Xiumian Hu
Associate Professor
Sedimentologist

Contact:
Nanjing University
Department of Earth Sciences
Nanjing 210093
China

huxm@nju.edu.cn

Education

• B.Sc., Chengdu Institute of Technology, 1996, Geosciences
• M.Sc., Chengdu University of Technology, 1999, Geology
• Ph.D., Chengdu University of Technology, 2002, Geology

Research Interests

• Major geological events and their sedimentary response;
• Oceanic red beds and black shales through geological time;
• Mesozoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoceanography, palaeoclimatology, and source rocks on the Tibet Plateau and Himalayas;
• Geological evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet;
• Tehtys Ocean evolution.