3.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

4.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

5.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

6.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

7.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.

8.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

9.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.

10.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

11.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. 

12.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.

13.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. 

14.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

15.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.

16.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.

17.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.

18.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

19.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.

20.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.

21.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.

22.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

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

24.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

25.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.

26.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

27.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.

28.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.

29.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.

30.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.

31.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.

32.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.

33.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.

34.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

35.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.

36.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.

37.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.

38.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.

39.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.

40.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.

41.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.

42.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.

43.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.

44.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.

45.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.

46.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.

47.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.

48.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.

49.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.

50.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.

51.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.

52.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.

53.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.