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Xiaoping Long

Xiaoping Long

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
10641
World Ranking
2290
National Ranking
146

Overview

Xiaoping Long is affiliated with Northwest University in China and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The scientist has a significant focus on subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence applications in geosciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Geology.

Their research topics encompass a range of geological and geochemical analyses, high-pressure geophysics and materials studies, earthquake and tectonic investigations, as well as geochemical and geologic mapping and elemental analysis. Additionally, they have studied paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils along with broader geological and geophysical studies.

Frequent coauthors in Xiaoping Long's work include Caiyun Lan, Jingyu Wang, Jie Li, Yunpeng Dong, and Zongying Huang, indicating a collaborative research environment involving multiple researchers across various topics.

The scientist has published extensively in a number of academic venues, with the most frequent being Precambrian Research, where 24 publications are recorded. Other significant publication venues include Goldschmidt Abstracts, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Lithos, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Some recent papers by Xiaoping Long are:

  • Dating and characterizing primary gas accumulation in Precambrian dolomite reservoirs, Central Sichuan Basin, China: Insights from pyrobitumen Re-Os and dolomite U-Pb geochronology (2020), published in Precambrian Research
  • Pulsed oxygenation events drove progressive oxygenation of the early Mesoproterozoic ocean (2021), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Two late Carboniferous belts of Nb-enriched mafic magmatism in the Eastern Tianshan: Heterogeneous mantle sources and geodynamic implications (2020), published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution and proto-basin of the Yangtze Block, China (2024), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Chlorite as an exploration indicator for concealed skarn mineralization: Perspective from the Tonglushan Cu-Au-Fe skarn deposit, Eastern China (2020), published in Ore Geology Reviews

Best Publications

  • Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic study of gneissic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Progressive accretionary history in the early to middle Palaeozoic

    Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao;Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long

  • Accretionary orogenesis of the Chinese Altai: Insights from Paleozoic granitoids

    Chao Yuan;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Wenjiao Xiao;Xianhua Li

  • Archean crustal evolution of the northern Tarim craton, NW China: Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic constraints

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Guochun Zhao

  • Reworking of the Tarim Craton by underplating of mantle plume-derived magmas: Evidence from Neoproterozoic granitoids in the Kuluketage area, NW China

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Alfred Kröner

  • Triassic granitoids in the eastern Songpan Ganzi Fold Belt, SW China: Magmatic response to geodynamics of the deep lithosphere

    Chao Yuan;Mei-Fu Zhou;Min Sun;Yongjiu Zhao

  • Detrital zircon age and Hf isotopic studies for metasedimentary rocks from the Chinese Altai: Implications for the Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Post-collisional plutons in the Balikun area, East Chinese Tianshan: Evolving magmatism in response to extension and slab break-off

    Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Simon Wilde;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Late Carboniferous high-Mg dioritic dikes in Western Junggar, NW China: Geochemical features, petrogenesis and tectonic implications

    Jiyuan Yin;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Xiaoping Long

  • Geochemistry and U–Pb detrital zircon dating of Paleozoic graywackes in East Junggar, NW China: Insights into subduction–accretion processes in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Inna Safonova

  • Detrital zircon ages and Hf isotopes of the early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, NW China: New constrains on depositional age, provenance and tectonic evolution

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Early Paleozoic sedimentary record of the Chinese Altai: Implications for its tectonic evolution

    Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Early Paleozoic ridge subduction in the Chinese Altai: Insight from the abrupt change in zircon Hf isotopic compositions

    Min Sun;XiaoPing Long;XiaoPing Long;KeDa Cai;YingDe Jiang

  • Prolonged magmatism, juvenile nature and tectonic evolution of the Chinese Altai, NW China: Evidence from zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic study of Paleozoic granitoids

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic significance of peraluminous granites from the Chinese Altai, NW China

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Zircon U–Pb chronology, Hf isotope analysis and whole-rock geochemistry for the Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic Yudongzi complex, northwestern margin of the Yangtze craton, China

    Bo Hui;Yunpeng Dong;Yunpeng Dong;Chao Cheng;Xiaoping Long

  • Geochemistry and Nd isotopic composition of the Early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, Central Asia: Evidence for a northward-derived mafic source and insight into Nd model ages in accretionary orogen

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Wenjiao Xiao

  • Geochronological and geochemical study of mafic dykes from the northwest Chinese Altai: Implications for petrogenesis and tectonic evolution

    Keda Cai;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Guochun Zhao

  • Zircon REE patterns and geochemical characteristics of Paleoproterozoic anatectic granite in the northern Tarim Craton, NW China: Implications for the reconstruction of the Columbia supercontinent

    Xiaoping Long;Xiaoping Long;Min Sun;Chao Yuan;Alfred Kröner

  • Precambrian detrital zircons in the Early Paleozoic Chinese Altai: Their provenance and implications for the crustal growth of central Asia

    Yingde Jiang;Min Sun;Guochun Zhao;Chao Yuan

  • Underplating of basaltic magmas and crustal growth in a continental arc: Evidence from Late Mesozoic intermediate–felsic intrusive rocks in southern Qiangtang, central Tibet

    Lu Lu Hao;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Quan Ou

Frequent Co-Authors

Chao Yuan
Chao Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Min Sun
Min Sun University of Hong Kong
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keda Cai
Keda Cai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong
Xiaoping Xia
Xiaoping Xia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunpeng Dong
Yunpeng Dong Northwest University
Fu-Yuan Wu
Fu-Yuan Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Li
Jie Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simon A. Wilde
Simon A. Wilde Curtin University

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