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Overview

Xuefa Shi is affiliated with the First Institute of Oceanography in China. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a substantial publication record spanning multiple subfields and topics.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields explored by Shi encompass:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Shi's research covers a range of scientific topics, particularly:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Shi has authored numerous scientific papers, including:

  • Role of delta-front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea-level rise and fluvial sediment decline, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of deep-sea sediments from the western North Pacific Ocean: Constraints on the enrichment processes of rare earth elements, 2021, Ore Geology Reviews
  • Characteristics of coastal aquifer contamination by seawater intrusion and anthropogenic activities in the coastal areas of the Bohai Sea, eastern China, 2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Quantifying the controlling mineral phases of rare-earth elements in deep-sea pelagic sediments, 2022, Chemical Geology
  • Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in Shi's research include:

  • Shengfa Liu
  • Yanguang Liu
  • Aimei Zhu
  • Aleksandr A. Bosin
  • Jianjun Zou

The scientist's work is published across multiple venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as:

  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Marine Geology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Sediment accumulation and budget in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea

    Shuqing Qiao;Xuefa Shi;Guoqing Wang;Lin Zhou

  • The late Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective

    Quanshu Yan;Xuefa Shi;Paterno R. Castillo

  • Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in estuarine–inner shelf regions of the East China Sea: Implications for hydrodynamic forces and anthropogenic impact

    Limin Hu;Xuefa Shi;Zhigang Yu;Tian Lin;Tian Lin

  • Distribution and transport of suspended sediments off the Yellow River (Huanghe) mouth and the nearby Bohai Sea.

    Shuqing Qiao;Xuefa Shi;Aimei Zhu;Yanguang Liu

  • Provenance discrimination of siliciclastic sediments in the middle Okinawa Trough since 30 ka: Constraints from rare earth element compositions

    Yanguang Dou;Shouye Yang;Zhenxia Liu;Peter D. Clift

  • Clay mineral evolution in the central Okinawa Trough since 28 ka: Implications for sediment provenance and paleoenvironmental change

    Yanguang Dou;Shouye Yang;Zhenxia Liu;Peter D. Clift

  • Sources, dispersal and preservation of sedimentary organic matter in the Yellow Sea: The importance of depositional hydrodynamic forcing

    Limin Hu;Limin Hu;Xuefa Shi;Zhigang Guo;Zhigang Guo;Houjie Wang

  • New discharge regime of the Huanghe (Yellow River): Causes and implications

    Yonggui Yu;Yonggui Yu;Houjie Wang;Xuefa Shi;Xiangbin Ran

  • Recent organic carbon sequestration in the shelf sediments of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, China

    Limin Hu;Xuefa Shi;Yazhi Bai;Shuqing Qiao

  • Provenance weathering and erosion records in southern Okinawa Trough sediments since 28ka: Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic evidences

    Yanguang Dou;Shouye Yang;Xuefa Shi;Peter D. Clift

  • The role of shelf mud depositional process and large river inputs on the fate of organochlorine pesticides in sediments of the Yellow and East China seas

    L. M. Hu;T. Lin;X. F. Shi;Z. S. Yang

  • Rare earth elements in fine-grained sediments of major rivers from the high-standing island of Taiwan

    Chuan-Shun Li;Xue-Fa Shi;Shuh-Ji Kao;Yan-Guang Liu

  • Provenances, distribution, and accumulation of organic matter in the southern Mariana Trench rim and slope: Implication for carbon cycle and burial in hadal trenches

    Min Luo;Joris Gieskes;Linying Chen;Xuefa Shi

  • Petrology and geochemistry of Mesozoic granitic rocks from the Nansha micro-block, the South China Sea: Constraints on the basement nature

    Quanshu Yan;Xuefa Shi;Jihua Liu;Kunshan Wang

  • Sr–Nd isotopic constraints on terrigenous sediment provenances and Kuroshio Current variability in the Okinawa Trough during the late Quaternary

    Yanguang Dou;Shouye Yang;Zhenxia Liu;Xuefa Shi

  • East Asia Winter Monsoon changes inferred from environmentally sensitive grain-size component records during the last 2300 years in mud area southwest off Cheju Island, ECS

    Rong Xiang;Zuosheng Yang;Yoshiki Saito;Zhigang Guo

  • Late Quaternary linkage of sedimentary records to three astronomical rhythms and the Asian monsoon, inferred from a coastal borehole in the south Bohai Sea, China

    Liang Yi;Liang Yi;Liang Yi;Hong-Jun Yu;Joseph D. Ortiz;Xing-Yong Xu

  • Role of delta-front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea-level rise and fluvial sediment decline

    Shi Lun Yang;Xiangxin Luo;Stijn Temmerman;Matthew Kirwan

  • Concentrations and possible sources of PAHs in sediments from Bohai Bay and adjacent shelf

    Ningjing Hu;Xuefa Shi;Jihua Liu;Peng Huang

  • Evaluation of FESOM2.0 Coupled to ECHAM6.3: Preindustrial and HighResMIP Simulations

    Dmitry Sidorenko;Helge F. Goessling;Nikolay Koldunov;Nikolay Koldunov;Patrick Scholz

  • Temporal trends of aliphatic and polyaromatic hydrocarbons in the Bohai Sea, China: Evidence from the sedimentary record

    Limin Hu;Limin Hu;Zhigang Guo;Zhigang Guo;Xuefa Shi;Yanwen Qin

  • Major element, trace element, and Sr, Nd and Pb isotope studies of Cenozoic basalts from the South China Sea

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Frequent Co-Authors

Min-Te Chen
Min-Te Chen National Taiwan Ocean University
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Shiming Wan
Shiming Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liang Yi
Liang Yi Tongji University
Ralf Tiedemann
Ralf Tiedemann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Qingsong Liu
Qingsong Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Anchun Li
Anchun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shouye Yang
Shouye Yang Tongji University
Zhigang Guo
Zhigang Guo Fudan University

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