Research Areas

[1] Sedimentology

[2] Sequence stratigraphy

[3] Reservoir geology

Publications

[1] Benzhong Xian*, Yanxin He, Jianping Liu, Huapeng Niu. Identification of hydrovolcanisms and its significance for hydrocarbon reservoir: A review. Journal of Paleogeography, 2018, 7（4）：1-17.

[2] Wang, Z., Xian, B. *, Ma. L.,Chao, C, Pu, Q., Mapping sediment-dispersal characteristics of Neogene deltas using seismic Geomorphology, Liaodongdong Area, Bohai Bay Basin, China. Energy Sou
rces, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 2018, 2265-2276.

[3] Wang, J., Jiang, Z. *, Xian, B., Chen, J., Wang, X., & Xu, W., et al. A method to define the palaeowind strength from lacustrine parameters. Sedimentology. 2018, 65(2), 461–491 SCI, IF= 3.069
(2016), JCR(Q1) DOI: 10.1111/sed.12388

[4] Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Jianping Liu, Yu Yin, Chuzhi Chao. Classification and sedimentary characteristics of lacustrine hyperpycnal channels: Triassic outcrops in the south Ordos Basin, central China. Sedimentary Geology. 2018，368, 68-82. .SCI, IF= 2.373 (2016), JCR(Q1) DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.01.003

[5] Benzhong Xian*, Jianping Liu, Junhui Wang, Dong Yanlei, Yuzhi Li, Qi Yan, Yali Liu. Using of stratal slicing in delineating delta-turbidite systems in Eocene Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Insights for the evolution of multi-source delta-turbidite systems in a fourth order sequence, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018, 168: 495-506. SCI, IF= 1.873 (2017), JCR(Q1) doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.043.

[6] Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Jianping Liu, Yanlei Dong, Chenglin Gong, Zhiyong Lu. Delta–fed Turbidites in a Lacustrine Rift Basin: The Eocene Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China

[7] Jianping Liu, Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Youliang Ji, Zhiyong Lu, Saijun Liu. Sedimentary architecture of a sub-lacustrine debris fan: Eocene Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, east Ch
ina. Sedimentary Geology, 2017, 362(12): 66-82. SCI, IF= 2.373 (2016), JCR(Q1)

[8] Benzhong Xian *, Jianping Liu, Yanlei Dong, Zhiyong Lu, Yanxin He, Junhui Wang. Classification and facies sequence model of subaqueous debris flows. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA English Edition, 2

[9] Zhang, J., Jiang, Z., Gierlowski-Kordesch, E., Xian, B., Li, Z., & Wang, S., et al. (2017). A double-cycle lake basin formed in extensional to transtensional setting: the paleogene nanpu sa
g, bohai bay basin, china.Sedimentary Geology, 349, 15-32.

[10] Zhang, J., Jiang, Z., Liang, C., Wu, J., Xian, B., & Li, Q. (2016). Lacustrine massive mudrock in the eocene jiyang depression, bohai bay basin, china: nature, origin and significance. Mari
ne & Petroleum Geology, 77, 1042-1055.