1. Xu YG, Lan JB, Yang QJ, Huang XL, Qiu HN, 2008. Eocene break-off of the Neo-Tethyan slab as inferred from intraplate-type basaltic dykes in the Gaoligong belt, eastern Tibet. Chemical Geology 255: 439-453
2. Xu YG, J. Blusztajn, JL Ma, K Suzuki, J-F Liu and S R. Hart, 2008. Late Archean to Early Proterozoic lithospheric mantle beneath a reactivated craton: Sr-Nd-Os isotopes of peridotite xenoliths from Yangyuan and Fansi, western North China. Lithos 102: 25-42
3. Xu YG, L Farmer, Menzies MA, Rudnick RL and Zhou MF, 2008. Continental volcanism and lithospheric evolution. Special volume, Lithos 102: VIII-X、
4. Xu YG, Luo ZY, Huang XL, He B, Xiao L, Xie LW and Shi YR, 2008. Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints on crustal melting associated with the Emeishan mantle plume. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72(13): 3084-3104
5. Xu Y.G. (2007) Diachronous lithospheric thinning of the North China Craton and formation of the Daxin’anling-Taihangshan gravity lineament. Lithos 96: 281-298
6. Xu YG, B He, XL Huang, ZY Luo, L Xiao, JF Xu, Zhu D, WM Fan, YJ Wang. 2007. Testing plume hypothesis in the Emeishan large igneous province. Episodes 30: 32-42
7. Xu Y.G., Ma JL, Feigenson MD, Frey FA and Liu JF (2005) The role of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction in the genesis of Quaternary tholeiitic and alkali basalts from Datong, western North China Craton. Chemical Geology 224: 247-271
8.Xu Y.G., He B, Chung SL, Menzies MA and Frey FA. (2004) The geologic, geochemical and geophysical consequences of plume involvement in the Emeishan flood basalt province Geology 30 (10): 917-920
9.Xu Y.G. S.-L. Chung, J. Ma and L. Shi (2004) Crustal-mantle interaction during the thermo-tectonic reactivation of the North China Craton: SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age, petrology and geochemistry of Mesozoic plutons in western Shandong. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology 147: 750-767
10. Xu Y-G, S.-L. Chung, J. Ma and L. Shi. 2004. Contrasting Cenozoic lithospheric evolution and architecture in western and eastern Sino-Korean Craton: Constraints from geochemistry of basalts and mantle xenoliths. Journal of Geology 112 (5): 593-605
11. Xu Y.G. and Bodinier J.-L., 2004. Contrasting enrichments in high and low temperature xenoliths from Nushan, Eastern China: Results of a single metasomatic event during lithospheric accretion? Journal of Petrology 45: 321-341
12. Xu Y-G, Ma JL, Huang XL, Iizuka Y, Chung S-L, Wang Y-B and Wu X-Y, 2004. Early Cretaceous gabbroic complex from Yinan, Shandong Province: Petrogenesis and mantle domains beneath the North China Craton. International Journal of Earth Sciences 93: 1025-1041
13. Xu Y.G. et al. (2003) “Reactive” harzburgites from Huinan, NE China: products of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction during lithospheric thinning? Geochimica et Cosmochimca Acta 67: 487- 505
14. Xu Y.-G., Huang X.L., Menzies MA and Wang RC. 2003, Highly magnesian olivines and green-core clinopyroxenes in ultrapotassic lavas from western Yunnan, China: evidence for a complex hybrid origin. European Journal of Mineralogy 15: 965-975
15. Xu Y.G. (2002) Evidence for crustal components in mantle source and constraints on recycling mechanism: pyroxenite xenoliths from Hannuoba, North China. Chemical Geology 182: 301-322
16. Xu Y.G., Sun M., Yan W., Liu Y., Huang X. and Chen XM, 2002. Xenolith evidence for polybaric melting and stratification of the upper mantle beneath South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 20(8): 937-954
17. Xu Y.G. (2001) Evidence for crustal components in mantle source and constraints on recycling mechanism: pyroxenite xenoliths from Hannuoba, North China. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 26: 747-757
18. Xu Y.G. et al. (2001) Petrological and geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of the Permo-Triassic Emeishan flood basalts in southwestern China. Lithos 58: 145-168
19. Xu Y.G., Menzies MA, Thirlwall MF and Xie GH, 2001. Exotic lithosphere beneath the Western Yangtze Craton: Petrogenetic links to Tibet using highly magnesian ultrapotassic rocks. Geology 39: 863-866
20. Xu Y.G., 2001 Thermo-tectonic destruction of the Archaean lithospheric keel beneath eastern China: evidence, timing and mechanism. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (A), 26: 747-757