Li and Yan Xia, 2020. Emplacement of young island arc crust over older mantle along a cratonic foreland: Constraints from multiple isotopes and elemental geochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018550. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018550.

18.Wenjing Xu, Xisheng Xu*, Yuejun Wang, Matthew Jacek Brzozowski, 2020.The effects of mafic–felsic magma interaction on magma diversity: insights from an early Paleozoic hornblendite–quartz monzonite suite in the South China Block. Mineralogy and Petrology, 114(1), 71-90.

19.Ding-Sheng Jiang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Yan Xia, Saskia Erdmann, 2018. Magma Mixing in a Granite and Related Rock Association: Insight From Its Mineralogical, Petrochemical, and “Reversed Isotope” Features. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014886

20.Yan Xia, Xisheng Xu*, Yaoling Niu, Lei Liu, 2018. Neoproterozoic amalgamation between Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks: The magmatism in various tectonic settings and continent-arc-continent collision. Precambrian Research, 309:56-87.

21.Kai Zhao, Xisheng Xu*, Saskia Erdmann, Lei Liu, Yan Xia, 2017. Rapid migration of a magma source from mid- to deep-crustal levels: Insights from restitic granulite enclaves and anatectic granite. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2017.07.18, 129(11-12):1708-1725.

22.Wenjing Xu, Xisheng Xu*, Gang Zeng, 2017. Crustal contamination versus an enriched mantle source for intracontinental mafic rocks: Insights from early Paleozoic mafic rocks of the South China Block. Lithos, 2017.06.27, 286-287, 388-395.

23.Kai Zhao, Xisheng Xu*,Saskaya Erdmann, 2017. Crystallization conditions of peraluminous charnockites: Constraints from mineral thermometry and thermodynamic modelling. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 172:26, DOI 10.1007/s00410-017-1344-2

24.Wenjing Xu, Xisheng Xu， 2017. An early Paleozoic monzonorite–granite suite in the South China block: implications for the intracontinental felsic magmatism. Mineralogy and Petrology, 111: 709-728. DOI: 10.1007/s00710-016-0488-5.

25.Xi-Song Zhang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Yan Xia, Lei Liu，2016. Early Paleozoic intracontinental orogeny and post-orogenic extension in the South China Block: insights from volcanic rocks. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.07.016.

26.Yan Xia, Xisheng Xu*, Lei Liu, 2016. Transition from adakitic to bimodal magmatism induced by the paleo-Pacific plate subduction and slab rollback beneath SE China: evidence from petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the dike swarms. Lithos, 244:182-204.

27.Lei Liu, Xisheng Xu*, Yan Xia, 2016. Asynchronizing paleo-Pacific slab rollback beneath SE China: Insights from the episodic Late Mesozoic volcanism. Gondwana Research, 37: 397-407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.09.009

28.Wenjing Xu, Xisheng Xu∗, 2015. Early Paleozoic intracontinental felsic magmatism in the South China Block: Petrogenesis and geodynamics. Lithos, 234–235: 79–92.

29.Yan Xia, Xisheng Xu∗, Guochun Zhao, Lei Liu, 2015. Neoproterozoic active continental margin of the Cathaysia block: Evidence from geochronology, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes of igneous complexes. Precambrian Research. 269:195-216. DOI 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.08.006

30.Fajun Sun, Xisheng Xu*, Haibo Zou, Yan Xia, 2015. Petrogenesis and magmatic evolution of ~ 130 Ma A-type granites in Southeast China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 98: 209-224.

31.Kong-Yang Zhu, Zheng-Xiang Li, Xi-Sheng Xu, Simon A. Wilde. 2014. A Mesozoic Andean-type orogenic cycle in southeastern China as recorded by granitoid evolution. American Journal of Science. 314(1): 187-234. DOI 10.2475/01.2014.06

32.Lei Liu, Xisheng Xu*, Yan Xia, 2014. Cretaceous Pacific plate movement beneath SE China: Evidence from episodic volcanism and related intrusions. Tectonophysics, 614:170-184.

33.Yan Xia, Xisheng Xu*, Haibo Zou, Lei Liu, 2014. Early Paleozoic crust-mantle interaction and lithosphere delamination in South China Block: Evidence from geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of granites. Lithos, 184-187: 416-435.

34.Wentao Hong, Xisheng Xu*, Haibo Zou, 2013. Petrogenesis of coexisting high-silica aluminous and peralkaline rhyolites from Yunshan (Yongtai), southeastern China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 74: 316–329.

35.Lei Liu, Xisheng Xu*, Haibo Zou, 2012. Episodic eruptions of the Late Mesozoic volcanic sequences in southeastern Zhejiang, SE China: Petrogenesis and implications for the geodynamics of paleo-Pacific subduction. Lithos, 154: 166-180.

36.Xi-Sheng Xu*, Ming Zhang, Kong-Yang Zhu, Xiao-Ming Chen, Zhen-Yu He， 2012. Reverse age zonation of zircon formed by metamictisation and hydrothermal fluid leaching. Lithos, 150: 256–267.

37.Yan Xia, Xisheng Xu*, Kongyang Zhu, 2012. Paleoproterozoic S- and A-type granites in southwestern Zhejiang: Magmatism, metamorphism and implications for the crustal evolution of the Cathaysia basement. Precambrian Research, 216– 219, 177– 207.

38.Ming Tang, Xiao-Lei Wang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Cheng Zhu, Tao Cheng, Yao Yu, 2012. Neoproterozoic subducted materials in the generation of Mesozoic Luzong volcanic rocks: evidence from apatite geochemistry and Hf-Nd isotopic decoupling. Gondwana Research, 21 , 266–280.

39.Zhen-Yu He, Xi-Sheng Xu*, 2012. Petrogenesis of the Late Yanshanian mantle-derived intrusions in SE China: Response to geodynamics of paleo-Pacific plate subduction. Chemical Geology. 328: 208-221. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.09.014

40.Yao Yu, Xi-Sheng Xu, William L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly, Qun-Ke Xia, 2011. H2O contents and their modification in the Cenozoic subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Cathaysia block, SE China. Lithos, 126: 182-197.

41.Zhenyu He, Xisheng Xu*, Yaoling Niu, 2010. Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of a Mesozoic granite-syenite-gabbro association from inland South China. Lithos, 2010, 119:621-641.

42.Yao Yu, Xisheng Xu*, Xiaoming Chen, 2010. Genesis of zircon megacrysts in Cenozoic alkali basalts and the heterogeneity of subcontinental lithospheric mantle, eastern China. Mineralogy and Petrology, 100: 75-94.

43.He ZY, Xu Xisheng*, Zou HB, Wang XD, Yu Yao, 2010. Geochronology, petrogenesis and metallogeny of Piaotang granites in the tungsten deposit region of South China. Geochemical Journal, 44: 299-313.

44.Xisheng Xu*, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Lei Liu, Dezi Wang, 2010. Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Late Mesozoic granites in NE Yangtze Block, China: further insights from Jiuhuashan-Qingyang complex. Geological Magazine, 147(2)：219-232.

45.Zhenyu He, Xisheng Xu*, Yaoling Niu, 2010. Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of a Mesozoic granite-syenite-gabbro association from inland South China. Lithos, 119：621-641.

46.Yao Yu, Xisheng Xu*, Xiaoming Chen, 2010. Genesis of zircon megacrysts in Cenozoic alkali basalts and the heterogeneity of subcontinental lithospheric mantle, eastern China. Mineralogy and Petrology, 100: 75-94.

47.He ZY, Xu Xisheng*, Zou HB, Wang XD, Yu  Yao, 2010. Geochronology, petrogenesis and metallogeny of Piaotang granites in the tungsten deposit region of South China. Geochemical Journal, 44: 299-313.

48.Xisheng Xu*，WL Griffin, Xi Ma, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly, Zhenyu He, Chengli Zhang, 2009. The Taihua Group on the southern margin of the North China Craton: further insights from U–Pb ages and Hf isotope compositions of zircons. Mineralogy and Petrology, 97:43-59.

49.Zhenyu He, Xisheng Xu*, 2009. Origin of the Late Cretaceous Syenite from Yandangshan, SE China, constrained by Zircon U–Pb and Hf Isotopes and Geochemical Data. International Geology Review, 51(6), 556–582.

50.Xisheng Xu*, William L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly, Norman J. Pearson, Hongyan Geng, Jianping Zheng. 2008. Re-Os isotopes in mantle xenoliths from eastern China: age constraints and evolution of lithospheric mantle. Lithos, 102: 43-64.

51.Xisheng Xu*, Suzanne. Y. O’Reilly, W. L. Griffin, Xiaolei Wang， N. J. Pearson, Zhenyu He. 2007. The Crust of Cathaysia : Age, Assembly and Reworking of Two Terranes. Precambrian Research., 158: 51-78.

52.Xisheng Xu*, S. Y. O’Reilly, W. L. Griffin, Ping Deng, N. J. Pearson, 2005. Relict Proterozoic Basement in the Nanling Mountains (SE China) and its Tectonothermal Overprinting. Tectonics, 24, TC2003, doi:10.1029/ 2004TC001652.

53.Xu Xisheng*, O’Reilly S.Y., Griffin W.L., Zhou Xinmin.2003. Enrichment of upper mantle peridotite: petrological, trace-element and isotopic evidence in xenoliths from SE China. Chemical  Geology, 198 (3-4): 163-188.

54.Xu Xisheng, O’Reilly S.Y., Griffin W.L., Zhou Xinmin.2000. Genesis of young lithospheric mantle in SE China. Journal of Petrology, 41 (1): 111-148.

55.Xu Xisheng*, Dong Chuanwan, Li Wuxian, Zhou Xinmin, 1999. Late Mesozoic intrusive complexes in coastal area of Fujian, SE China: The significance of the gabbro-diorite-granite association, Lithos, 46: 299-315.

56.Xu Xisheng*, O’Reilly S.Y., Griffin W.L.,.1999. The Geotherm of the lithosphere beneath Qilin, SE China: A Reappraisal and implications for P-T estimation of Fe-rich pyroxenites. Reply. Lithos, 47(3-4): 195-199.

57.Xu Xisheng*, O’Reilly S.Y., Griffin W.L., Zhou Xinmin, Huang Xiaolong, 1998. The nature of the Cenozoic lithosphere at Nushan, eastern China, In: Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia, Geodynamics 27, American Geological Union, 167-195.

58.Xu Xisheng*, O'Reilly, S. Y., Zhou, Xinmin, Griffin, W. L., 1996. A xenolith-derived geotherm and the crust-mantle boundary at Qilin, southeastern China. Lithos, 38:41-62.

First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress Granted by National Ministry of Education, China (1995)

First Prize for Natural Science Research Granted by National Ministry of Education, China (2004)

First Prize for Natural Science Research Granted by National Ministry of Education, China (2007)

First Prize for Science and Technology Research Granted by Jiangsu Province, China (2016)

Second Prize for National Natural Science Award (2017)