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Name  
 Liang Xiaofeng
Title  
   Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geophysics
Phone  
   010-82998331
Zip Code  
   100029
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   010-62010846
Email  
   liangxf@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
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   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：

Xiaofeng Liang,
Professor of Geophysics,

Education:
09/2002-01/2009 Ph.D., Geophysics, School of Earth and Space Science, Peking University, P. R. China
09/2007-09/2008 Visiting student, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA
09/1998-07/2002 B.S., Applied Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), P. R. China

Working experiences:
12/2024-now      Professor, Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
2/2012-12/2024 Associate Professor, Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
10/2009-2/2012 Post-doctoral Scholar, Geophysics, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri – Columbia, USA

Research Interests：
  1. Digital seismogram analysis, earthquake location, receiver function, shear wave splitting and seismic body wave travel-time tomography based on finite frequency theory
  2. Earth interior structure detection by seismic method and related geodynamic process research
  3. Rheological structure of continental lithosphere related with intermediate depth earthquakes
  4. Rifting process induced by continental-continental collision
  5. Interaction between the mantle plume and continental lithosphere
Public Services：

Honors：

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Publications：

2023

  1. Liu, D., Z. Wang*, G. Fu, X. Liang, Y. Yao, Y. Hu, and J. Li, Crustal density structure and flexure mechanism of the Tarim Basin, China, constrained by latest in situ gravity observations, Terra Nova, 35(2), 83-90, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12632.
  2. Zuo, S., S. Li, Y. Feng, D. Qiu, D. Liu, W. Li, G. Wang, Z. Guo, Z. Ge, C. Zhang, Y. J. Chen, G. Wang, G. Guo, Z. Wu, P. Ren and X. Liang*. A Temporary Broadband Seismic Array in the Largest Desert of China: TASTE. Seismological Research Letters 94(1), 281–293, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220056.
  3. Tan, P.*, X. Liang, W. Li, and C. Wu, Crustal structure of the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas revealed from ambient noise tomography, Gondwana Res., 121, 1-15, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2023.03.029.

2022

  1. Guo, Z.*, S. Li, Y. Yu, Y. J. Chen, Y. Yang, B. Xu, and X. Liang, Eastward Asthenospheric Flow From NE Tibet Inferred by Joint Inversion of Teleseismic Body and Surface Waves: Insight Into Widespread Continental Deformation in Eastern China, J. Geophys. Res., 127(8), e2022JB024410, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024410.
  2. Yang, S., X. Liang, M. Jiang*, L. Chen, Y. He*, C. Thet Mon, G. Hou, M. Thant, K. Sein, and B. Wan, Slab remnants beneath the Myanmar terrane evidencing double subduction of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean, Science Advances, 8(34), eabo1027, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo1027.
  3. Wang, H.F., Liang, X.F., Deng, Y.F., The Possible Distribution Range of Crustal Flow in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, Geotectonica et Metallogenia, 2022, 46(06), 1185-1199, 2022. https://doi.org/10.16539/j.ddgzyckx.2022.03.023.

2021

  1. Wu, Z., Chen, L.*, Talebian, M., Wang, X., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Lan, H., Gao, Y., Khatib, M.M., Hou, G., Chung, S.-L., Liang, X., Zhao, L., Naimi-Ghassabian, N., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., 2021. Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126, e2020JB020256, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020256.
  2. Tian, X.*, Bai, Z., Klemperer, S.L., Liang, X., Liu, Z., Wang, X., Yang, X., Wei, Y., Zhu, G., Crustal-scale wedge tectonics at the narrow boundary between the Tibetan Plateau and Ordos block. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 554, 116700, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116700
  3. Xu, Q., Ge, Z.*, Feng., Y., Wang, G., Guo, Z., Liang, X., Upper mantle anisotropy analysis around the southern Tarim basin. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 64(2), 471-483, 2021. https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg2021O0153.
  4. Li, W., Y. Chen*, X. Liang, and Y.-G. Xu , Lateral Seismic Anisotropy Variations Record Interaction Between Tibetan Mantle Flow and Plume-Strengthened Yangtze Craton, J. Geophys. Res., 126(4), e2020JB020841, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020841.
  5. Liu, Z.*, X. Tian, X. Liang, C. Liang, and X. Li, Magmatic Underplating Thickening of the Crust of the Southern Tibetan Plateau Inferred From Receiver Function Analysis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(17), e2021GL093754, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl093754.
  6. Wan, B.*, Y. Chu, L. Chen, X. Liang, Z. Zhang, S. Ao, and M. Talebian, Paleo-Tethys subduction induced slab-drag opening the Neo-Tethys: Evidence from an Iranian segment of Gondwana, Earth Sci. Rev., 221, 103788, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103788.
  7. Xue, S.*, Y. Chen, H. Liang, X. Li, X. Liang, X. Ma, Z. Lu, D. Bai, and Y. Yan , Deep electrical resistivity structure across the Gyaring Co Fault in Central Tibet revealed by magnetotelluric data and its implication, Tectonophysics, 809, 228835, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228835.
  8. Yu, Y.*, Y. J. Chen, Y. Feng, M. An, X. Liang, Z. Guo, W. Qu, S. Li, and S. Dong, Asthenospheric Flow Channel From Northeastern Tibet Imaged by Seismic Tomography Between Ordos Block and Yangtze Craton, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(17), e2021GL093561, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093561.
  9. Zhang, Z. B.*, Liang, X.F., Zhou, B.B., Liu, D.Q., Tang, M.S. (2021), Three dimensional seismic velocity structure of the middle part of north Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang based on seismic relocation and local seismic tomography, Seismology and Geology, 43(5):1292—1310, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.0253-4967.2021.05.015.

2020

  1. Nie, S., Tian, X.*, Liang, X., Chen, Y., Xu, T., Pn uppermost mantle tomography of Central Tibet: Implication for mechanisms of N-S rifts and conjugate faults. Tectonophysics, 788, 228499, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228499
  2. Liang, X.*, Zuo, S., Li, S., Feng, Y., Burial Process of a Seismic Station by Moving Dunes in Tarim Basin. Seismol. Res. L., 91, 2936–2941, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200116
  3. Liu, Z., Tian, X.*, Yuan, X., Liang, X., Chen, Y., Zhu, G., Zhang, H., Li, W., Tan, P., Zuo, S., Wu, C., Nie, S., Wang, G., Yu, G., Zhou, B., 2020. Complex structure of upper mantle beneath the Yadong-Gulu rift in Tibet revealed by S-to-P converted waves. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 531, 115954, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115954
  4. Chen, L.*, Wang, X., Liang, X., Wan, B., Liu, L., Subduction tectonics vs. Plume tectonics—Discussion on driving forces for plate motion. Science China Earth Sciences 63, 315-328, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9538-2
  5. Chen, Y., Liang, X., Yan, H., Jiang, M., Ai, Y.*, Seismicity of the northern section of the Tanlu fault zone in the Bohai Bay and its implications. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. (in Chinese), 63(7): 2566-2578, 2020. https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg2020N0159.


2019

  1. Wan, B.*, Wu., F., Chen, L., Zhao, L., Liang, X., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., Cyclical one-way continental rift-drift in the Tethyan evolution: subduction-driven plate tectonics, Science China Earth Sciences, 62, 2005–2016, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9393-4
  2. Wu, C., Tian, X.*, Xu, T.*, Liang, X., Chen, Y., Zhu, G., Badal, J., Bai, Z., Yu, G., Teng, J., Upper crustal anisotropy of the conjugate strike-slip faults zone in central Tibet disaggregated using local earthquakes and shear wave splitting. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(5), 1968–1984, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180333.
  3. Zhou, B., Liang, X.*, Lin, G., Tian, X., Zhu, G., Mechie, J., Teng, J. , Upper crustal weak zone in central Tibet: An implication from three‐dimensional seismic velocity and attenuation tomography results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016653, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016653.
  4. Wu, C., Tian, X.*, Xu, T.*, Liang, X., Chen, Y., Taylor, M., Badal, J., Bai, Z., Duan, Y., Yu, G., Teng, J., Deformation of crust and upper mantle in central Tibet caused by the northward subduction and slab tearing of the Indian lithosphere: New evidence based on shear wave splitting measurements. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 514, 75-83, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.02.037, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.02.037.
  5. Teng, J., Yang, D.*, Tian, X., Xu, T., Chen, Y., Bai, Z., Liang, X., Zhang, X., Wu, J., Liu, Y., Geophysical investigation progresses of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in the past 70 years (in Chinese). Scientia Sinica Terrae, 49: 1546–1564, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1360/SSTe-2019-0132.

2017

  1. Liu, Z., Tian, X.*, Chen, Y., Xu, T., Bai, Z., Liang, X., Iqbal, J., Xu, Y., Unusually thickened crust beneath the Emeishan large igneous province detected by virtual deep seismic sounding. Tectonophysics, 721, 387-394, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.009, 2017.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.009
  2. Wei, X., Jiang, M. *, Liang, X., Chen, L., Ai, Y., Limited southward underthrusting of the Asian lithosphere and material extrusion beneath the northeastern margin of Tibet, inferred from teleseismic Rayleigh wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122, 7172–7189, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013832, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013832
  3. Chen, Y. *, Wang, Z., Guo, X., Deng, Y., Xu, T., Liang, X., Tian, X., Wu, J., Chen, L., Zhang, X., Tang, G., Xu, Y., Geophysical signature of the ancient mantle plume activities: a case study of the Emeishan large igneous province, Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, 36(3), doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-2802.2017.03.003, 2017.(In Chinese)
    https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1007-2802.2017.03.003
  4. Duan, Y., Tian, X. *, Liang, X., Li, W., Wu, C., Zhou, B., Iqbal, J., Subduction of the Indian slab into the mantle transition zone revealed by receiver functions. Tectonophysics, 702, 61-69, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.025, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.025
  5. Zhu, G., Liang, X., Tian, X. *, Yang, H., Wu, C., Duan, Y., Li, W., Zhou, B., Analysis of the seismicity in central Tibet based on the SANDWICH network and its tectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 702, 1-7, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.020, 2017.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.020

2016

  1. Liang, X. *, Tian, X., Zhu, G., Wu, C., Duan, Y., Li, W., Zhou, B., Zhang, M., Yu, G., Nie, S., Wang, G., Wang, M., Wu, Z., Liu, Z., Guo, X., Zhou, X., Wei, Z., Xu, T., Zhang, X., Bai, Z., Chen, Y., Teng, J., SANDWICH: A 2D Broadband Seismic Array in Central Tibet, Seismological Research Letters, 87, 864-873, doi: 10.1785/0220150243, 2016.
    https://doi.org/10.1785/0220150243
  2. Liang, X. *, Y. Chen, X. Tian, Y.J. Chen, J. Ni, A. Gallegos, S.L. Klemperer, M. Wang, T. Xu, C. Sun, S. Si, H. Lan, J. Teng, 3D imaging of subducting and fragmenting Indian continental lithosphere beneath southern and central Tibet using body-wave finite-frequency tomography, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 443, 162-175, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.029, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.029
  3. Deng, Y. *, Y. Chen, P. Wang, K.S. Essa, T. Xu, X. Liang, J. Badal, Magmatic underplating beneath the Emeishan large igneous province (South China) revealed by the COMGRA-ELIP experiment, Tectonophysics, 672–673, 16-23, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.039, 2016.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.039
  4. Feng, Y., Y. Yu, Y. Chen, X. Liang, P. Wang, Upper mantle anisotropy analysis around the western Altyn Tagh fault, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 59(5), 1629-1636, doi:10.6038/cjg20160508, 2016. https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg20160508

2015

  1. Tian, X. *, Y. Chen, T.-L. Tseng, S.L. Klemperer, H. Thybo, Z. Liu, T. Xu, X. Liang, Z. Bai, X. Zhang, S. Si, C. Sun, H. Lan, E. Wang, J. Teng, Weakly coupled lithospheric extension in southern Tibet, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 430, 171-177, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.025, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.025
  2. Chen, Y. *, Y. Xu, T. Xu, S. Si, X. Liang, X. Tian, Y. Deng, L. Chen, P. Wang, Y. Xu, H. Lan, F. Xiao, W. Li, X. Zhang, X. Yuan, J. Badal, J. Teng, Magmatic underplating and crustal growth in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China, revealed by a passive seismic experiment, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 432, 103-114, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.048, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.048
  3. Tang, Y., S. Zhou, Y. J. Chen*, E. Sandvol, X. Liang, Y. Feng, G. Jin, M. Jiang, and M. Liu, Crustal structures across the western Weihe Graben, North China: Implications for extrusion tectonics at the northeast margin of Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(B7), 5070-5081, doi: 10.1002/2014JB011210, 2015.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011210
  4. Liu, Z., X. Tian*, G. Zhu, X. Liang, Y. Duan, H. Zhang, J. Teng, Probing the Moho interface using SsPmp waves, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 58(10), 3571-3582, doi:10.6038/cjg20151012, 2015. https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg20151012
    Wang, M., Y. Chen*, X. Liang, Y. Xu, Y. Fan, T. Xu, Z. Zhang, and J. Teng, Surface wave tomography for South China and the northern South China Sea area. Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 58(6), 1963-1975, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150612, 2015.     https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg20150612
  5. Liu, Z., X. Tian*, X. Liang, J. Teng, Upper mantle structure beneath central Tibet derived from teleseismic S wave tomography along the INDEPTH Ⅲ profile, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 58(4), 1169-1178, doi:10.6038/cjg20150407, 2015.
    https://doi.org/10.6038/cjg20150407

2014

  1. Liang, X. *, E. Sandvol, S. Kay, B. Heit, X. Yuan, P. Mulcahy, C. Chen, L. Brown, D. Comte, P. Alvarado, Delamination of southern Puna lithosphere revealed by body wave attenuation tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(1), 549–566, doi:10.1002/2013JB010309, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010309
  2. Nunn, C. *, S.W. Roecker, K.F. Priestley, X. Liang, A. Gilligan, Joint inversion of surface waves and teleseismic body waves across the Tibetan collision zone: the fate of subducted Indian lithosphere. Geophysical Journal International, 198, 1526-1542, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu193, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu193
  3. Wang, P.*, Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., Han, Y., Wang, M., Liang, X., Teng, J., Polygonal grid modeling of 2-D complex geological model and calculation of gravity anomaly on Matlab platform, Journal of Guilin University of Technology, 34(2),254－259, doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-9057.2014.02.006, 2014. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1674-9057.2014.02.006

2013

  1. Chen, L. *, T. V. Gerya, Z. Zhang, A. Aitken, Z. Li, X. Liang，Formation mechanism of steep convergent continental margins: Insights from numerical modeling, Geophysical Research Letters, 40(10), 2000–2005, doi: 10.1029/2013GL055693, 2013.
    https://doi.org/10.1029/2013GL055693
  2. Lü, Y.*, Z. Zhang, S. Pei, E. Sandvol, T. Xu, X. Liang, 2.5-Dimensional Tomography of Uppermost Mantle beneath Sichuan–Yunnan and Surrounding Regions, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.03.008, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.03.008

2012

  1. Liang, X., E. Sandvol, Y.J. Chen*, T. Hearn, J. Ni , S. Klemperer, Y. Shen and F. Tilmann, A complex Tibetan upper mantle: A fragmented Indian slab and no south-verging subduction of Eurasian lithosphere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 333-334, 101-111, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.036, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.036
  2. Yue, H., Y.J. Chen*, E. Sandvol, J. Ni, T. Hearn, S. Zhou, Z. Ge, Y. Feng, Y. Wang, Y. Tang, X. Liang, M. Jiang, S. Wei, G. Jin, H. Wang, W. Fan and Z. Liu, Lithosphere and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B5), B05307, doi:10.1029/2011JB008545, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008545

2011

  1. Jiang, M.M., S. Zhou*, E. Sandvol, X. Chen, X. Liang, Y.J. Chen and W. Fan, 3-D lithospheric structure beneath southern Tibet from Rayleigh-wave tomography with a 2-D seismic array, Geophysical Journal International, 185, 593-608, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04979.x, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04979.x
  2. Liang, X., Y. Shen, Y.J. Chen*, Y. Ren, Crustal and mantle velocity models of southern Tibet from finite frequency tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116, B02408, doi:10.1029/2009JB007159, , 2011. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB007159

2004-2009

  1. Nabelek, J. *, Hetenyi, G., Vergne, J., Sapkota, S., Kafle, B., Jiang, M., Su, H.P., Chen, J., Huang, B.S., the Hi-CLIMB Team. Underplating in the Himalaya-Tibet Collision Zone Revealed by the Hi-CLIMB Experiment. Science, 325, 1371-1374, 10.1126/science.1167719, 2009. (Project Hi-CLIMB Team: L. Mitchell, D. Sherstad, M. Arsenault, J. Baur, S. Carpenter, M.
  2. Donnahue, D. Myers, T.-L. Tseng, T. Bardell, N. VanHoudnos, M. Pandey, G. Chitrakar, S. Rajaure, G. Xue, Y. Wang, S. Zhou, X. Liang, G. Ye, C.-C. Liu, J. Lin, C.-L. Wu, N. Barstow). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167719
  3. Jiang, M., S. Zhou, X Tong, X. Liang, Y. Chen, Accurate depth determination of deep earthquake in southern Tibet and its geodynamic implication, Chinese J. Geophys. (In Chinese), 52(9), 2237-2244, doi:10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2009.09.001, 2009. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2009.09.001
  4. Liang, X., S. Zhou , Y.J. Chen*, G. Jin, L. Xiao, P. Liu, Y. Fu, Y. Tang, X. Lou, J. Ning, Local earthquake distribution in southern Tibet and its tectonic implication, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 113, B12409, doi:10.1029/2007JB005101, 2008.
    https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JB005101
  5. Fu, Y. Y., Y. J. Chen*, A. Li, S. Zhou, X. Liang, G. Ye, G. Jin, M. Jiang, and J. Ning , Indian mantle corner flow at southern Tibet revealed by shear wave splitting measurements, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L02308, doi:10.1029/2007GL031753, 2008.
    https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031753
  6. Zhao, Y.* and Liang, X., Testing study on crack development in limestone plate, Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, 23(10),1608-1615, 2004.
    https://doi.org/10.3321/j.issn:1000-6915.2004.10.004
 
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