Xiangyang Xie Post-Doctoral Fellow Telephone: (512) 471-0447 FAX: (512) 471-8844 email: xiangyang@ig.utexas.edu   PhD, University of Wyoming, 2007 M.S., Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, 1995 B.S., Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China, 1992

Research Interests
Basin analysis, Tectonics and Sedimentology, and Petroleum Geology.

UTIG Supervisor: Dr. Paul Mann

About Xiangyang
Xiangyang Xie received his PhD from the University of Wyoming in June, 2007. His topic was "Intracontinental Deformation and Sedimentary Response in the Mesozoic southern Ordos Basin, north central China." Xian's current research interests include regional provenance studies of potential reservoir sandstones. He will be working on samples collected by Alejandro Escalona and Xian will also make additional field studies to include Phase I and Phase II areas. He is working with Kitty Milliken from the University of Texas and Kathie Marsaglia from Cal State Northridge.

Publications
Xie Xiangyang, The Fault Sealing Models of Complex Fault-block Oilfield, Recording of the International Symposium on Petroleum Engineering, August, 2002, Shaanxi People Publishing House, China.

Xie Xiangyang, The Rupture and Gas-oil Accumulation in JiYang Depression, Recording of the International Symposium on Petroleum Engineering, August, 2002, Shaanxi People Publishing House, China.

Song Z., Xie Xiangyang, et al., Fine Evaluation of Reservoir-cap Combination Using Gray System , Acta Petrolei Sinica, Vol.23, No.4, July, 2002, P37-41.