Research Interests

·   Composition and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Ocean/West Pacific Ocean

·   Relationship between the structure of arc crust and Nb-Ta fractionation in mafic rocks

·   Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of South China

·   Tectono-magmatic evolution of Mesozoic southeast China

Projects

·   Origin of superchondritic Nb/Ta from mafic rocks in the eastern Jiangnan Orogen (42002237), 2021.01-2023.12, 240K RMB, National Science Foundation of China-Youth project, Lead PI;

·   Emplacement time and tectonic setting of Cenozoic mafic rocks in the central Fujian and North Jiangxi, South China (2018M640849), 2019.01-2020.06, 80K RMB, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Lead PI;

·   Significant zircon Hf-O change of Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks in the Jiangnan Orogen and its constraint on details during amalgamation of South China (19lgpy68), 2019.01-2020.12, 80K RMB, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Lead PI.

Publications

·   Cui, X., Zhu, W., Jourdan, F., 2020. Subduction-related subcontinental lithospheric mantle metasomatism and crustal thickening: origin for superchondritic Nb/Ta in mafic dykes. Journal of the Geological Society, 178. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-120

· Liu, H., Zi, J.W., Cawood, P.A., Cui, X., Zhang, L., 2020. Reconstructing South China in the Mesoproterozoic and its role in the Nuna and Rodinia supercontinents. Precambrian Research, 337, 105558.

·   Zhang, L., Cawood, P.A., Wang, Y., Cui, X., Zhang, Y., Qian, X., Zhang, F., 2020. Provenance Record of Late Mesoproterozoic to Early Neoproterozoic Units, West Hainan, South China, and Implications for Rodinia Reconstruction. Tectonics, 39(8), e2020TC006071.

·   Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., Cui, X., Cawood, P. A., Wang, Y., Zhang, A., 2019. Mesoproterozoic rift setting of SW Hainan: Evidence from the gneissic granites and metasedimentary rocks. Precambrian Research, 325, 69–87.

·   Cui, X., Zhu, W., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Wang, X., Lu, Y., Wu, X., 2017. A possible transition from island arc to continental arc magmatism in the eastern Jiangnan Orogen, South China: insights from a Neoproterozoic (870–860 Ma) gabbroic–dioritic complex near the Fuchuan ophiolite. Gondwana Research 46, 1–16.

·   Cui, X., Zhu, W., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., He, J., Lu, Y., Wang, X., Ge, R., Zheng, B., Wu, X., 2015.U–Pb age and Hf isotope composition of detrital zircons from Neoproterozoic sedimentary units in southern Anhui Province, South China: Implications for the provenance, tectonic evolution and glacial history of the eastern Jiangnan Orogen. Precambrian Research 271, 65–82.

·   Ge, R., Zhu, W., Wilde, S. A., He, J., Cui, X., 2015. Synchronous crustal growth and reworking recorded in late Paleoproterozoic granitoids in the northern Tarim craton: in situ zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopic and geochemical constraints and tectonic implications. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127 (5–6), 781–803.

·   Cui, X., Zhu, W., Ge, R., 2014. Provenance and crustal evolution of the northern Yangtze Block revealed by detrital zircons from Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China. Journal of Geology 122(2), 217–235.

·   Ge, R., Zhu, W., Wilde, S.A., He, J., Cui, X., Wang, X., Zheng, B., 2014. Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic long-lived accretionary orogeny in the northern Tarim Craton. Tectonics 33(3), 302–329.

·   Wang, X., Zhu, W., Luo, M., Ren, X., Cui, X., 2014. Approximately 1.78 Ga mafic dykes in the Luliang Complex, North China Craton: Zircon ages and Lu-Hf isotopes, geochemistry, and implications. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15, 3123–3144.