PUBLICATIONS

Publications

Accepted or in press

• Wu, G.-H., Chu, X., Tang, M., Li, W., Chen, F., Distinct tectono-magmatism on the margins of Rodinia and Gondwana. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

2023

• Zou, Y., Mitchell, R.N., Chu, X., Brown, M., Jiang, J., Li, Q., Zhao, L., Zhai M.. 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.

• 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 

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, 7647. 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

• 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., 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 (接触变质带中的脱碳作用). Acta Petrologica Sinica (岩石学报), 38(5), 1328-1344. https://doi.org/10.18654/1000-0569/2022.05.04 

• Zhao, P., Chu, X., Williams-Jones, 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., Was the Grenville Plateau a Proteroizoic analog of Tibet? Geology, 50(4): 402-406 https://doi.org/10.1130/G49591.1 

• 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, 104, 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.07.006 

2021

• Zou, Y., Li, Q.-L., Chu, X., Zhai, M.-G., Mitchell, R.N., Zhao, L., Zhou, L.-G., Wang, Y., Liu, B., Older orogens cooled slower: New constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrane, North China Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176, 91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01846-w.

• 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. Regional-scale metasomatism reveals high-permeability channels formation at eclogite-facies conditions during subduction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 22(3), p.e2020GC009520. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009520 

• Tang, M., Chu, X., Hao, J., Shen, B., 2021. Orogenic quiescence in Earth’s middle age. Science. 371(6530), 728-731. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1876

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

2020

• 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. 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 at continental arcs: A coupled model of fluid flux and metamorphic decarbonation. American Journal of Science, 319, 631–657, https://doi.org/10.2475/08.2019.01. 

2018

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Tian, M, Baxter, E.F., Sullivan, N., Chamberlain, C.P., and Douglas III, R., 2018. Testing for rapid pulses of crustal-scale heat transfer by modeling the garnet growth-diffusion profiles in metamorphic "Hot Spots", New Hampshire, USA. Journal of Petrology, 59, 1939–1964. Editor's Choice. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy085 

• 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, 211–229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.01.028 

• Zhang L.-J., Chu X., Zhang L.-F., Fu B., Bader T., Du J.-X., and 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. J Metamorph Geol. 36, 631–651. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12422

• 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, 10.1002/2017GC007269. 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, doi: 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, 145 B, 408-423. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.05.002 (†co-first authors).

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

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

• Chu, X., and 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1130/G33752.1.

• Chu, X., and 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. doi: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. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.04.003.

Conference Presentations (group members as first authors)

• 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., 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., 2021. Calibration of divalent cation diffusivities in garnet and dolomite based on the P-T-t history of the Western Tianshan UHP Metamorphic Belt. AGU Fall Meeting. On line.

• Jiang, H., Chu, X., 2021. Paleogene syn-collisional leucogranite with rutile exsolution in garnet, southern Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting. On line.

• Zhou, Z., Leybourne, M.I., Tang, M., Chu, X., The signatures of fluids involved in marble formation at 63 ma in Gangdese arc, southern Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting. On line. 

• Jiang, H., Chu, X., 2021. Rapid deglaciation in the Paleoproterozoic Huronian glacial event indicated by clastic dikes in Ontario, Canada. GSA Meeting. Portland, OR.

• 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.

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

• Gennaro, I., Chu, X., Weber, J., Vitale Brovarone, A., Arkle, J., 2020. Constraints on the Exhumation of the Northern Range, Trinidad Through RSCM. AAPG Virtual Research Symposium: Recent Studies and Advances in Understanding the Geology of Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. 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.

• Zou, Y., Chu, X., 2019. Transient Mesozoic thermal pulse recorded in Paleoproterozoic Jungsan Complex, Korea. GAC-MAC, Quebec City, QC.

• Chu, X., Lee, C.-T. A., Dasgupta, R., 2017. Numerical analysis of infiltration-driven decarbonation during skarnification. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

• Chu, X., Lee, C.-T. A., Dasgupta, R., 2017. The contribution to exogenic CO2 by skarnification: a numerical estimate. DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Group Workshop. Tempe, AZ.

• Chu, X., 2017. Thermodynamic analysis of immiscible H2O-CO2 saline fluids at high pressures. CGU Meeting, Beijing, China.

• Chu, X., and Ague J.J., Partial melting of graphitic metasediments, implications for CO2 transport by granitic magmas. Second DCO Summer School, Yellowstone National Park.

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Axler, J.A., and Tian, M., 2016. Taconic eclogite from northwest Connecticut: Implications for the timing of subduction polarity reversal. NEGSA Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., 2015. A new statistical analysis of rare earth element diffusion data in garnet. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., Tian, M., Rumble III, D., Chamberlain, C.P., 2015. Testing for rapid pulses of crustal-scale heat transfer by modeling garnet growth-diffusion-resorption profiles in metamorphic “Hot Spots”, New Hampshire, USA. GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

• Chu, X., Ague, J.J., and Tian, M., 2015. Ultra-fast high-pressure metamorphism: A potential petrologic test for deviations from lithostatic pressure. GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

• Chu, X., and Ague, J.J., 2014. A new method for statistical analysis of divalent cation diffusion data in garnet. 2014 Goldschmidt Conference. Sacramento, CA.

• Chu, X., and Ague, J.J., 2013. Retrograded eclogite in the Taconian Orogen, Northwest Connecticut. 10th International Eclogite Conference, Courmayeur, Italy. [Poster]

• Chu, X., and Ague J.J., 2012. Calculated phase equlibria for graphitic metapelite: a theoretical appraisal of internal buffering and graphite precipitation. GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.

• Chu, X., and Zhang, L.. 2010. Construction of a PT path based on metasomatic mineral assemblages from the Western Tianshan HP-UHP metamorphic belt. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. [Poster]

• Chu, X., and Zhang, L., 2009. Petrology of aegirine-augite eclogites from Western Tianshan Orogen, China. 8th International Eclogite Conference, Xining, China.