Publications

(* denotes undergraduate student, # denotes graduate student, ^ denotes postdoc)

-2026-

  • Xu, Q., Song, X., Ding, L., He, R., Yuan, X., Zhao, J., Liu, H., Pei, S., He, X., Ongoing process of lower crustal foundering promoted by tearing of the Indian slab in southern Tibet, 2026, Under review.
  • Wu, Y., Tian, X., Liang, X., Li, Y., He, X., Lateral Variation of Water Content in the Mantle Transition Zone beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Its Geodynamics Implications, 2026, Submitted.
  • Guo, P., Zhang, P., Chen, Y., Wang, X., Zhao, Y., He, X., Niu, Y., Ridgeward mantle flowing produces non-plume seamounts and its implications for the contribution of global MORB compositional variations, 2026, Under review.
  • Song,J., Pan F., Zhang, H., Xie P., He, X., Guo, L., Xu, W., Luo, B., Deciphering Indian Crust Recycling by Miocene Gangdese Potassic and Calc-alkaline Magmas: Evidence from In-Situ Sr-Nd-Pb Isotopes, 2026, Under review.
  • Zhang, R., Wang, D., Cao, N., Bondar D., Zhou, C., Yang, K., Chen, P., Ma, J., Wang, B., Shen, K., Sun, Y., He, X., Elastic velocities of iron-rich olivine constrain the Martian mantle’s iron content and thermal structure, 2026, Under review.
  • Sun, S., Redfern, S. A. T., He, X., Zhang, B., Hou, M., Mao, Z., Ni, S., Li, H., He, Y., Electric field-driven anisotropic hydrous texture at Earth’s lowermost mantle, 2026, Under review.
  • Ivan, M., Petrescu, L., & He, X., Wang, Y., PKIKPPKIKP vs PKiKPPKiKP: A New Pair of Seismic Phases for Mapping the Earth’s Inner Core, 2026, Under review.
  • Wang, Z., Wang, Q., Zhang, J., Capitanio, F., Huang, F., He, X., Wang, C., Wen, B., Tao, R., Kusky, T., Head-to-tail shrinking and sinking of the Hawaiian mantle plume, 2026, under review.

-2025-

Cao, L., He, X., Zhao L., et al., Frequency-dependent anisotropy and upper plate deformation due to seamount subduction in northern Luzon, GRL, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119325.

He, X., He, M.(#), Wang, X., Zhao, M., Dong, M., Subduction Initiation and Mafic Intrusions: Rethinking the South China Sea–Luzon Connection, CT Theory and Applications, 2025, 34(5): 1-4. DOI:10.15953/j.ctta.2025.176.

He, X., He, M.(#), Li, Y., Hu, J., Pan, F., Wang, Z., Lei, J., Changbaishan Volcanism: Is Seamount Subduction the Missing Piece? Journal of Earth Science, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-025-0181-x.

Pan, F., Wu, X., Wang, C., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., He, X., Jin, C., Zhou, L., Zhang, H., He, H., Zhang, J., Iron disproportionation in peridotite fragments from the mantle transition zone, Nature Communications, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60566-y.

Wang, X., Zhao, M., He, X., Zhang, J., Cheng, J. Mao, H., Seismic imaging revealing the processes from subduction to arc-continental collision in the northeastern South China Sea, Tectonophysics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2025.230684.

Xiong, C., Deng, Y., Ye, X., Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Lü, Z., Wang, X., Gong, X., He, X., Quaternary sediment thicknesses, paleochannels and disaster risk assessment revealed by a 6200-station array in the Greater Bay Area, South China, BSSA, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120240214.

-2024-

He, X., and Zhou, Q. (#), Explicit role of seamount subduction in upper plate deformation as exemplified in the Ryukyu subduction zone, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2024.106354.

Cao, L., He, X., Yuan H., Zhao, M., Qiu, X., Savage, M. K. Upper-mantle seismic anisotropy in the southwestern North Island, New Zealand: Implications for regional upper-mantle and slab deformation, Tectonophysics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230455.

Zhou, B. (#), and He, X. , No basalt accumulation and segregation atop the 660-km discontinuity beneath the Sea of Okhotsk, Earth and Planetary Physics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2024034.

Cao, L., Lv, C., He, X., Rawlinson, N., Hao, T., et. al., Mantle flow induced by the interplay of downgoing slabs revealed by seismic anisotropy beneath the Sula Block in eastern Indonesia, JGR-Solid Earth, 2024, DOI: 10.1029/2023JB028110.

Li, X., He, X., Xu, S., Li, H., & Jiang, G., A flat lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (~60 km depth) in central Eastern China: implications for lithospheric destruction and evolution, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2024.106035.

-2023-

Pan, C. (*), and He, X., Subducting passive margins with crustal (ultra)mafic intrusions: An underappreciated mechanism for recycling water back into the mantle, Earth and Planetary Physics, 2023, http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2023074.

Pan, F-B, Zhang, H., He, X., et al., Lithosphere tearing and foundering during continental subduction: insights from Oligocene-Miocene magmatism in southern Tibet, GSAB, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1130/B36746.1.

Wang, X., Cao, L., Zhao, M., Cheng, J., & He, X., What conditions promote atypical subduction: Insights from the Mussai Trench, the Hjort Trench, and the Gagua Ridge, Gondwana Research, 2023, doi.org/j.gr.2022.10.014.

Li, J., Chen, S., He, X., Wang, W., & Yang, F., Middle-lower mantle scatterers: Detection methods, Research progress and prospect, Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 2023, 54(3): 339-354.

-2022-

He, X., Small-scale heterogeneity and seismic anisotropy in the mid-mantle: oceanic crust versus meta-stable olivine, Journal of Earth Science, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-022-1700-7.

He, X., Tao, J.(#), Cao, Y., Pan, F.-B., He, E., Cao, L., & Zheng, Y.(#), No seamount subduction, no magmatic arc? Earth and Planetary Physics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2022031.

-2021-

Pan, F.-B., Jin, C., He, X., Tao, L., & Jia, B.-J., A plate-mantle convection system in West Pacific revealed by Tertiary ultramafic-mafic volcanic rocks in Southeast China, Earth and Space Science, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001324.

Cao, L., He, X., Zhao, L., Lu C., Hao, T., Zhao, M., and Qiu, X., Mantle Flow Patterns Beneath the Junction of Multiple Subduction Systems Between the Pacific and Tethys Domains, SE Asia: Constraints From SKS-Wave Splitting Measurements, G-cubed, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009700.

-2020-

Wang, L. (#), and He, X., Sharpness of the paired 660-km discontinuity beneath the Izu-Bonin area, Earth and Planetary Physics, 2020, https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2020067.

Wang, L.(#), and He, X., Seismic anisotropy in the Java-Banda and Philippine subduction zones and its implications for the mantle flow system beneath the Sunda Plate, G-cubed, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008658.

Tao, J.(#), Hu, J. (#), Jin, C. and He, X., Seismic evidence links the subducted Mongol-Okhotsk slab to deformation in D” near the northeastern margin of the Perm Anomaly, Tectonophysics, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228297.

-2019-

Tao, L., Pan, F.-B., Liu, R., Jin, C., Jia, B.-J., and He, X., Petrogenesis of the Cretaceous granitoids in Zhejiang, northeast South China Block and their implications for episodic retreat and roll-back of the Paleo-Pacific Plate, The Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2019, doi: 10.1130/B35426.1.

Hu, J.(#), and He, X., Seismic evidence for a paleo-slab in the D” layer residing adjacent to the southeastern edge of the Perm Anomaly, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2019, doi: 10.1029/2019GC008195.

Zou, Y.(#), Tian, X., Yu, Y., Pan, F-B., Wang, L.(#), and He, X., Seismic evidence for the existence of an entrained mantle flow coupling the northward advancing Indian plate under Tibet, Earth and Planetary Physics, 2019, 3: 1-7, http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2019007.

-2018-

Pan, F.-B., Jin, C., Jia, B.-J., Liu, R., He, X., Gao, Z., Tao, L., Zhou, X.-C., and Zhang, L.-Q., A Late Mesozoic short-lived shift from fluid-dominated to sediment-dominated mantle metasomatism in NW Zhejiang, NE South China Block and its tectonic implications, Lithos, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2018.04.019.

 Pan, F.-B., Liu, R. Jin, C., Jia, B.-J., He, X., Gao, Z., Tao, L., Zhou, X.-C., and Zhang, L.-Q., Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous granitoids from southwest Zhejiang, NE South China Block and its geodynamic implication, Lithos, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2018.03.011.

 He, X., and Zheng, Y. (#), S-to-P conversions from mid-mantle slow scatterers in slab regions: observations of deep/stagnated oceanic crust?  Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s00024-017-1763-z.

-2017-

The 1st Paper wrote with Undergraduate Students

 He, H. (*), Pan, F.-B. (^), Chen, H., Zhang Y. (*), Zheng, X. (*), and He, X., Subducting continental lower crust and crustal thickness variations in the intermediate seismic zone of Pamir-Hindu Kush inferred from Moho underside reflection pmP. Tectonophysics, 2017, 718(30): 132-139, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.04.004.

 Ivan, M., and He, X., Uppermost inner core heterogeneity from differential travel times of PKIKP vs. PKP-Bdiff and PKP-Cdiff phases. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2017, 174: 249-259, doi: 10.1007/s00024-016-1391-z.

-2015-

The 1st Paper wrote with My Graduate Student (master course)

 Yang, Z.(#), and He, X., Oceanic crust in the mid-mantle beneath West-Central Pacific subduction zones: Evidence from S to P converted waveforms. Geophysical Journal International, 2015, 203(1): 541-547, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv314.

Four Papers Wrote with my Postdoctoral Advisors

 Ford, H. A., Long, M. D., He, X., and Lynner, C., Lowermost mantle flow at the eastern edge of the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015, 420: 12-22.

-2012-

 Choi, H., Hong, T.-K., He, X., and Baag, C.-E., Seismic evidence for reverse activation of a paleo-rifting system in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Tectonophysics, 2012, 572-573, 123-133.

-2011-

 He, X., and Long, M. D., Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the northwestern Pacific: Evidence from PcS, ScS, SKS, and SKKS phases. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2011, doi: 10.1029/2011G003779.

-2010-

 He, X., and Hong, T.-K., Evidence for strong ground motion by waves refracted from the Conrad discontinuity. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 2010, 100(3): 1370-1374.

Three Papers wrote with My Doctoral Advisors

-2008-

 He, X., Zhou, H., Ma, Y., and Niu, F., Synthetic study on SS waveform splitting and complication. Acta Seism. Sinica, 2008, 30(1): 35-45.

-2005-

 He, X., and Zhou, H., The low degree spherical harmonic analysis on the large scale topographies of the Moho and the Upper Mantle discontinuities. Journal of the Graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005, 22(3): 315-321.

 He, X., and Zhou, H., Arrival time measurements of first arrival phases P and PKIKP using the method of fixed scale wavelet transformation ratio. Acta Seism. Sinica, 2005, 18(4): 410-418.