PUBLICATIONS

Publications

*= PhD student, **=visiting PhD student; †= master’s student; § = undergraduate student; #= postdoc

Accepted

• da Silva Ricardo, B., Oeser, M., Lynn, K., Bennett, N., Chu, X., Henderson, G., Liu, Y., Weyer, S., Sio, C.K.I., Chemical and isotopic fractionation during melt inclusion formation. Geology

• Guo, S, Hermann, J, Chu, X, Hu, Y, Chen, Y., Fei C., Substantial carbon dioxide release from subducted dolomitic carbonate driven by episodic infiltration of eclogite-facies fluids. Geology

2024

• Wang, W**, Chu, X., Zhang, J, Cui, Y., Chen, X., Wang, Y., and Su, S. (2024) The climatic pattern of East Asia shifted in response to cratonic thinning in the early Cretaceous. Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 728. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01841-6.

• Tang, M., Guo, Z., Cao, W., and Chu, X. (2024) Revisiting zircon Eu anomaly as a proxy for crustal thickness: A case study of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 643, 118897. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.epsl.2024.118897.

• Zhou, Z.*, Chu, X., Tang, M., and Leybourne, M., (2024). Exploring hindered decarbonation in contact metamorphism: A glimpse into marble aureoles in Southern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 626, 118519.  https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118519.

• Chen, J.*, and Chu, X., (2024) Bridging the gap in garnet diffusion models at low temperatures: Recalibration using Western Tianshan eclogitic breccia. Journal of Petrology, 63(3), egae012. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae012.

• Chen, J.*, Zou, Y., and Chu, X. (2024) DIFFUSUP: a graphical user interface (GUI) software for diffusion modeling. Applied Computing & Geosciences. 22, 100157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acags.2024.100157.

• Zhou, Z.*, Chu, X., and Chen, J. (2024) The timescale and carbon flux recorded by calcsilicate assemblages from Gangdese arc, southern Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(3), e2023JB028463, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028463.

• Fan, X.†, Sio, C.K.I., Chu, X., and Jiang, H.#, (2024) Development of in situ Li isotope analysis using laser ablation quadrupole ICPMS. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 38(2), e9668. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9668.

• Ji, S., Huang, F., Wang, S., Gupta, P., Seyfried, W., Zhang, H., Chu, X., Cao, W., ZhangZhou, J. (2024) Identifying serpentine polymorphs with machine learning: Implications for mass transfer in subduction zones. American Mineralogist. 109(2), 315-324. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8688

2023

• Chu, X., Akça, O.†, Gaidies, F., Gennaro, I.†, Ji, W. (2023) Thermal pulse induced by emplacement of Ramba leucogranites in southern Tibet. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 41(1), 121–141. https://doi.org/10.1111/​jmg.12690

• Gennaro, I.†, Weber, J., Vitale Brovarone, A., Arkle, J., Chu, X. (2023) Geothermometric constraints on the thermal architecture, metamorphism, and exhumation of the Northern Range, Trinidad. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 41(2), 327–349. http://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12697

• Zou, Y., Mitchell, R.N., Chu, X., Brown, M., Jiang, J., Li, Q., Zhao, L., Zhai M. (2023) Surface evolution during the mid-Proterozoic stalled by mantle warming under Columbia-Rodinia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 607, 118055, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118055.

• Wu, G.-H.**, Chu, X., Tang, M., Li, W., Chen, F. (2023) Distinct tectono-magmatism on the margins of Rodinia and Gondwana. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 609, 118099, https://doi.org/10.1016/​j.epsl.2023.118099.

• 2022

• Chen, J.*, Jiang, H.#, Tang, M., Hao, J., Tian, M., Chu, X., (2022). Venus' light slab hinders its development of planetary-scale subduction. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35304-3

• Zhao, P.**, Zajacz, Z., Tsay, A., Chu, X., Cheng, Q., & Yuan, S. (2022). The partitioning behavior of Mo during magmatic fluid exsolution and its implications for Mo mineralization. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 339, 115-126 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.10.020 (primary collaborator: Zajacz)

• Guo, S., Hermann, J., Tang, P., Chu, X., Chen, Y., & Su, B. (2022). Formation of carbon-bearing silicate melts by melt-metacarbonate interaction at convergent plate margins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 597, 117816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117816

• Zou, Y., Chu, X., Wu, J., & Zhao, L. (2022). No evidence for Archean eclogite-facies metamorphism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(39), e2208090119. https://doi.org/10.1073/​pnas.2208090119

• Fan, X. §, Chu, X., Cao, W., Zou, Y., (2022) Local rapid exhumation and fast cooling in long-lived Grenville Orogeny. In S. J. Whitmeyer, M. L. Williams, D. A. Kellett, B. Tikoff (Eds) GSA Memoirs, Laurentia: An Evolving Continent. https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.1220(18)

• Chu, X., Zhou, Z.* (2022). Decarbonation in contact metamorphism. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 38(5), 1328 1–1344. https://doi.org/10.18654/1000-0569/2022.05.04 invited review in Chinese

• Zhao, P.**, Chu, X., Williams-Johns, A.E., Mao, J., Yuan, S., (2022) The role of phyllosilicate partial melting in segregating W and Sn Deposits in W-Sn metallogenic provinces. Geology, 50(1), 121–125. https://doi.org/​10.1130/G49248.1

• Brudner, A.†, Jiang, H.#, Chu, X., Tang, M., (2022). Is the Grenville Plateau a Proteroizoic analog of Tibet? Geology, 50(4): 402–406. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49591.1  

• 2021

• Li, Q.**, Zhang, L., Chu, X., Zhang, G., Bader, T., Wang, Y. and Wu, C., 2021. Metamorphic PT path, U-Pb zircon dating and tectonic implications of High-pressure Pelitic Granulites from the Kharta region, Southern Tibet, China. Gondwana Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.07.006.

• Zou, Y., Li, Q., Chu, X., Zhai, M., Mitchell, R. N., Zhao, L., ... & Liu, B. (2021). Older orogens cooled slower: new constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176(11), 1-24. https://​doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01846-w

• Tang, M., Chu, X., Hao, J., Shen, B. (2021). Orogenic quiescence in Earth's middle age. Science 371, 728-731. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1876

• Wu, J.-L., Zhai, M.-G., Hu, B., Zhang, H.-F., Chu, X., Zhou, N.-C., Zhang, L., Zhang, H. (2021). Garnet perspectives on the metamorphic history and tectonic significance of Paleoproterozoic high-pressure mafic granulites from the northern Hengshan, North China Craton. Lithos 394-395, 106139. https://doi.org/​10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106139

• Piccoli, F., Ague, J.J., Chu, X., Tian, M., Vitale Brovarone, A. (2021). Field-based evidence for intra-slab high-permeability channel formation at eclogite-facies conditions during subduction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22, e2020GC009520. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009520

• Tang, M., Ji, W.-Q., Chu, X., Wu, A., Chen, C. (2021). Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons. Geology 49, 76-80. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47745.1

2020

• Anderson, M.O., Chu, X., Gregory, D. (2020) Remote undergraduate geoscience education: Lectures. GEOLOG 49(4), 11–15. Non-refereed.

• Guo, S., Chu, X., Hermann, J., Chen, Y., Li, Q-L., Wu, F., Liu, C., Sein, K. (2020). Multiple episodes of fluid infiltration along a single metasomatic channel in metacarbonates (Mogok metamorphic belt, Myanmar) and implications for CO2 release in orogenic belts. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126, e2020JB020988. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2020JB020988

• Yang, J., Cao, W., Gordon, S.M., Chu, X. (2020). Does underthrusting crust feed magmatic flare-ups in continental arcs? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21, e2020GC009152. https://doi.org/10.1029/​2020GC009152

• Zou, Y.**, Chu, X., Li, Q. L., Mitchell, R. N., Zhai, M. G., Zou, X., Zhao, L., Wang, Y. Q., Liu, B. (2020). Local rapid exhumation and fast cooling in a long-lived Paleoproterozoic orogeny. Journal of Petrology 61(10), egaa091. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa091

• Cao, W., Yang, J., Zuza, A.V., Ji, W.-Q., Ma, X.-X., Chu, X., Burgess, Q.P., (2020). Crustal tilting and differential exhumation of Gangdese Batholith in southern Tibet revealed by bedrock pressures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 543, 116347 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116347

2019

• Chu, X., Lee, C.-T. A., Dasgupta, R., Cao, W., (2019). The contribution to exogenic CO2 by contact metamorphism: A coupled model of fluid flux and metamorphic decarbonation in the system calcite + quartz. American Journal of Sciences, 319(8): 631-657. https://doi.org/10.2475/08.2019.01

2018

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Tian, M, Baxter, E., Chamberlain P.C., Rumble D., (2018). Testing for rapid pulses of crustal-scale heat transfer using garnet growth-fractionation-diffusion simulation in metamorphic "Hot Spots", New Hampshire, USA. Journal of Petrology, 59, 1939–1964. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/​egy085

• Zhang, L.-J., Chu, X., Zhang L.-F., Fu, B., Bader, T., Du, J., Li, X.-L. (2018). The early exhumation history of the Western Tianshan UHP metamorphic belt, China: New constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and thermobarometry. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 36, 631–651. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12422

• Vitale Brovarone A., Chu, X., Martin, L., Ague, J. J., Monié, P., Groppo, C., Martinez, I., and Chaduteau, C., (2018). Intra-slab COH fluid fluxes evidenced by decarbonation of lawsonite eclogite-facies altered oceanic metabasalts. Lithos, 304-307, 211-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.01.028

• Tian, M., Ague, J.J., Chu, X., Baxter, E.F., Sullivan, N., Chamberlain, C.P., and Douglas III, R., (2018). The Potential for Metamorphic Thermal Pulses to Develop during Compaction-Driven Fluid Flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 232–256. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007269

• Before 2018

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Podladchikov, Y.Y., Tian, M., 2017. Ultrafast eclogite formation via melting-induced overpressure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.007

• Tao, R.B, Zhang, L.F., Stagno, V., Chu, X., Liu, X., 2017. High-pressure experimental verification of rutile-ilmenite oxybarometer: Implications for the redox state of the subduction zone. Science China Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/​10.1007/s11430-016-9082-5

• Zhang L.J., Chu, X., Zhang L.F., Du, J.X., 2017. Combined modeling of major and trace element zonation of garnet and clinopyroxene in aegirine eclogite from southwestern Tianshan UHP metamorphic belt, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 145B, 408–423. (co-first authors) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.05.002

• -  Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Axler, J.A., and Tian, M., 2016. Taconic retrograded eclogite in Northwest Connecticut, USA, and its petrotectonic implications. Lithos, 240–243, 276-294. (Invited Research Article) https://doi.org/10.1016/ ​j.lithos.2015.10.011

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., 2015. Analysis of experimental data on divalent cation diffusion kinetics in aluminosilicate garnets with application to timescales of peak Barrovian metamorphism, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 170, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-015-1175-y

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., 2013. Phase equilibria for graphitic metapelite including solution of CO2 in melt and cordierite: implications for dehydration, partial melting, and graphite precipitation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 31, 843-862. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12047

• Ague, J.J., Eckert, J.O., Jr., Chu, X., Baxter, E.F., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2013. Discovery of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the Acadian orogen, Connecticut, USA. Geology, 41, 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1130/G33752.1

• Chu, X., Korenaga, J., 2012. Olivine rheology, shear stress, and grain growth in the lithospheric mantle: Geological constraints from the Kaapvaal Craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 333-334, 52-62. https://​doi.org/​10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.019

• Du, J., Zhang, L., Lu, Z., and Chu, X., 2011. Lawsonite-bearing chloritoid-glaucophane schist from SW Tianshan, China: Phase equilibria and P-T path. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 42, 684–693. https://doi.org/10.1016/​j.jseaes.2011.04.003

Conference Presentations (group members as first authors; recent five years)

• Wang, W**, Chu, X., Zhang, J., Cui, Y., Chen, X., Wang, Y., Su, S. (2024) Early Cretaceous shift in climatic pattern of East Asian hinterland in response to crustal thinning: Insights from skarn Garnet δ18O. Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union. Xiamen, China. Keynote

• Wang, W.**, Liu, W**, Zhao, P.**, Chu, X. (2024) Mineralization, uplift, weathering, and climate in Mesozoic East Asia: Skarns beyond decarbonation. Goldschmidt Conference. Chicago, IL. Keynote

• Chu, X., Akça, O.†, 2023. Rapid emplacement of garnet leucogranite in the Ramba Dome, Tibet. GSA 2023. Pittsburgh

• Chen, J.**, Chu, X., 2022, Slow Fe-Mg-Mn interdiffusion in dolomite-ankerite revealed by high-pressure experiments. AGU Meeting. Chicago, IL.

• Fan, X†, Sio, C.K.I., Chu, X., Jiang, H.#, 2022. Matrix effect for Li isotope analyses using NS-LA-Q-ICP-MS. GSA Meeting. Denver, CO. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-381189

• Fan, X†, Chu, X., Sio, C.K.I., Jiang, H.#, 2022. Interface-coupled dissolution-reprecipitation textures with major element zonation preserved in Grenvillian garnet. GSA Meeting. Denver, CO. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-381160.

• Chen, J.*, Chu, X., 2022. DIFFUSEUP: A graphical user interface (GUI) software for diffusion modeling. GSA Meeting. Denver, CO. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-378369

• Wu, G.-H.**, Chu, X., Tang, M., Li W., Chen, F., 2022. Distinct tectono-magmatism on Rodinia and Gondwana margins. GSA Meeting. Denver, CO. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-379722

• Zhou, Z.*, Chu, X., 2022. Phase relations in metacarbonate rocks with applications to natural mineral assemblages in contact metamorphism. GSA Meeting. Denver, CO. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-379680

• Chen, J.*, Chu, X., Tang, M., Hao, J., 2021. Venus' light crust hinders its planetary-scale subduction. Goldschmidt Conference. On-line.

• Akca, O.†, Chu, X., Gennaro, I.†, 2020. Thermal pulse induced by emplacement of Ramba Leucogranites in Southern Tibet. GSA Meeting. On-line.

• Brudner, A.†, Chu, X., Tang, M., 2020. Crustal thickness evolution of the Grenville Orogen. GSA Meeting. On-line.

• Fan, X. §, Chu, X., Zou, Y.*, 2020. Rapid metamorphism recorded by Grenvillian retrograde eclogite. GSA Meeting. On-line.

• Villarin, J.§, Chu, X., Zou, Y.*, 2020. Metamorphic P-T condition of a mafic meta-intrusion in Huntsville, Ontario. GSA Meeting. On-line.

• Gennaro, I. †, Chu, X., Weber, J.C., Vitale Brovarone, A., Arkle, J., 2020. Constraints on the Exhumation of the Northern Range, Trinidad Through RSCM Geothermometry. AAPG Virtual Research Symposium: Southeast Caribbean & Guiana Basins. On-line.

• Gennaro, I. †, Weber, J.C., Vitale Brovarone, A., Chu, X., 2019. Thermal structure and exhumation history of the Northern Range, Trinidad: new constraints from RSCM thermometry. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA.

• Chu, X., Vitale Brovarone, A., Zhang, L., 2019. Pseudotachylyte recording coseismic fracturing during UHP slab exhumation, Western Tianshan. GSA Meeting, Phoenix AZ.