Member Since 2019
Xiyuan Bao
Postdoc, UCLA Geology
Professional Experience
UCLA Geology
Postdoc
2024 - Present
University of California Los Angeles
PhD Candidate
2018 - 2024
Education
UCLA Geology
Doctorate
2024
University of California Los Angeles
Masters
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelors
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Honors & Awards
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research
Received 2023
Xiyuan
Bao’s research has advanced our understanding of the dynamics of
mantle plumes in a convection mantle and their surface expression as hot spots.
In his 2022 Science paper, he inferred the relative temperature of
plumes compared to mid-ocean ri...
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Publications
Deep Geophysical Anomalies Beneath the Changbaishan Volcano
Subsurface imaging is key to understanding the origin of intraplate volcanoes. The Changbaishan volcano, located about 2,000 km away from the ...
April 14, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Magmatism of Shatsky Rise controlled by plume-ridge interaction
CRETACEOUS‒PALEOGENE LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE EMPLACEMENT AND OCEAN HISTORY: IMPACTS ON CRUSTAL STRUCTURE, CLIMATE, AND CIRCULATION II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2023
Xubo Zhang, Eric Brown, Jinchang Zhang, Jian Lin, ...
Shatsky Rise is a large oceanic plateau formed at a spreading ridge triple junction, but its origin mechanism is unclear. Voluminous magmatism at Shat...
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Determining Mid-Ocean Ridge Geography from Upper Mantle Temperature
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ON THE INTERPLAY OF SURFACE PROCESSES, LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION, AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: APPLICATION TO OROGENIC PLATEAUS AND OTHER TECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2023
Xiyuan Bao, Tushar Mittal, Carolina R. Lithgow-Ber...
Mid-ocean ridges, being the most evident manifestation of mantle convection and plate tectonics, display a variety of large-scale geophysical and geoc...
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Illuminating Mantle Convection: Unraveling Plume Dynamics over LLSVPs in the Laboratory
EXPLORING COMPLEX MANTLE DYNAMICS WITH OBSERVATIONS, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AND COMPUTER MODELS I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 11 december 2023
Xiyuan Bao, Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Hotspots have geochemical fingerprints distinct from mid-ocean ridges. Approximately half of catalogued hotspots are obviously hotter than the ambient...
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