Ph.D., University of Göttingen (2001.1)

M.S., Uni. of Science and Technology of China (1991.7)

B. E., University of Central South China (1983.7)

Research Interests

1.  Isotope trace of fluid/rock interaction during high- and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism.

2.  Elemental and isotopic fractionation in subduction processes.

3.  Micro-domain geochemical investigations on mineral grain scales.

Selected Publications

Papers in peer-reviewed journals ( *supervised student as first author, Xiao as correspond author):

Tong FT, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2021) Lithium isotopic features of Quaternary basaltic saprolite, Zhanjiang, China: Atmospheric input and clay-mineral adsorption. Science of the Total Environment, 785:147235.

Lu YG, Xiao YL*, Nadean O et al. (2021) Inherited source affinity of Li and Hf isotopes for porphyry copper deposits from subduction and collisional settings.Ore Geology Reviews, 138:104328.

Wang YY, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2021) Lithium isotope composition of the Carboniferous seawater: Implications for initiating and maintaining the late Paleozoic ice age. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 222:104977.

Kazemi K, Modabberi S, Xiao YL* et al. (2021) Geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry, Sr-Nd isotopes, and biotite chemistry of the Deh-Bala intrusive rocks, Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (Iran): Implications for magmatic processes and copper mineralization. Lithos, 408-409: 106544.

Liu HY, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2020) Trace Elements and Li Isotope Compositions Across the Kamchatka Arc: Constraints on Slab-Derived Fluid Sources. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 125: e2019JB019237

Wang XX, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2020) Initiation of the North China Craton destruction: Constraints from the diamond-bearing alkaline basalts from Lan'gan, China. Gondwana Research, 80:228-243.

Tan DB, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2020) Lithium isotopic compositions of post-collisional mafic-ultramafic rocks from Dabieshan, China: Implications for recycling of deeply subducted continental crust. Lithos, 352:105327.

Wan HQ, Xiao YL*, Sun H et al. (2020) The lithium isotopic composition and geochemical implication of ultrahigh-pressure marbles from the Dabie-Sulu orogen, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 195:104376.

Liu HY, Sun H, Xiao YL*, Wang YY, Zeng LS , Li WY, Guo HH , Yu HM, Pack A (2019)Lithium isotope systematics of the Sumdo Eclogite, Tibet: Tracing fluid/rock interaction of subducted low-T altered oceanic crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 246:385-405.

Liu HY, Xiao YL*, van den Kerkhof A, Wang YY, Zeng LS, Guo HH (2019) Metamorphism and fluid evolution of the Sumdo eclogite, Tibet: Constraints from mineral chemistry, fluid inclusions and oxygen isotopes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 172:292-307.

Liu HY, Wang K, Sun WD, Xiao YL, Xue YY (2019) Extremely light K in subducted low -T altered oceanic crust: Implications for K recycling in subduction zone.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 277:206-223.

Tian Y, Xiao YL*, Chen YX et al. (2019) Serpentinite-derived low δ7Li fluids in continental subduction zones: Constraints from the fluid metasomatic rocks (whiteschist) from the Dora-Maira Massif,Western Alps. Lithos, 348-349:105177.

Kazemi K, Kananian A, Xiao YL, Sarjoughian F (2019) Petrogenesis of Middle-Eocene granitoids and their Mafic microgranular enclaves in central Urmia-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (Iran): Evidence for interaction between felsic and mafic magmas. Geoscience Froniers, 10:705-723.

Sun H, Xiao YL*, Gao YJ, Zhang, GJ, Casey JF, Shen YA (2018) Rapid enhancement of chemical weathering recorded by extremely light seawater lithium isotopes at the Permian-Triassic boundary. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA), 115:3782-3787.

Wang YY, Xiao YL* (2018) Fluid-controlled element transport and mineralization in subduction zones. Solid Earth Sciences, 3:87-104.

Li WY, Teng FZ, Xiao YL (2018) Magnesium isotope record of fluid metasomatism along the slab-mantle interface in subduction zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Aata, 237:312-319.

Kazemi K, Kananian A, Xiao YL, Sarjoughian F (2018) Chemical composition of rock-forming minerals and crystallization physicochemical conditions of the Middle Eocene I-type Haji Abad pluton, SW Buin-Zahra, Iran. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11:717.

Wang YY, Kerkhof AM, Xiao YL*, Yang XY, Lai JQ, Wang YG (2017) Geochemistry and fluid inclusions of scheelite-mineralized granodiorite porphyries from southern Anhui Province, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 89:988-1005.

Guo HH, Xiao YL*, Xu LJ, Sun H, Huang J, Hou ZH (2017) Origin of allanite in gneiss and granite in the Dabie orogenic belt,Central East China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 135:243-256.

Wan HQ, Sun H, Liu HY, Xiao YL* (2017) Lithium Isotopic Geochemistry in Subduction Zones: Retrospects and Prospects. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 91:688-710.

Li DY, Xiao YL*, Li WY, Zhu XK Williams HM, Li YL (2016) Iron isotopic systematics of UHP eclogites respond to oxidizing fluid during exhumation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34:987-997.

Sun H, Gao YJ, Xiao YL*, Gu HO, Casey JF (2016) Lithium isotope fractionation during incongruent melting: Constraints from post-collisional leucogranite and residual enclaves from Bengbu Uplift, China. Chemical Geology, 439:71-82.

Huang J, Xiao YL (2016) Mg-Sr isotopes of low-Mg²⁶ basalts tracing recycled carbonate species: Implication for the initial melting depth of the carbonated mantle in Eastern China. International Geology Review, 58:1350-1362.

Huang J. Liu SA, Gao YJ, Xiao YL, Chen S (2016) Copper and zinc isotope systematics of altered oceanic crust at IODP Site 1256 in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121:7086-7100.

Li WY, Teng FZ, Xiao YL, Gu HO, Zha XP, Huang J (2016) Empirical calibration of the clinopyroxene-garnet magnesium isotope geothermometer and implications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 171-61.

Eyuboglu Y, Dudas FO Santosh M, Xiao YL, Yi KW, Chatterjee N, Wu FY, Bekt O (2016) Where are the remnants of a Jurassic ocean in the eastern Mediterranean region. Gondwana Research, 33:63-91.

Huang J, Liu SO, Woerner G, Yu HM, Xiao YL (2016) Copper isotope behavior during extreme magma differentiation and degassing: a case study on Laacher See phonolite tephra (East Eifel, Germany). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 171-76.

He ZW, Huang F, Yu HM, Xiao YL, Wang FY , Li QL, Xia Y, Zhang XC (2016) Flux-Free Fusion Technique for Rapid Determination of Major and Trace Elements in Silicate Rocks by LA-ICP-MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 40:5-27.

Xiao YL, Sun H, Gu HO, Huang J et al. (2015) Fluids/melts in continental deep subduction zones: Compositions and related geochemical fractionations. Sci in China (Series D) (In press).

Albrecht Nina, Xiao YL*, van den Kerkhof AM, Albrecht M, Horn Ingo, Wörner G (2015) Evolution of metamorphic fluids during deep continental subduction recorded by fluid inclusions in UHP eclogite-hosted veins (Dabie Shan, China). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (In Press)

Herwartz D, Pack A, Xiao YL, Muehlenbachs K, Sengupta S, Di R (2015) Revealing the climate of snowball Earth from Δ¹⁷O systematics of hydrothermal rocks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 112:5337-5341.

Huang J, Li SG, Xiao YL,* Pack A (2015) Origin of low δ 26Mg Cenozoic basalts from South China Block and their geodynamic implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 164:298-317.

Wu F, Xiao YL*, Xu LJ, Santosh M, Li SG, Huang J, Hou ZH, Huang F（2015） Geochronology and geochemistry of felsic xenoliths in lamprophyre dykes from the southeastern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for the interleaving of Dabie-Sulu orogenic crust.International Geology Review, 57:1305-1325.

Huang J, Xiao YL* (2015) Element mobility in mafic and felsic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the South Dabie orogen, China: Insights into supercritical fluids in continental subduction zones. International Geology Review57:1103-1129.

Wang YY, Xiao YL*, Yang XY (2015) Re-Os isotope systematics and fluid inclusions of Xinqiao deposit in Tongling, the Middle-Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt. Acta Pertrol Sinica, 31:1031-1039.

He ZW, Huang F, Yu HM, Xiao YL*, Wang HY, Li QL（2015）A Flux-Free Fusion Technique for Rapid Determination of Majorand Trace Elements in Silicate Rocks by LA-ICP-MS. Geostands and Geoanalytical Research (online).

Liu L, Xiao YL*, Aulbach S, Li DY, Hou ZH（2014）Vanadium and niobium behavior inrutile as a function of oxygen fugacity: Evidence from natural samples. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology，167,1026:1-22.

Liu L, Xiao YL,* Wörner G, Kronz A, Simon K (2014) Detrital rutile geochemistry and thermometry from the Dabie orogen: Implications for source–sediment links in a UHPM terrane. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 89:123-140.

Li WY, Teng FZ, Wing Boswell A, Xiao YL (2014) Limited magnesium isotope fractionation during metamorphic dehydration in metapelites from the Onawa contact aureole, Maine. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 15:408-415.

Sun H, Xiao YL*, Gao Y, Lai J, Hou Z and Wang Y (2013) Fluid and melt inclusions in the Mesozoic Fangcheng basalt from North China Craton: implications for magmaevolution and fluid/melt-peridotite reaction. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165:885-901.

Gu HO, Xiao YL*, Santosh M, Li WY, Yang XY, Pack Andereas and Hou ZH (2013) Spatial and temporal distribution of Mesozoic adakitic rocks along the Tan-Lu fault, Eastern China: Constraints on the initiation of lithospheric thinning. Lithos, 177:352-365.

Xu LJ, Xiao YL*, Wu F, Li SG, Simon K, Wörner G (2013) Anatomy of garnets in a Jurassic granite from the south-eastern margin of the North China Craton: Magma sources and tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,78:198-221.

Huang J and Xiao YL* (2013) Fluid-rock Interaction and Mass Transport during Continental Collision in the Daie-Sulu Orogenic belt. Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition) 87:470-472.

Huang J, Xiao YL*, Gao Y, Hou Z and Wu W (2012). Nb-Ta fractionation induced by fluid rock interaction in subduction-zones: Constraints from UHP eclogite- andvein-hosted rutile from the Dabie orogen, Central-Eastern China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology30:821-842.

Xiao YL, Hoefs J, Hou Z, Simon K and Zhang Z (2011). Fluid/rock interaction and masstransfer in continental subduction zones: Constraints from trace elements and isotopes(Li, B, O, Sr, Nd, Pb) in UHP rocks from the Chinese Continental Scientific DrillingProgram, Sulu, East China. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology162:797-819.

Xiao YL, Huang J, Liu L, and Li DY (2011) Rutile: An important reservoir for geochemical information. Acta Petrologica Sinica27:398-416.

Li WY, Teng FZ, Xiao YL and Huang J (2011). High-temperature inter-mineralmagnesium isotope fractionation in eclogite from the Dabie orogen, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters304:224-230.

Schmidt A, Weyer S, Mezger K, Xiao YL, Hoefs J, Brey GP (2008) Rapid eclogitisation of the Dabie-Sulu UHP terrane: Constraints from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 273:203-213.

Yang XY, Zheng YF, Xiao YL et al (2007) ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the Shaxi Porphyry Cu-Au deposit in the southern Tan-Lu fault zone, Anhui Province. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 81:477-487.   

Xiao Yilin, Sun Weidong, Hoefs Jochen, Simon Klaus, Zhang Zeming, Li Shuguang and Hofmann Albrecht A (2006) Making continental crust through slab melting: constraints from Niobium – Tantalum fractionation in UHP metamorphic rocks. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,70:4770－4782.

Xiao Yilin, Zhang Zeming, Hoefs Jochen and Kerkhof van den (2006) Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project – II. Oxygen isotope and fluid inclusion distributions through vertical sections. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 152:443-458.

Zhang Zeming, Xiao Yilin, Hoefs Jochen, Liou JG and Simon Klaus (2006), UHP metamorphic rocks from the Chinese Continental Drilling Project – I. Petrology and geochemistry of the main hole (0-2050m). Contrib Mineral Petrol, 152:421-441.

Zhang, Zeming, Shen, Kun, Xiao, Yilin, Hoefs, Jochen, Liou, J. G. (2006) Mineral and fluid inclusions in zircon of UHP metamorphic rocks from the CCSD-main drill hole: A record of metamorphism and fluid activity. Lithos, 92:378-398.

Xiao Yilin, Hoefs Jochen and Kronz Andreas (2005) Compositionally zoned Cl-rich amphiboles from North Dabie Shan, China: Monitor of high-pressure metamorphic fluid/rock interaction processes. Lithos, 81:279-295.

Romer Rolf and Xiao Yilin (2005), Initial Pb-Nd-Sr isotopic heterogeneity in a single allanite-epidote crystal: implications of reaction history for the dating of minerals with low parent-to-daughter ratios. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,148:662-674.

Zhang Zeming, Xiao Yilin, Liu Fulai, Liou JG and Hoefs Jochen (2005), Petrogenesis of UHP metamorphic rocks from Qinglongshan, southern Sulu, east-central China. Lithos, 81:189-207.

Zhang Zeming, Xiao Yilin, Hoefs Jochen, Liou JG and Xu Zhiqin (2005) Petrology of the UHP Metamorphic Rocks from the Pre-Pilot Hole of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project. International Geology Review, 47:1160-1177.

Zhang ZM, Xiao YL, Shen K, et al (2005) Garnet growth compositional zonation and metamorphic P-T path of the ultrahigh-pressure eclogites from the Sulu orogenic belt, eastern Central China. Acta Petrol Sinica, 21:809-818.

Yan J, Munnecke A, Steuber T, Carlson EH and Xiao YL (2005) Marine sepiolite in middle permian carbonates of South  China: implications forSecular variation of phanerozoic seawater chemistry. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75:328–338.

Zhang Zeming, Shen Kun, Xiao Yilin, Kerkhof van den Alfons, Hoefs Jochen and Liou JG (2005), Fluid composition and evolution attending UHP metamorphism: study of fluid inclusions from drill cores, Southern Sulu belt,Eastern China. International Geology Review, 47:297-309.

Zhang ZM, Rumble D, Liou JG, Xiao YL and Gao YJ (2005) Oxygen isotope geochemistry of rocks from the pre-pilot hole of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project (CCSD-PPH1) .American Mineralogist , 90:857-863.

Shen K, Zhang ZM, van den Kerkhof AM, Xiao YL, Xu ZQ, Hoefs J (2003) Unusual high-density and saline aqueous inclusions in ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks from Sulu terrane in eastern China. Chinese Sci Bull,48: 2018-2023.

Xiao Yilin, Hoefs Jochen, van den Kerkhof Alfons M., Simon Klaus, Fiebig Jens and Zheng Yongfei (2002) Fluid History during HP and UHP Metamorphism in Dabie Shan,  China: Constraints from Mineral Chemistry, Fluid Inclusions, and Stable Isotopes. Journal of Petrology, 43:1505-1527.

Wiechert U, Fiebig J, Przybilla R, Xiao Yilin and Hoefs J (2002), Excimer laser isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry for in situ oxygen isotope analysis. Chemical Geology, 182:179-194.

Xiao Yilin, Hoefs Jochen, Kerkhof Alffons M. van den and Li Shuguang (2001), Geochemical constrains of the eclogite and granulite facies metamorphism as recognized in the Raobazhai complex from North Dabie Shan, China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19:3-19.

Xiao Yilin (2001) Fluid Histories During HP and UHP Metamorphism in Dabie Shan, China: Constraints from Trace Elements, Fluid Inclusions, and Stable Isotopes. University of Göttingen, (http//webdoc.sub.gwdg.de).

Xiao Yilin,Hoefs Jochen, Kerkhof Alfons M. van den, Fiebig Jens and Zheng Yongfei (2000), Fluid history of UHP metamorphism in the Dabie Shan, China: a fluid inclusion and oxygen isotope study on the coesite-bearing eclogite from Bixiling. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 139:1-16.