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Wu-Xian Li is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their work primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science, with a marked emphasis on geophysical and geochemical studies related to the composition and tectonics of the Earth's crust.

Their research includes detailed investigation in subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Economics and Econometrics. Wu-Xian Li's contributions focus extensively on topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geochronology of Asian Mineral Deposits

Wu-Xian Li has published in several respected scientific venues, with notable papers appearing in:

  • American Mineralogist
  • Precambrian Research
  • Chemical Geology
  • Tectonophysics
  • Lithos

Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • "Tungsten mineralization during the evolution of a magmatic-hydrothermal system: Mineralogical evidence from the Xihuashan rare-metal granite in South China," 2020, American Mineralogist
  • "Petrogenesis of ca. 830 Ma Lushan bimodal volcanic rocks at the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for asthenospheric upwelling and reworking of juvenile crust," 2020, Precambrian Research
  • "Recycled lower oceanic crust signal in early Jurassic A1-type granites, South China: Implications for flat-slab subduction and mantle heterogeneity in the continental back-arc region," 2024, Chemical Geology
  • "An anomalous rollback process of Mesozoic flat-slab subduction in South China," 2024, Tectonophysics
  • "Reply to the comment on: 'Petrogenesis of cretaceous shoshonitic rocks in the northern Wuyi Mountains, South China: A result of the roll-back of a flat-slab?' by Tian and Wang (2020)," 2020, Lithos

Wu-Xian Li frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Xiao-Long Huang
  • Xuan-Ce Wang
  • Xian-Hua Li
  • Bo Yan
  • Jihua Tao

Best Publications

  • Amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China: Constraints from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd–Hf isotopes of the Shuangxiwu volcanic rocks

    Xian-Hua Li;Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Ching-Hua Lo

  • U-Pb zircon, geochemical and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic constraints on age and origin of Jurassic I- and A-type granites from central Guangdong, SE China: A major igneous event in response to foundering of a subducted flat-slab?

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Wu-Xian Li;Ying Liu

  • Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes

    XianHua Li;GuoQiang Tang;Bing Gong;YueHeng Yang

  • Magmatic and metamorphic events during the early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny, southeastern South China: New age constraints and pressure-temperature conditions

    Zheng-Xiang Li;Xian-Hua Li;Jo-Anne Wartho;Chris Clark

  • 850-790 Ma bimodal volcanic and intrusive rocks in northern Zhejiang, South China: A major episode of continental rift magmatism during the breakup of Rodinia

    Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Ying Liu

  • Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the ~850 Ma Gangbian alkaline complex in South China: Evidence from in situ zircon U-Pb dating, Hf-O isotopes and whole-rock geochemistry

    Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Qiu-Li Li;Xuan-Ce Wang

  • Initiation of the Indosinian Orogeny in South China : Evidence for a Permian Magmatic Arc on Hainan Island

    Xian‐Hua Li;Zheng‐Xiang Li;Wu‐Xian Li;Yuejun Wang

  • Role of mantle-derived magma in genesis of early Yanshanian granites in the Nanling Range, South China: in situ zircon Hf-O isotopic constraints

    XianHua Li;WuXian Li;XuanCe Wang;QiuLi Li

  • SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronological and whole-rock geochemical evidence for an early Neoproterozoic Sibaoan magmatic arc along the southeastern margin of the Yangtze Block

    Mei-Fang Ye;Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Ying Liu

  • Magmatic switch-on and switch-off along the South China continental margin since the Permian: Transition from an Andean-type to a Western Pacific-type plate boundary

    Zheng Xiang Li;Xian Hua Li;Sun Lin Chung;Ching Hua Lo

  • Precise Sm–Nd and U–Pb isotopic dating of the supergiant Shizhuyuan polymetallic deposit and its host granite, SE China

    Xian-Hua Li;Xian-Hua Li;Dunyi Liu;Min Sun;Wu-Xian Li

  • Neoproterozoic bimodal magmatism in the Cathaysia Block of South China and its tectonic significance

    Wu-Xian Li;Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Geochemistry of the 755 Ma Mundine Well dyke swarm, northwestern Australia: Part of a Neoproterozoic mantle superplume beneath Rodinia?

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Michael T.D. Wingate;Sun-Lin Chung

  • On the genetic classification and tectonic implications of the Early Yanshanian granitoids in the Nanling Range, South China

    XianHua Li;WuXian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Formation of high δ18O fayalite-bearing A-type granite by high-temperature melting of granulitic metasedimentary rocks, southern China

    Hui-Qing Huang;Hui-Qing Huang;Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Revisiting the “Yanbian Terrane”: Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the western Yangtze Block, South China

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;James A. Sinclair;Wu-Xian Li

  • SIMS U–Pb zircon geochronology of porphyry Cu–Au–(Mo) deposits in the Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt, eastern China: Magmatic response to early Cretaceous lithospheric extension

    Xian-Hua Li;Wu-Xian Li;Xuan-Ce Wang;Xuan-Ce Wang;Qiu-Li Li

  • The Early Permian active continental margin and crustal growth of the Cathaysia Block: In situ U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope analyses of detrital zircons

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Bin He;Wu-Xian Li

  • Jurassic Gabbro-Granite-Syenite Suites from Southern Jiangxi Province, SE China: Age, Origin, and Tectonic Significance

    Xian-Hua Li;Zhigang Chen;Dunyi Liu;Wu-Xian Li

  • Detrital zircon U-Pb age and Hf isotope constrains on the generation and reworking of Precambrian continental crust in the Cathaysia Block, South China: A synthesis

    Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Wu-Xian Li

  • Obduction-type granites within the NE Jiangxi Ophiolite: Implications for the final amalgamation between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks

    Wu-Xian Li;Xian-Hua Li;Zheng-Xiang Li;Fa-Sheng Lou

Frequent Co-Authors

Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
Xuan-Ce Wang
Xuan-Ce Wang Yunnan University
Xiao-Long Huang
Xiao-Long Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiu-Li Li
Qiu-Li Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Li
Jie Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jin-Hui Yang
Jin-Hui Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yi-Gang Xu
Yi-Gang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simon A. Wilde
Simon A. Wilde Curtin University
Martin Danišík
Martin Danišík Curtin University

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