General

Min Xu, Male, Ph.D. supervisor, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology

Email:     mxu@scsio.ac.cn

Address:   164 West Xingang Rd, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Gongdong

Zipcode:   510301

Research Areas

Marine geophysics; Evolution process of oceanic lithosphere; Seismic structure of mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones; Active source sesimic; multi-channel seismic; near-bottom magnetic.

Education

2006/09--2012/02   MIT-WHOI Joint Program,   Ph.D.  Marine geophysics

2003/09--2006/06   USTC, M.S. Geophysics

1999/09--2003/06   USTC, B.S. Geophysics

Experience

   
Work Experience

2015/12--present, SCSIO, Senior Scientist

2014/05--2015/10, ION Geophysical, Research Geophysicist

2012/06--2014/05, GeoTomo, Research Geophysicist

2012/02--2012/06, WHOI, Postdoc Investigator



Publications

   
Papers

Xu, M., and M. A. Tivey (2016), Investigation of a marine magnetic polarity reversal boundary in cross section at the northern boundary of the Kane Megamullion, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 23°40′N, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB012928.

Xu, M., J. Pablo Canales, S. M. Carbotte, H. Carton, M. R. Nedimović, and J. C. Mutter (2014), Variations in axial magma lens properties along the East Pacific Rise (9°30′N–10°00′N) from swath 3-D seismic imaging and 1-D waveform inversion, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 2721–2744, doi:10.1002/2013JB010730.
J. P. Canales, H. Carton, S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimovi´c, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, M. Marjanovi´c and K. Newman (2012), Network of off-axis melt bodies at the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/NGEO1377.

Xu, M., J. P. Canales, B. E. Tucholke, and D. L. DuBois (2009), Heterogeneous seismic velocity structure of the upper lithosphere at Kane oceanic core complex, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q10001, doi:10.1029/2009GC002586.

Canales, J. P., B. E. Tucholke, M. Xu, J. A. Collins, and D. L. DuBois (2008), Seismic evidence for large-scale compositional heterogeneity of oceanic core complexes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q08002, doi:10.1029/2008GC002009.

Research Interests

Seismic structure of mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones; Hydrotherma circulation; Seismic inversion.

Students

已指导学生

张茂传  硕士研究生  070704-海洋地质  

赵旭  博士研究生  070704-海洋地质  

王培锋  硕士研究生  070704-海洋地质  

现指导学生

李婷婷  博士研究生  070704-海洋地质  

狄会哲  博士研究生  070704-海洋地质  

谢文鑫  硕士研究生  085700-资源与环境  

林泽晖  博士研究生  070704-海洋地质