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Yigang Xu
Director/Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professional Experience
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director/Professor
2010 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1994
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
Citation
For breakthroughs and outstanding contributions in understanding the cratonic upper mantle, continental flood basalts, and mantle wedge processes
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Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Fellows Committee
Publications
Revisiting the Tianwen Yellow Pumice (TYP) Eruption of Changbaishan Volcano: Tephra Correlation, Eru...
Changbaishan volcano (China/North Korea) is one of the most active and hazardous volcanic centers in Northeast Asia. Despite decades of intensive r...
April 23, 2024
Stable Zirconium Isotopic Compositions of the Metasomatized ...
February 07, 2024
Big Mantle Wedge and Intraplate Volcanism in Alaska: Insight...
December 30, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Mantle anisotropy beneath the seismic zones in the Central and Eastern United States
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Xuran Liang, Dapeng Zhao, Yuanyuan Hua, Yigang Xu
The central and eastern United States (CEUS) is characterized by the stable North American Craton, but the presence of three intraplate seismic zones ...
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Limited water outflux from the subducted slab serpentinite via Mariana arc-basin magmatism
CONVERGENT MARGIN DYNAMICS I POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2023
Siyu Zhao, Alexandra Y. Yang, Zhiyuan Zhou, Yoshih...
The water cycle between Earths surface and interior controls the long-term stability of sea level. Sediment and altered oceanic crust, have long been ...
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Migration of Middle-Late Jurassic volcanism across the northern North China Craton in response to subduction of Paleo-Pacific Plate
EAST ASIA: FROM DEEP LITHOSPHERE EXPLORATION TO GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION III ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2022
Jianfang Guo, Qiang Ma, Yigang Xu, Jianping Zhang,...
The primary driver of magmatism, crustal deformation and metallogeny of the North China Craton in the Jurassic remains actively debated, either attrib...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2026
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Fellows Committee
2023 - 2023
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Fellows Committee
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