SUBJECTS CONCERNED:
Sedimentary geology, paleoceanography, paleoclimate

CURRENT INTERESTS: 
Mesozoic sedimentary geology in Tibet and western Sichuan; 
Cretaceous paleoceanography in Tibet (E Neo-Tethys);
Stable isotope geochemistry for paleoclimate and paleoceanography;
Mesozoic paleoclimate in continental China.

GEOSCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

024-2027, Late Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event (OAE 2) records in southern margin of ancient Asia. Fund by NSFC (42372123, supervisor)

2023.12-2028.11, Program "Causes and Mechanism of Oceanic Anoxic Events" of the project "Oceanic Anoxic Events and Environmental Evolution in the deep-time Earth". Fund by National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFF0804000, supervisor).

2022-2025, High-resolution land carbon cycles and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration of the mid-Cretaceous. Fund by NSFC (42172106, supervisor)

019-2022, Paleoseamounts preserved within the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone. Fund by NSFC (41872104, supervisor)

2017-2020, Perturbation of atmospheric CO2 concentration to the Jurassic climate in West China. Fund by NSFC (41672097, supervisor) .

2014-2017, Climatic changes and atmospheric CO2 concentration estimate of the Cretaceous-Paleogene from South China. Fund by NSFC (（41372106, supervisor)  .

2011-2016, “Paleoclimate reconstruction in the Late Mesozoic in NE Asia” (2012CB822003) of the program “Climate-Environmental Evolution of the Greenhouse Globe duing the Late Mesozoic”, National Basic Research Program of China (973), 2012CB822003. Focus on paleogeography reconstruction.

2011-2013, Provenance analysis of the flysch Upper Triassic in Shannan area, Tibet Fund by NSFC (40772074, supervisor).  

2008-2010, Paleoceanography of cold-water carbonate mound in Porcupine Seabight, North Atlantic. Fund by NSFC (40772074, supervisor).  

2007, Carbon and oxygen isotopes of cold-water carbonate mound in Porcupine Seabight, North Atlantic. Fund by NSFC (40643017, supervisor).  

2006-2010 Project “Paleoclimate reconstruction during some key Cretaceous stages in the main continental China” (2006CB701401, supervisor) of the program “Major Geological Events in the Earth Surface System during the Cretaceous and Greenhouse Climate Changes”, National Basic Research Program of China (973).  

2007-2009, Reconstruction of Tibetan Tethys paleogeography. Fund by Sinopec (supervisor) .  

2006－2007, Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Triassic in Songpan-Gerze, Sichuan. Fund by Sinopec (second supervisor).  

2004-2007, Oceanic red beds in Late Cretaceous in Tethys Himalaya: Responses of paleoceanography changes. Fund by key NSFC (40332020, the second supervisor).  

2005-2006, Coupling between petroleum geology and sedimentary basin-orogen-plateau by the well Hongcan 1#. Fund by Sinopec.  

2005-2006, Profile of petroleum geology investigation in Gilung-Saga, southern Tibet. Fund by China Bureau of Geology Survey.  

2003-2005, High-resolution carbon and oxygen stable isotopes of Late Cretaceous in southern Tibet (supervisor). Fund by NSFC.  

2003-2005, The “Xiukang Group” in Lhaze-Rhenbuk, Tibet: Significances to the evolution of Tethys Ocean. Fund by NSFC.  

2002-2005, Late Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds and Geosystems in Tethys: Oxic Event. Premium research on important basic projects fund by China Ministry of Science and Technology.  

2002-2006, Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds: Response to ocean/climate global change (IGCP 463).  

2001-2004. Marine correlation and hydrocarbon potential analysis in the oil-bearing Tethys. Fund by Open Lab in Guangzhou Geochemistry Institute (supervisor).  

2000-2002. Sedimentology of the Langjiexue Group in Shannan area, Tibet. Fund by Tibet Survey (supervisor).   

2000-2002, Paleozoic mapping of marine strata by tectonic – lithofacies paleogeography under sequence stratigraphy, funded by SINOPEC.  

1997-2000, Mesozoic paleoceanography and hydrocarbon-formed environment Tibetan Tethys Himalayas, Outstanding Youth Grant (Premier Foundation) funded by National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC).  

1998-1999, Geological event of marine Paleocene-Eocene boundary in southern Tibet (supervisor), funded by Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Science Academy of China.  

996-1998, Stratigraphic classification and correlation in Coqen and Biru basins, central Tibet (supervisor), funded by SINOPEC.  

1997, Oil-gas geological Mapping using remote-sense techniques in Shuanghu area, northern Tibet, funded by SINOPEC.  

995-1997, Marine Devonian to Triassic sequence stratigraphy and Target of oil-gas exploration in southern China, funded by SINOPEC.  

1995-1997, Key sedimentary basin types during the uplift of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, funded by Ministry of Land and Resources of China.  

1994-1996, Devonian sequence stratigraphy and sea-level changes in Mt. Longmen area, western Sichuan, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China.  

1994-1996, Indus-Yarlung Zangbo suture and Himalaya Mountain Geology, special foundation by the 30th International Geology Congress committee.  

Papers as first and second author

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Sun MinJia, Fan Xiaolong, Wang Jingyu. The Paleocene syncollisional deposits in Renbu, southern Tibet, China: New insights into the foredeep wedge evolution of the Himalayan foreland. Journal of Palaeogeography, 2025, 14(3): 100263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2025.100263.

Wang Jingyu, Li Xianghui, Rasbury Troy, Zheng Chenyu, Zhang Chaokai. Late Cretaceous eolianites in South China: Implications for paleowind systems and paleoclimates. Sedimentology, 2025, 72(3): 962–992. doi: 10.1111/sed.13260 (Correspondence).

Li Xianghui, Wang Jingyu, Zheng Chenyu, Zhang Chaokai. Late Cretaceous eolian sandstones in southern Hunan Province: Indicative of paleo-environment and climate. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2025, 99(7): 2189-2202. https://doi.org/10.19762/j.cnki.dizhixuebao.2024027 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Felix Schlagintweit, Xianghui Li. Burrows filled with Coprulus oblongus Mayer, 1952 from the Aptian Langshan Formation of central Xizang (Tibet): microfacies, ichnotaxonomy and possible intraformational stratigraphic relevance. Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen (N. Jb. Geol. Paläaeont. Abh.). 2025,  313(/2), 179–188. doi: 10.1127/njgpa/2024/1228.

Schlagintweit Felix and Li Xianghui. Enhanced juvenile mortality of orbitolinids (larger benthic foraminifera) in the late early Aptian of the Langshan Formation, Tibet: a possible link to OAE1a? Lethaia, 2024, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.18261/let.57.4.1.

Zhou Min, Li Xianghui, Wang Jingyu. Sedimentary Environments and Paleoclimate of the Middle–Upper Jurassic in the Northeastern Sichuan Basin. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2024, 42(3): 1003-1015. https://doi.org/10.14027/j.issn.1000⁃0550.2022.079 (Chinese with English abstract) Correspondence).

Fan Xiaolong, Li Xianghui, Mattern F, Li Xin, Wei Zhen, Zheng Chenyu. Paleoseamounts in Yarlung Zangbo suture zone revealing dynamic processes of the Early Cretaceous Neo-Tethys lithosphere. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37671.1. (Correspondence).

Wang Jingyu, Li Xianghui Li, Wan Yin, Zhou Yong, Zheng Chenyu. Long-term variations in terrestrial carbon cycles and atmospheric CO₂ levels: Exploring impacts on global ecosystem and climate in the aftermath of end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112177 (Correspondence).

Zheng Chengyu, Wang Jingyu, Li Xianghui, Zhang Chaokai. Intermontane erg environment and arid climate indicated from associated eolian and alluvial fan facies during the Late Cretaceous, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 2024, 264, 106044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2024.106044. (Correspondence)

Wang Jingyu, Li Xianghui Li, White Lloyd T, Li Yongxiang, Zhou Juanjuan, Wei Shoucai, Wei Zhen, Zhou Min, Fan Xiaolong Fan. Early dextral shear motion during the breakup of East Gondwana documented in clastic dykes in the Tethys Himalaya. Tectonophysics, 2023, online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230132 (Correspondence)

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Sun Minjia, Fan Xiaolong, Wang Jingyu, Zhou Juanjuan, Wei Shoucai. Metamorphosed mélange in eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India-Asia collision in Eocene. Journal of the Geological Society. 2023, 181, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-067.

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Sun Minjia, Guo Ruiqing, Liu Guiping, Xu Zheting, Cheng Yuanfeng. Discriminating chert origins using machine-learning approaches. Geological Journal, 2023, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4753.

Fan Xiaolong, Li Xianghui Li, Mattern Frank, Wei Zhen, Zheng Chenyu, Wang Jingyu, Zhou Min. Lithofacies, geochemistry, and sequences of basalt and carbonate rocks of a Middle Permian composite seamount (central Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone, Tibet): Implications to the incipient opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Lithos, 2023, 448−449, 107175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107175 (Correspondence).

Wang Jingyu, Li Xianghui, Li Liqin, Wang Yongdong. Cretaceous climate variations indicated by palynoflora and vegetation in South China. Palaeoworld, 2022, 31, 507−520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2021.11.001 (Correspondence).

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Laskowski A.K., Reynolds A.N., Fan Xiaolong. Cretaceous forearc basin remnant sediments in the eastern Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, near the eastern Himalaya syntaxis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology. Palaeoecology, 2021, 580: 110620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110620(Correspondence).

Li Xianghui and Mattern Frank. Comparing the Upper Triassic Deep Sea Flysch of the Shannan Terrane with the Coeval Shallow Shelf Sediments of the Tethys Himalaya, Southern Tibet. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2021, 95(2): 348–354. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.14659

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Sinclair Hugh, Fan Xiaolong, Wang Jingyu, Zhang Chaokai, and Gongjue Jiebu. The embryonic Himalayan foreland basin revealed in the eastern Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, southeastern Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105743

Wei Zhen, Li Xianghui, Li Yongxiang, Fan Xiaolong, Wang Jingyu, Zhang Chaokai, and Gongjue Jiebu. Discovery of vestige sedimentary archives of the India‐Asia collision in the eastern Yarlung Zangbo suture zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2020, 125(4), e2019JB018192. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018192.

Li Xianghui, Wang Jingyu, Rasbury Troy, Zhou Min, Wei Zhen, Zhang Chaokai. Early Jurassic climate and atmospheric CO₂ concentration in the Sichuan paleobasin, Southwest China. Climate of the Past, 2020, 16, 2055–2074. doi: 10.5194/cp-16-2055-2020.

Li Xianghui, Zhang Chaokai, Li Yongxiang, Wang Yin, Liu Ling. Refined chronostratigraphy of the late Mesozoic terrestrial strata in South China and its tectono-stratigraphic implications. Gondwana Research, 2019, 66: 143-167. 

Li Xianghui, Zhang Chaokai, Wang Yin, Liu Ling. Geochronology and relationships of the late Mesozoic terrestrial lithostratigraphic units in South China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2018, 92(6): 1107-1130 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wei Yushuai, Chen Xi, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin. Stratigraphy and lithofacies of the Triassic Qiongguo Group in southwestern Tibet. Journal of Stratigraphy, 2017, 41(1): 17-31 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Liu Shugen, Ran Bo, Xu Wenli, Zhou Yong. Chronology of the volcanic rock intercalations within the flysch of the Songpan-Ganzi folded belt and its geological significance. Geological Bulletin of China, 2016, 35(6): 879-886 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Li Xianghui, Mattern F., Zhang Chaokai, Zeng Qinggao, Mao Guozheng. Multiple sources of the Upper Triassic flysch in eastern Himalaya orogen, Tibet, China: Implications to paleogeography and paleotectonic evolution. Tectonophysics, 2016, 666: 12-22. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.10.005

Li Xianghui. Comment on the Mid-latitude terrestrial climate of East Asia linked to global climate in the Late Cretaceous. Geology, 2016, 44, e374. doi: 10.1130/G37054C.1.

Li Xianghui, Wei Yushuai, Li Yongxiang, Zhang Chaokai, Carbon isotope records of the early Albian oceanic anoxic event (OAE) 1b from eastern Tethys (southern Tibet, China). Cretaceous Research, 2015, 62: 109-121. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.015.

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin, Wei Yushuai，Chen Xi, 2014. Definition and Composition of the Zhongba Microterrane in Southwest Tibet. Acta Geologica Sinica, 88(8): 1372-1381 (in Chinese with English abstract)  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Li Yalin, Wei Yushuai，Chen Xi, 2014. Disaggregation of the Permian Quga Formation in Zhongba area, SW Tibet. Geological Bulletin of China, 33(5): 614-629 (in Chinese with English abstract)  

Li Xianghui, Jenkyns H, Zhang Chaokai, Wang Yin, Liu Ling, Cao Kao, 2014. Carbon-isotope signatures of pedogenic carbonates from SE China: Rapid atmospheric pCO2 changes in the mid–late Early Cretaceous. Geological Magazine, 151 (5): 830–849. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000897.  

Li Xianghui, Xu Wenli, Liu Weihong, Zhou Yong, Wang Yin, Sun Yong, Liu Ling, 2013. Climatic and environmental indications of carbon and oxygen isotopes from the Lower Cretaceous calcrete and lacustrine carbonates in Southeast and Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 385: 171-189. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031.  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Liu Shugen, Ran Bo, Xu Wenli, Zhou Yong, 2012. Lithofacies of the upper Middle Triassic Guanggaishan Formation in both sides of the Bailongjiang Uplift, Southwestern Qingling Orogenic Belt: Implications to the Basin Analysis. Earth Science—Journal of China University of Geosciences, 37(4): 679-692. Doi:10.3799/dqkx.2012.077.   

Li Xianghui, Kano Akihiro, Chen Yunhua, Takashima Chiduru, Xu Wenli, Xu Baoliang, 2012. Wang Ruijian, and IODP Leg 307 Scientists. Quaternary primary productivity in Porcupine Seabight, NE North Atlantic. Sci China Earth Sci, 55: 1–6. doi: 10.1007/s11430-011-4357-0.  

Li Xianghui, Chen Sidun, Luo Jiahong, Wan Yin, Cao Ke, and Liu Ling, 2011. Single zircon U-Pb isotope chronology of the Early Cretaceous Jiande Group from western Zhejiang, SE China: Significances to stratigraphy. Geological Review, 57(6): 825-836 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Yin, Xu Wenli, Sun Yong, Kong Qingyou, Zeng Qinggao, Xie Yaowu, Mao Guozheng, Nima Ciren, Zhou Yong, Liu Ling, 2011. Contrasting the Upper Triassic Flysch Langjuexue Group and Nieru Formation in Southern Tibet. Acta Geologica Sinica, 85(10): 1551-1562 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Takashima C, Kano A, Sakai S, Chen Yunhua, Xu Baoliang, IODP Exp. 307 Scientists, 2011. Pleistocene geochemical stratigraphy of the borehole 1317E (IODP Exp. 307) in Porcupine Seabight, SW off Ireland: Applications to palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate of the coral mound development. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(2): 178-189. DOI:10.1002/jqs.1441  

Li Xianghui, Chen Sidun, Cao Ke, Chen Yunhua, Xu Baoliang, Ji Yannan, 2009. Paleosols of the mid-Cretaceous: A report from Zhejiang and Fujian, SE China. Earth Science Frontiers, 16(5): 63-70 (in both Chinese and English).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Jin Wei, Ran Bo, 2009. A review on deep-sea sedimentation theory: Significances to oil-gas exploration. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 27(1): 77-86 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Xu Baoliang, Chen Yunhua, Cao Ke, Yang Hainan, 2008. Clay Minerals of the Middle-Late Mesozoic Mudrocks from North and Northeast China: Implications to Paleoclimate and Paleohighland. Acta Geologica Sinica, 82(5): 683-691 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, 2008. Mixing of siliciclastic-carbonate sediments within systems tracts of depositional sequences and its controlling factors. Geological Journal of China Universities, 14(3): 395-404 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Cheng Yunhua, Kano A, Takashima C, 2007. IODP 307 scientists. A review of Cenozoic deep sea cold-water carbonate mounds and Prileminary results of cabon and oxygen isotopes from IODP 307. Advances in Earth Science, 22(7): 8-14 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Jenkyns H C, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, Zhao Bing, Huang Yongjian, 2007. Carbon isotope excursion of Late Cretaceous Campanian in southern Xizang and its implication. Geochemica, 36(3): 279-285 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Jansa Luba, and Hu Xiumian, 2006. Age of Initiation of the India-Asia Collision in the East-Central Himalaya: A Discussion. The Journal of Geology, 114: 637–640.  

Li Xianghui, Jenkyns H C, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, Chen Xi, Wei Yushuai, Huang Yongjian, Cui Jie, 2006. Upper Cretaceous carbon- and oxygen-isotope stratigraphy of hemipelagic carbonate facies from southern Tibet, China. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162(2): 37-382.  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, 2005. Reinterpretation of the Jurassic across Himalaya ridges north to Nyalam, Tibet. Geological Bulletin of China, 24(12): 30-35 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, 2005. Stratigraphy of deep-water Cretaceous deposits in Gyangze, southern Tibet, China. Cretaceous Research, 26(1): 33-41.  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan. Cui Jie, 2005. Deviation Analysis of Comparable experiments of bulk Carbon- and Oxygen- Isotope Values of the Upper Cretaceous Limestones from Gamba, Tibet, China. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, 24(3): 190-194 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Hugh C. Jenkyns, Cheng Xinrong, Cui Jie, Hu Xiumian, 2005. Bulk Carbon Isotope Excursions of the Cenomanian through Turonian of Mid-Cretaceous in Southern Tibet. Earth Science—Journal of China University of Geoscience, 30(3): 317-217 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Cui Jie, 2005. Applications of high-resolution carbon- and oxygen- isotopes: Results from Cenomanian-Turonian in Gamba, Tibet. Earth Science Frontiers, 12(2): 171-177 (in Chinese with English abstract).
 Li Xianghui, Zeng Qinggao, Wu Ge, Mao Guozheng, Wang Baodi. 2005. Lower Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy of northern Coqen basin, Central Tibet, China. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science & Technology Edition), 32(2): 111-119 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Zeng Qinggao, Wang Chengshan, 2004. Provenance Analysis of the Upper Triassic Langjiexue Group in the Southern Tibet, China. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 22(4): 553-559 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Hu Xiumian, Huang Yongjian, Wang Chengshan, Chen Xi, Wei Yushuai, 2004. Paleoclimatic evolution: A review of Cretaceous paleoceanography. Advances in Earth Sciences, 19(Suppl.): 83-92 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Zeng Qinggao, Wang Chengshan, 2003. Palaeocurrent data: evidences for source of the Langjuexue Group in southern Tibet. Geology Review, vol. 49, no. 2: 132-137 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Zeng Qinggao, Wang Chengshan, 2003. Sedimentary characteristics of the Upper Triassic Langjiexue Group south to Qiongjie, Tibet. Modern Geology, vol. 17, no.1: 52-58 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wu Ruizhong, Wang Chengshan, 2002. Recognition and Correlation of Supersequences in Lhasa Block, southern Tibet. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 20, no. 2: 179-187 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Bao Xiangnong, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, Wan Xiaoqiao, Fan Shanfa, 2002, Sedimentary responses to the global event of transitional Paleocene - Eocene in Tingri, southern Tibet. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, Vol. 22, no.1: 69~74 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Wu Ge, Yi Haisheng, Li Dengzhong, Shi He, Ma Runze, Wang Hongfeng, 2002. Lower Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy of the northern Cuoqen Basin, central Tibet. Petroleum and Gas Geology, accepted (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wu Ge, Wang Chengshan, Yi Haisheng, Liu Dengzhong, Shi He, Ma Runze, Wang Hongfeng, 2001. Paleozoic to Mesozoic changes of lithofacies and paleogeography of the Cuoqen Basin, central Tibet. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology, v. 28, no.4: 331-339, (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, 2001, Latest Marine Non-carbonate Sediment in Tibet: Significance to Closure of the Neo-Tethys Sea, Acta Geologica Sinica, v. 75, no. 3: 314-321 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Yi Haisheng, Li Yong, 2001, Middle Cretaceous and Eocene lithofacies and paleogeography in Tibet, Regional Geology of China, v. 20, no. 1: 82-89 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, Wan Xiaoqiao, Xu Yulin, Zhao Wenjin. 2000, The Pengqu Formation: a new Eocene stratigraphical unit in Tingri area, Tibet, Journal of Stratigraphy, v. 24, no. 3, p. 244-248 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, 2000, Sediments of sandy debris-flow in deep-sea environment: Verification from massive sandstone of the Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous in Tibetan Tethys Himalayas, Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 20, no. 1, p. 45-51 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui & Bao Xiangnong, 2000, Responses of sedimentary basin to sea-level changes, Advance in Earth Science, v. 15, no. 1, p. 71-75 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Chen Hongde, Tian Jingchun, 1999, Patterns and fills of Permian sequence stratigraphy in South China. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 17, no. 4, p. 510-511 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Huang Zhicheng, Chen Hongde, Qiu Dongzhou, 1999, Sediments on boundary surfaces of the type-I depositional sequences in the Permian of South China, Geological Journal of China University, v. 5, no. 4, p. 459-466 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Wan Xiaoqiao, Tao Ran, 1999, Verification of stratigraphical sequence and classification of the Chuangde cross-section of Gyangze, southern Tibet, Journal of Stratigraphy, v. 23, no. 3, p. 303-309 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, and Zeng Yunfu, 1999, Sequence stratigraphy and patterns of mixed carbonate and siliciclastic sediments in the shelf Lower – Middle Devonian in the western margin of the Yangtze Craton, Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 17, no. 3: 339-344 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui & Zhang Jie, 1999, A review of sea-level and its changes, Sedimentary Facies and Palaeogeography, v. 19, no. 4, p. 61-72+41 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Liu Wenjun, and Zheng Rongcai, 1998, Hierarchies and patterns of depositional cycles and lithofacies sequence in the Devonian in the Longmen Mt., western Yangtze Platform, Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 18, n. 2, p. 115-120 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Liu Wenjun, and Zheng Rongcai, 1998, Frequency, amplitude, and pattern of sea-level changes in the Devonian in the Longmen Mt., western Yangtze, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology, v. 25, n. 4, p. 495-502 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Zeng Yunfu, and Liu Zhifei, 1997, Depositional sequences and incised valley in the Naxing Formation of the Early Carboniferous in Yalai, Nyalam, southern Tibet, Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 15, n. 1, p. 1-6 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Liu Wenjun, and Zheng Rongcai, 1997, Hybrid facies and Mechanism to the formation of mixed carbonate and siliciclastic sediments in the Devonian in the Longmen Mt. area, Sichuan, Sedimentary Facies and Palaeogeography, v. 17, n. 3, p. 1-10 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, 1997, Determination of depositional position of sedimentary strata in orogenic belt in paleogeography and basin analysis, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology, v. 24, n. 4, p. 51-60 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, Liu Wenjun, and Zheng Rongcai, 1996, Lithofacies and depositional sequences of mixed carbonate - siliciclastic sediments in the Early-Middle Devonian in the front Longmen Mt. zone, western Sichuan, in Liu Wenjun et al., Depositional Sequences in Devonian in Longmen Mt., Chengdu: Press of Chengdu University of Science and Technology, p. 46-61 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui and Wang Chengshan, 1996, Characteristics and significance of the fills in the incised valleys of Naxing Formation near northern Nyalam, Tibet, Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, v. 15, n. 1, p. 28-31 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui and Wang Chengshan, 1996, Sedimentary Megacycles in Tibet Tethys Himalayas”. In: He Zhenhua ed., Proceedings in Geoscience: For the 40th Anniversary of CDIT and the 30th IGC, Chengdu: Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology, p. 154-159 (in English).  

Li Xianghui and Wang Chengshan, 1996, Supersequences and sedimentary evolution of the Phanerozoic in Tethys Himalayas, Documents of the 30th IGC, Beijing: Geological Publishing House, Abstract, 2 of 3, p. 157 (in English).  

Li Xianghui and Chen Yuanren, 1993, Community classification in the Emsian stage of Devonian from Longmen Mt., Sichuan province, Journal of Chengdu College of Geology, v. 20, n. 2, 48-56 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Li Xianghui, 1992, Paleoenvironments of eight benthic communities in the Emsian stage of Lower Devonian from the Longmen Mt., Sichuan province, Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 12, n. 3, p. 57-65 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Liu Ruicen, Li Xianghui, Hu Xiumian. Late Cretaceous oxygen isotope of paleoprecipitation in Chaling Basin, Hunan Province. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2018,36(6):1169-1176 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Zhang Chaokai, Li Xianghui , Mattern F., Zeng Qinggao, Mao Guozheng. S Composition and sediment dispersal pattern of the Upper Triassic flysch in the eastern Himalayas, China: significance to provenance and basin analysis. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch), 2017, 106(4): 1257-1276. DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1333-0.  

Zhang Chaokai, Li Xianghui, Mattern F. , Mao Guozheng, Zeng Qinggao, and Xu Wenli. Deposystem architectures and lithofacies of a submarine fan-dominated deep sea succession in an orogen: A case study from the Upper Triassic Langjiexue Group of southern Tibet). Journal of Asian Earth Science, 2015, online. Doi:org/10. 1016/j. jseaes. 2015. 07. 013.  

Zhang Chaokai, Li Xianghui, Wang Yin, Sun Yong, 2014. Lithological dispersals of the Upper Triassic flysch Langjiexue Group in Shannan region, southern Tibet: Implications to provenance and environment. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 32 (1)：9-16 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Sun Yong, Li Xianghui, Zhou Yong, 2012. Lithofacies and Its Significances of Lower Cretaceous Nanxin Formation in Yunlong County, Westen Yunnan Province. Geology and Mineral Resources of South China, 28(2): 141-148 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Luo K, Li X H, W C S, Li Y L, Ge Y K, Zhang B S, Li L, 2012. The discovery of Early Paleozoic nautiloid fossils in Zhongba area of Tibet an it significance. Geological Bulletin of China, 31(4): 36-39 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, Liu Zhifei, Jansa Luba, Li Yalin, Dai Jingen, and Wei Yushuai, 2012. Revision of the Cretaceous–Paleogene stratigraphic framework, facies 6 architecture and provenance of the Xigaze forearc basin along the 7 Yarlung Zangbo suture zone. Gondwana Research, 21(2): 415-433. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2011.09.014.  

Wang Yin, Li Xianghui, Liu Ling, 2012. On Methods amd Technologies for Reconstruction of Paleoatmospheric CO2 concentration. Geological Science and Technology Information, 31(2):90-99 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Liu Ling, Li Xianghui, Zhou Yong, Cao Ke, Wanf Yin, 2012.The Early-Mid Cretaceous changes of clay mineral composition from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, SE China: Indications to paleoclimate changes. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 30(1): 120-127 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Zhou Yong, Li Xianghui, Sun Yong, 2011. Sedimentary Facies and Its Paleoclimate Significance for the Upper Jurassic Penglaizhen Formation in Mingzhu Town, Shehong, Sichuan. Journal of Geology in Sichuan, 31(2): 142-144 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Xu Wenli, Li Xianghui, Wang Yin, Zeng Qinggao, Sun Yong, Nima Ciren, 2011. Provenance Analysis of the Upper Triassic Flysch in Renbu Area, Southern Tibet. Geological Journal of China Universities, 17(2): 220-230 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Svábenická Lilian, Li Xianghui, Jansa Lubomír F, and Wei Yushuai, 2010. Nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Shadui Formation (Northern Tethyan Himalayas, Southern Tibet). Geologica Carpathica, 61(5): 383-391. doi: 10.2478/v10096-010-0023-2.  

Cao Ke, Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Wang Licheng, Wang Pingkang, 2010 Clay minerals of the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous in the Guangyuan area, northern Sichuan: Implications to paleoclimate. Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 30(1): 41-46 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Zeng Qinggao, Li Xianghui, Xu Wenli, Nima Ciren, Cui Yongquan, Li Jun, 2009. Heavy minerals and provenance analysis of the Upper Triassic in Rembu area, southern Tibet. Geological Bulletin of China, 28(1): 38-44 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Xu Wenli, Li Xianghui, Shu Jun, 2009. Material Sources of the Upper Triassic Langjiexue Group in Rinbung, Tibet. Acta Geologica Sichuanica. 29(1): 8-10 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Cao Ke, Li Xianghui, WangChengshan, 2008. The Cretaceous Clay Minerals and Paleocl imate in Sichuan Basin. Acta Geologica Sinica, 82(1): 115-1231 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Zeng Xuan, Li Xianghui, Wang Chengshan, Robert S, 2006. Procedure forming a correlation database of marine strata: An example from global Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science & Technology Edition), 33(2): 149-155 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Chen Yuanren, Li Xianghui, 2005. Paleocommunity Replacements of Benthic Brachiopod in the Middle-Upper Devonian in Longmenshan Area, Southwestern China: Responses to Sea Level Fluctuations. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA. 79(3): 313- 324 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui., Hu Xiumian, 2003. Initial collision of India with Asia: Review and constrains from sediments of southern Tibet, Acta Geologica Sinica, vol. 77, no. 2: 16-24. (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, Hu Xiumian, Jansa L F, 2002. Latest marine-horizon north of the Qomolangma (Everest): Implications for closure of Tethys sea-way and collision tectonics. Terra Nova, vol. 14, issue 2, 114-120 (in English).
 Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, Wan Xiaoqiao, and Tao Ran, 2000, The Cretaceous in Gyangze, southern Xizang (Tibet): Redefined, Acta Geologica Sinica, v. 74, n. 2, p. 97-107 (Chinese with English abstract).  

Wang Chengshan and Li Xianghui, 1997, Supersequences of the Phanerozoic in the Tethys Himalayas. In: Liu Baojun and Li Sitian eds.: Basin Analysis, Global Sedimentary Geology and Sedimentology, Utrecht, Netherlands, VSP, Proc. 30th Int'l. Geol. Congr., v. 8, p. 275-293 (in English).  

Chen Yuanren and Li Xianghui, 1994, On original locality of type specimens of Athyrisina squamosa Hayasaka, Acta Palaeotologica, v. 33, n. 5, p. 647-650 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Papers as third author

Ran Bo, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui. New knowledge of the Bouma sequences. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 2010, 30(1): 40-43.  

Takashima C, Kano A., and Li XH. Data report: carbon and oxygen isotopes of bulk sediments from the off-mound site, Hole U1318B. In Ferdelman, T.G., Kano, A., Williams, T., Henriet, J.-P., and the Expedition 307 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 307: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), p. 1-8. doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.307.202.2009.  

Shi He, Huang Sijing, Li Xianghui, Luo Wei, Chang Xiaolin, 2008. Chronostratigraphic division and remarks of the Upper Cretaceous from Gongza of Dingri , Tibet , China. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science & Technology Edition). 35(2): 181-186.  

Hu Xiumian, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, Luba J. Lithology, environment, and colourness of the Upper Cretaceous oceanic red-bed in southern Tibet. China Science (Series D, Earth Sciences)，2006，36（9）：811-821.  

Chen Xi, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, 2005. Characteristics and correlation of Upper Cretaceous oceanic red beds in Alps Carpathian area. Earth Science Frontiers, 2005, 12(2): 61-68.  

Mao Guozheng, Zeng Qinggao, Li Xianghui, 2002. Calcareous nannofossils of Late Cretaceous in Yamdrock Tso. Tibet Geology, 21(2): 7-8.  

Hu Xiumian, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, 2001. Stable carbon isotope response to Oceanic Anoxic Events. Advances in Natural Sciences, 11: 721-728.  

Hu Xiumian, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, 2001. Carbonate carbon isotope changes of marine Cretaceous in southern Tibet and paleoceanography dissolved oxygen events. Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science & Technology Edition), 28(1): 1-6.  

Liu Zhifei, Wang Chengshan, and Li Xianghui, 2000, Sedimentary – tectonic evolution of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet. Journal of Tongji University (Nature Science), 28(5): 537-541 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Hu Xiumian, Wang Chengshan, Li Xianghui, Fan Shanfa, Peng Ping-an, 2001, Cenomanian -Turonian anoxic event in southern Tibet: A study of organic geochemistry. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, 20(4): 289-295.  

Liu Wenjun, Zheng Rongcai, Li Xianghui, 1999, Reconstruction of palaeogeography and palaeotectonics of a Devonian Sedimentary basin in the Longmenshan area, Sichuan. Acta Geologica Sinica, 73(2): 109-119  (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Wang Chengshan, Hu Xiumian, Li Xianghui, 1999, Dissolved oxygen in palaeo-ocean anoxic events and high-oxic problems. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 19(3): 39-47 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Zheng Rongcai, Liu Wenjun, and Li Xianghui, 1997, Depositional systems and cyclic sequences of the Pingyipu Formation in Longmen Mt., Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 15, n. 3, p. 1-7 (in Chinese with English abstract).  

Zheng Rongcai, Liu Wenjun, Li Xianghui, Chen Yuanren, Wang Hongfeng, 1996, The genetic types and their sequence stratigraphic significances of Devonian dolomites in Longmen Mountains. Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 16 (1): 28-37.  

Liu Zhifei, Wang Chengshan, and Li Xianghui, 1996, Stratigraphic Research of the Giabulin Formation, in Xigaze Area, Tibet, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology, v. 23, n. 2, p. 56-63 (in Chinese with English abstract).