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Xiyuan Bao
Postdoc, UCLA Geology
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Magmatism of Shatsky Rise controlled by plume-ridge interaction
CRETACEOUS‒PALEOGENE LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE EMPLACEMENT AND OCEAN HISTORY: IMPACTS ON CRUSTAL STRUCTURE, CLIMATE, AND CIRCULATION II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2023
Xubo Zhang, Eric Brown, Jinchang Zhang, Jian Lin, ...
Shatsky Rise is a large oceanic plateau formed at a spreading ridge triple junction, but its origin mechanism is unclear. Voluminous magmatism at Shat...
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Determining Mid-Ocean Ridge Geography from Upper Mantle Temperature
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ON THE INTERPLAY OF SURFACE PROCESSES, LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION, AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: APPLICATION TO OROGENIC PLATEAUS AND OTHER TECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2023
Xiyuan Bao, Tushar Mittal, Carolina R. Lithgow-Ber...
Mid-ocean ridges, being the most evident manifestation of mantle convection and plate tectonics, display a variety of large-scale geophysical and geoc...
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Illuminating Mantle Convection: Unraveling Plume Dynamics over LLSVPs in the Laboratory
EXPLORING COMPLEX MANTLE DYNAMICS WITH OBSERVATIONS, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AND COMPUTER MODELS I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2023
Xiyuan Bao, Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Hotspots have geochemical fingerprints distinct from mid-ocean ridges. Approximately half of catalogued hotspots are obviously hotter than the ambient...
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Deep Geophysical Anomalies Beneath the Changbaishan Volcano
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
14 april 2023
Shaohua Li, Jiaqi Li, Thomas P. Ferrand, tong zhou...

Subsurface imaging is key to understanding the origin of intraplate volcanoes. The Changbaishan volcano, located about 2,000 km away from the ...

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Coupled Evolution of Earth’s Hydrogen Distribution and Thermal History
PROPERTIES OF VOLATILES AND METAL ALLOYS IN ROCKY PLANETARY INTERIORS AND THEIR SURFACE EXPRESSION II ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 14 december 2022
Xiyuan Bao, Zebin Cao, Kenneth C. Gourley, Sara Gu...
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, plays a critical role in the evolution of Earth and its habitability. Water can exert a strong co...
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The plume zoo of thermal LLSVPs
HOTSPOTS AND PLUMES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXAMINATION OF THE CRITICAL LINK BETWEEN DEEP AND SHALLOW EARTH PROCESSES III ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2022
Xiyuan Bao, Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Mantle plumes have been suggested to originate or have a relationship with the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs) in the deep mantle. However...
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Accurate Prediction of Ocean Basins Using Upper Mantle Potential Temperatures
EXPLORING MULTISCALE SOLID-EARTH DYNAMICS USING COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 15 december 2021
Xiyuan Bao, Tushar Mittal, Carolina R. Lithgow-Ber...
The mid-ocean ridges represent a very visible consequence of mantle convection and plate tectonics, and exhibit distinct large-scale geophysical and g...
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Deciphering the nature of LLSVPs using constraints from geoid and dynamic topography
DECIPHERING THE STRUCTURE, MINERALOGY, AND COMPOSITION OF THE LOWER MANTLE II POSTERS
study of earth's deep interior | 09 december 2020
Yaoyi Wang, Lijun Liu, Xiyuan Bao
The two large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) beneath Africa and Pacific, which are important structures of the lower mantle, play a significant...
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