Research Interests

·   Seismology

·   Tectonophysics

·   Geodynamics

Publications

·   Xu, H., Yu. Y., Xi, J. (2024). Deflected Mantle Flow and Shearing-Aligned Lithospheric Melt Under the Strike-Slip Dead Sea Rift. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2024JB029654.

·   Xi, J., Yu, Y., Zhao, D. & Hu, J. (2024). Modification of Archean cratons in southern Africa with foundered segments dropped into the shallow lower mantle. Geology, 51(12), 1117-1121.

·   Yu, Y., Tilmann, F., Gao, S. S., Liu, K. H., & Xi, J. (2023). Insights into initial continental rifting of marginal seas from seismic evidence for slab relics in the mid-mantle of the Woodlark rift, southwestern Pacific. Geology, 51(12), 1117-1121.

·   Xi, J., Jiang, G., Zhao, D., Zhang, G., She, L., Lü, Q., & Shi, D. (2023). Hot mantle upwelling and Mesozoic mineralization in Southeast China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 105648.

·   She, L., Zhang, G., Jiang, G., Zhao, D., Xi, J., Lü, Q., & Shi, D. (2023). Slab Morphology Around the Philippine Sea: New Insights From P‐Wave Mantle Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(1), e2022JB024757.

·   Xi, J., Jiang, G., & Zhang, G. (2021). Study on deep velocity structure along a broadband seismic profile below the middle part of the Cathaysia block. Acta Geologica Sinica, 95(3), 779- 790. (In Chinese with English abstract)