Areas of Focus
- Southeast China crust-mantle interaction and lithospheric dynamics
- Granite petrogenesis and mineralization mechanisms
- Mantle rock geochemistry
Publications
- H2O-Controlled Eruptive Filtering on the Bimodality of Continental Volcanism across Tectonic Settings, Kai Zhao, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Olivier Bachmann, Tongchao Nan, Yan Xia, 2023
- A review of the genetic mechanisms generating igneous charnockite: CO2 flushing and crystal-melt segregation in mushy reservoirs, Kai Zhao, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Reiner Klemd, Zhenyu He, Xisong Zhang, 2023
- The strongly peraluminous, garnet‑bearing norite–quartz jotunite–charnockite suite: products of crystal accumulation in the felsic magma reservoir, Xi-Song Zhang, Xi-Sheng Xu*, Kai Zhao, 2022
