DATE：2018-05-23    
Infomation  
Name: Bei Xu
Title: Professor
Phone: 62767288
Position: 3305,Yifu Building 2, Peking University, Beijing
Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
1975.08--1978.07 B.S. Hebei College of Geology, Geology
1982.08--1985.06 M.S. China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Stratigraphy
1985.07--1988.08 Ph.D. China University of Geosciences (Beijing) , Tectonics
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
1996.11--1997.10 Visiting Scholar, UCLA, U.S.A.
1996.03--1996.10 Research Fellowship, Regional Council of Centre, France
1992.01--1992.07 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A.
1992.01--1995.12 Young Teacher Research Fellowship, Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation
1988.08--1990.07 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Committee of NSF of China
1978.10--1982.02 Lecturer, Department of Geology, Hebei College of Geology
1990.08--1994.09 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Peking University
1994.10--to now Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
no record
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Tectonics of China, Spring 2008-2015
Field Geology Spring 2008-2015
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest Editor, LITHOS, Springer, 2015
Guest Editor, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Springer, 2015
Reviewer, Precambrian Research, LITHOS, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, International Geology Review, Journal of the Geological Society
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
The ministry of Science and technology of China-The National Key Basic Research Program of China/2013CB429806“Tectonic superposition and large-scale minerogenesis in Xing’an-Mongolia orogenic belt”,RMB 2500000, 01/2013-08/2017 (Xu Bei)
NSFC- Geology/40972126 “Research of the Neoproterozoic ice age in the western Tarim Plate”, RMB 470000, 01/2010-12/2012 (Xu Bei)
NSFC- Geology/40872145 “Record of mélange of closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean in central-western Inner Mongolia”, RMB 440000, 01/2009-12/2011 (Xu Bei)
NSFC- Geology/40572133 “Geochronology and significance of the Sinian three ice ages in the Tarim plate”, RMB 390000, 01/2006-12/2008 (Xu Bei)
NSFC- Geology/40272098 “Evolution and frame of the Orogenic belt in Tongbai- Xinyang-Xinxian area”, RMB 300000, 01/2003-12/2005 (Xu Bei)
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
* Graduate student author
(35) Wu G., Chen Y., Sun F., Liu J., Wang G., Xu B., 2015. Geochronology, geochemistriy, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of the early Paleozoic igneous rocks in the Duobaoshan area, NE China and their geological significance. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , 2015 (97): 229-250
(34) Xu Bei, Song Shuguang, Nie Fengjun, 2015, The central Asian orogenic belt in
northern China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , 2015 (97): 179-182
(33) Xu, B., Zhao, P., Wang, Y., Liao, W., Luo, Z., Bao, Q., Zhou, Y., 2015, The pre- Devonian tectonic framework of Xing’an- Mongolia orogenic belt (XMOB) in north China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , 2015 (97): 183-196
(32) *Liao W, Xu B., Bao QZ., Zhou YH, 2015. Deformation features and muscovite Ar-Ar age of the late Early Paleozoic deformed zone in the southern Xing’an-Mongolia Orogenic Belt. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 31(1): 80-88
(31) *Zhao, P., Fang, J., Xu, B., Chen, Y., Faure, M., 2014. Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Xing-Meng Orogenic Belt: constraints from detrital zircon geochronology of western Erguna-Xing’an Block, North China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (2014), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.04.011
(30) *Wang YY, Xu B, Cheng SD, Liao W, Shao J, and Wang Y. 2014. Zircon U-Pb dating of the mafic lava from Wudaoshimen, Hexigten, Inner Mongoliaand its geological significance, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 30(7): 2055-2062
(29) *Fang JQ, Zhao P, Xu B，Shao J and Wang Y, 2014. Sedimentary facies analyses and discovery of gastropods from Zhesi Formation in the south of West Ujimqin, Inner Mongolia and their significances. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 30(7):1889-1898
(28) Xu B，Zhao P, Bao QZ, Zhou YH, Wang YY and Luo ZW. 2014. Preliminary study on the pre-Mesozoic tectonic unit division of the Xing-Meng orogenic belt (XMOB). Acta Petrologica Sinica, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 30(7): 1841-1857
(27) *Cheng SD, Fang JQ, Zhao P, Xu B, Bao QZ, Zhou YH, Deng RJ. 2014. Detrital zircon ages of the Silurian-Devonian clastic rocks in south and north banks of Xar Moron River, Inner Mongolia, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 30(7): 1909-1921
(26) *P. Zhao, Y. Chen, S. Zhan, B. Xu, M. Faure, 2014, The Apparent Polar Wander Path of the Tarim block (NW China) since the Neoproterozoic and its implications for a long-term Tarim–Australia connection，Precambrian Research,242:39-57
(25) Bei Xu, Haibo Zou, Yan Chen, Jinyou He, Yu Wang, 2013. The Sugetbrak basalts from northwestern Tarim Block of northwestChina: Geochronology, geochemistry and implications for Rodiniabreakup and ice age in the Late Neoproterozoic Precambrian Research, 236 (2013):214-22
(24) Bei Xu, Jacques Charvet, Yan Chen, Pan Zhao, Guanzhong Shi, 2013. Middle Paleozoic convergent orogenic belts in western Inner Mongolia (China): framework, kinematics, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research, 23:1342-1364
(23) *Zhao Pan, Yan Chen, Bei Xu, Michel Faure, Guanzhong Shi, Flavien. C.,2013. Did the Paleo-AsianOcean betweenNorth China Block and Mongolia Block exist during the late Paleozoic? First paleomagnetic evidence from central-eastern Inner Mongolia, China. JGR, 2013，118:1873-1894
(22) *Guanzhong Shi, Michel Faure, Bei Xu, Pan Zhao, Yan Chen , 2013. Structural and kinematic analysis of the Early Paleozoic Ondor Sum-Hongqi mélange belt, Eastern part of the Altaids (CAOB) in Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 66：123-139
(21) *Tong QinLong, Wei Wei, Xu Bei .2013. Neoproterozoic sedimentary facies and glacial periods in the southwest of Tarim Block, Science China-Earth Sciences, 56(6): 901-912
(20) Bei Xu, Shuhai Xiao, Haibo Zou, Yan Chen, Zheng-Xiang Li, Biao Song, Dunyi Liu, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, 2009, SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age constraints on Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh diamictites in NW China, Precambrian Research,168: 247-258
(19) *Pang XY, Wang Y, Wei W, and Xu B. 2009. Sedimentary facies of the Lower Carboniferous Nanmingshui Formation in Fuyun Country, Xinjiang and their paleogeography signification, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 25(03): 682-688
(18) *Wang Y，Wei Wi，Pang XY and Xu B. 2009. Sedimentary characters during the late Devonian in Tacheng area and their tectono-paleogeography signification, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 25(03): 699-707
(17) *Wei W, Pang XY, Wang Y and Xu B. 2009. The sediment faces, provenance evolution and their bearings of the lower Devonian to lower Carboniferous in Shaerbuerti mountain in North Xinjiang, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 25(03): 689-698
(16) Xu Bei, Kou Xiaowei, Song Biao, Wei Wei and Wang Yu, 2008, SHRIMP dating of the upper Proterozoic volcanic rocks in the Tarim plate and constraints on the Neoproterozoic glaciation, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24(12): 2857-2862
(15) Kou Xiaowei, Wang Yu, Wei Wei, He Jingyou and Xu Bei, 2008, The Neoproterozoic Altungol and Huangyanggou Formations in Tarim plate:recognized newly glaciation and interglaciation? Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23(12): 2863-2868
(14) *Deng Rongjing Xu Bei, Qi Jiafu, 2008, Tectonic subsidence of the major Cenozoi basins along the Yingkou-Weifang Fault Zone and its response to the Neighbouring plate movement, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis 44(3): 439-446
(13) *Qiao Erwei, Zheng Haifei, Xu Bei, 2008, No.2 Study of pressure barometer for fluid inclusion: Raman spectroscopy of Hydrocarbon at high temperature and high pressure, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 24(9): 1981-1986
(12) Xu Bei, Huang Shaoying, Zhan Sheng, Deng Rongjing, Liu Bing, 2007, Correlation between Tongbai and Western Dabie Orogenic Belts, Acta Geologica Sinica, 81(1): 32-37
(11) *Liu Bing, Xu Bei, Meng Xiangying, Kou Xiaowei, 2007, Study on the chemical index of alteration of Neoproterozoic strata in the Tarim plate and its implications, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23(7)：1664－1670
(10) *He Jinyou, Xu Bei, Meng Xiangying, Kou Xiaowei, Liu Bing, 2007, Neoproterozoic sequence stratigraphy and correlation in Quruqtagh area, Xinjiang, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23(7):1645-1654
(9) *Zhan Sheng, Chen Yan, Xu Bei, Wang Bo, Faure Miche, 2007, Late Neoproterozoic paleomagnetic results from the Sugetbrak Formation of the Aksu area, Tarim basin (NW China) and their implications to paleogeographic reconstructions and the snowball Earth hypothesis, Precambrian Research 154：143-158
(8) *He Xiubin, Xu Bei and Yuan Zhiyun, 2007, C-isotope composition and correlation of the Upper Neoproterozoix in Keping area, Xinjiang, Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(4):504-511
(7) *Deng Rongjin, Xu Bei, Qi Jiafu, Zhang Lianxue, 2006, Sedimentation characteristics and factors affecting the reservoir in Palaogene Shasan Member of Beitang sag, Huanghua depression, Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica, 25(3): 230-236
(6)* Huang Shaoying, Xu Bei, Wang Changqiu, Zhan Shen, Deng Rongjing, 2006, The geometry,dynamics and evolution of Tongbei orogen belt, Science in China, Series D, 49(8): 828-838
(5) Xu B, Zang JS, Xu HH, Zhang KF, Fang ZC, Shan JX, Cai YE, Wang HY, 2005, Dynamix mechanism of continental deep subduction: results from observation and simulation, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 21(4):1303-1310
(4) Xu, B，P., Jian, HF., Zheng, HP., Zou, LF., Zhang, DY., Liu，2005，U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic volcanic rocks in the Tarim Block of northwest China: implications for the breakup of Rodinia supercontinent and Neoproterozoic glaciations, Precambrian Res. 136：107-123
(3) Xu Bei, Zhang Jiasheng,Xu Hehua, Zhang Kefeng, Fang Zhichu, 2005, Dynamic mechanism of continental deep subduction: results from observation and simulation, Acta Prteologica Sinica, 21(4): 1303-1310
(2) Huang BC, Xu B, Zhang CX, 2005，Paleomagnetism of the Baiyisi volcanic rocks (ca.740 Ma) of Tarim, Northwest China: A continental fragment of neoproterozoic Western Australia? Precambrian Research 142 (3-4): 83-92
(1) *Zhang Keifeng, Fang Zhichu Xu Bei， HeJinyou, 2005, The maximum epth of the continental deep subduction: resultsfrom numerical simulation, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 21(4):1311-1315