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Book chapter
1. Huifang Xu, Kuang-Sheng Hong, Meiye Wu, and Seungyeol Lee. “Tectonic hydrogen and tectonic oxygen production through deforming piezoelectric minerals in the presence of water," for inclusion in the GSA volume "In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science," Geological Society of America. May 03, 2022
New minerals
1. Seungyeol Lee and Xiaofeng Guo (2021) Xuite, IMA 2018-135a. CNMNC Newsletter 59, Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 139–143
2. Huifang Xu, Seungyeol Lee, Hongwu Xu, Ryan Jacobs, and Dane Morgan (2017) Valleyite, IMA 2017-026. CNMNC Newsletter No. 38 (August 2017), page 1035. Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1033-1038.
3. Huifang Xu and Seungyeol Lee (2016) Luogufengite, IMA 2016-005. CNMNC Newsletter No. 31 (June 2016), page 695. Mineralogical Magazine, 80.
Published peer-reviewed journal articles
51. Woojoon Kee, Seungyeol Lee* (2025) Enrichment Characteristics of Critical Metals in Deep-Sea Ferromanganese Crusts and Polymetallic Nodules. ournal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers 62(5), 527-557.
50. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu (2025) The role of amorphous silica coating on apatite nanocrystals in the exceptional preservation of
phosphatized embryo- like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. Geology, 53 (11): 899–903.
49. Seungyeol Lee*, Chul Woo Rhee, Gyujae Yoo (2025) Cost-Effective Carbon Dioxide Removal via CaO/Ca(OH)2-Based Mineralization with Concurrent
Recovery of Value-Added Calcite Nanoparticles, 17(19), 8875
48. Seungyeol Lee* (2025) Structure Refinement and Anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters of 1M Illite: A Combined Rietveld and PDF Analysis
using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Scattering Data. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 58, 4
47. Michael T. Thorpe, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Juergen Thieme, Eric Dooryhee, Seungyeol Lee, Roy Christoffersen (2025). High-Resolution Analysis of Clay Minerals and Amorphous Materials in Martian Analog Environments. American Mineralogist, https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2023-9290
46. Juhwan Woo, Won-Ki Kim, ChulWoo Rhee, Seungyeol Lee* (2025) A Review of Hydrogen systems and Exploration Methodologies for Natural Hydrogen Exploration. Journal of The Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers, 62(3), 312-326
45. Younghoon Won, Sungsik Lee, Seungyeol Lee, SoHyun Park, Jun Lim, Wonyong Choi, Giehyeon Lee* (In press) Freeze-induced crystallization: an overlooked pathway for mineral genesis in natural waters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(22), e2421822122.
44. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu, Wenqian Xu (2025) Reexamination of the structure of nanomineral opal-CT using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray scattering structure factor, and pair distribution function analyses. American Mineralogist, 110(5), 721-730.
43. Daeyong Kim, Seungyeol Lee* (2025) Geology and Mineralization Characteristics of Rare Metal (Li, Mo, W, and Nb-Ta) Deposits in Mongolia. Journal of The Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers, 62(2), 138-152.
42. Seungyeol Lee, Sunjin Lee (2025) Geological Characteristics, Ore-forming Processes, and Mineral Resources of Rare Earth Element Deposits in Mongolia. The Korean society of Economic and Environmental Geology, 57(6), 709-720.
41. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2024) Mineralogical and chemical variations in hydrogenetic ferromanganese crust from Magellan Seamounts: Implications for millennial-scale paleoclimatic records, 72, e21, 1-13.
40. Sun Ki Choi, Sang Joon Pak, Jonguk Kim, Sunjin Lee, Seungyeol Lee, Wonnyon Kim, Hwimin Jang, Ryoung Gyun Kim. (2024) Combined effect of magmatic fluid–seawater mixing and host rock alteration on the formation of gold-enriched massive sulfides in the Forecast vent field, southern Mariana Trough. Ore Geology Reviews, 106235.
39. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, and Hongwu Xu. (2024) Reply to Comment on "Reexamination of the structure of opal-A: A combined study of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and pair distribution function analysis, American Mineralogist, 109(2), 397-398.
38. Seungyeol Lee, Jizhe Cai, Shiyun Jin, Hiromi Konishi, Dongzhou Zhang, Amanda S Barnard, Ramathasan Thevamaran, Huifang Xu (2023) Investigation on Shock Metamorphism of Anatase by Supersonic Microprojectile Impact. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7(10), 1905-1915.
37. Yihang Fang, Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, and Gabriela A. Farfan (2023). Organic Controls over Biomineral Ca– Mg Carbonate Compositions and Morphologies. Crystal Growth & Design. 23, 7, 4872-4882
36. Qi Tao, Chaogang Xing, Seungyeol Lee, Long Yang, Qingjin Zeng, Shangying Li, Tianqi Zhang, Guanglie Lv, Hongping He, Sridhar Komarneni. (2023) Local structure determination of Zn-smectite American Mineralogist, 108(7), 1357-1367.
35. Seungyeol Lee, Minji Park, HY Jeong (2022) Investigation of As(III) Sorption by Sand and Alumina under Anoxic Conditions. Journal of the Korean earth science society. 43(4), 532-538
34. Huifang Xu, Shiyun Jin, Seungyeol Lee and Philip E. Brown. (2022) Cation ordering, twinning and pseudo- symmetry: the study of a birefringent garnet with orthorhombic (Fddd) structure. American Mineralogist, 108(3), 572-583.
33. Seungyeol Lee and Xiaofeng Guo. (2022) Xuite, Ca3Fe2[(Al,Fe)O3(OH)]3, a new mineral of the garnet group: Implications for wide occurrence of nano-minerals. American Mineralogist, 107. 930-935.
32. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, and Hongwu Xu. (2022) Reexamination of the structure of opal-A: A combined study of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and pair distribution function analysis, American Mineralogist, 107(7), 1353-1360.
31. Shiyun Jin, Huifang Xu and Seungyeol Lee. (2021) Revisiting the BÃggild Intergrowth in Iridescent Labradorite Feldspars: Ordering, Kinetics, and Phase Equilibria, Minerals, 11(7), 727.
30. Bingjie Shi, Christina M. Smeaton, Eric E. Roden, Seungyeol Lee, Kai Liu, Huifang Xu, Brian Kendall, Clark M. Johnson, Chris T. Parsons, Philippe Van, Cappellen. (2021) Consecutive Fe redox cycles decrease bioreducible Fe(III) and Fe isotope fractionations by eliminating small clay particles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 308, 118-135.
29. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu and Joerg C. Neuefeind. (2021) Crystal structure of moganite and its anisotropic atomic displacement parameters determined by synchrotron X-ray diffraction and X-ray/neutron pair distribution function analyses. Minerals, 11,3,272.
28. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Jenelle Wempner, Hongwu Xu, and Jianguo Wen. (2021) Discovery of Gold Nanoparticles in Marcellus Shale. ACS earth and space chemistry, 5 (1),129-135.
27. Seungyeol Lee, Jizhe Cai, Shiyun Jin, Dongzho Zhang, Ramathasan Thevamaran, and Huifang Xu. (2020) Coesite Formation at Low Pressure during Supersonic Microprojectile Impact of Opal, ACS earth and space chemistry, 4(8), 1291-1297.
26. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu. Using complementary methods of synchrotron radiation powder diffraction and pair distribution function to refine crystal structures with high quality parameters—A Review (2020) Minerals, 10 (2), 124.
25. Stephanie A. Napieralski, Heather L. Buss, Susan L. Brantley, Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu and Eric E. Roden. Microbial chemolithotrophy mediates oxidative weathering of granitic bedrock, (2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (52), 26394-26401.
24. Huifang Xu, Shiyun Jin, Seungyeol Lee, Franklin Hobbs (2019) Nano-Phase KNa(Si6Al2)O16 in Adularia: A New Member in the Alkali Feldspar Series with Ordered K–Na Distribution, Minerals, 9(11), 649.
23. Larry L Barton, Alex S Granat, Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Nathaniel L. Ritz, Robert Hider, Henry C. Lin (2019) Bismuth(III) interactions with Desulfovibrio desulfuricans: Inhibition of cell energetics and nanocrystal formation of Bi2S3 and Bi0, Biometals, 32(5), 803-811.
22. Tina Hill, Hiromi Konishi, Franklin Hobbs, Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2019). HRTEM study of α-cristobalite and Na-Al silicate glass in UHP clinopyroxene from a Bohemian Massif garnet pyroxenite. American Mineralogist, 104(10), 1402-1415.
21. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu, Ryan Jacobs and Dane Morgan. (2019) Valleyite: a new magnetic mineral in basaltic rocks. American Mineralogist, 104(9), 1238-1245.
20. Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Wenqian Xu and Xiaming Sun (2019). The structure and crystal chemistry of vernadite in ferromanganese crusts. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, 75(4), 591-598.
19. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2019) Using powder XRD and pair distribution function to determine anisotropic atomic displacement parameters of orthorhombic tridymite and tetragonal cristobalite. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, 75(2), 160-167.
18. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2019) One-Step Route Synthesis of Siliceous Six-Line Ferrihydrite: Implication for the Formation of Natural Ferrihydrite. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3.4, 503-509.
17. Peng Yang, Seungyeol Lee, Jeffery E. Post, Huifang Xu, Qian Wang, Wenqian Xu, Mengqiang Zhu (2018). Trivalent manganese on vacancies triggers rapid transformation of layered to tunneled manganese oxides (TMOs): Implications for occurrence of TMOs in low-temperature environment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 240, 173-190.
16. Shiyun Jin, Huifang Xu, Seungyeol Lee, and Pingqiu Fu (2018). Jinshajiangite: structure, twinning and pseudosymmetry. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, 74(4), 325-336.
15. Seungyeol Lee, and Huifang Xu. (2018) The crystal structure and Gibbs free energy of formation of chukanovite as an oxidation product of carbon steel in human liver. Chemical Geology, 488, 180-188.
14. Gordon Medaris, Jr., Steven G. Driese, Gary E. Stinchcomb, John H. Fournelle, Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Lindsay DiPietro, Phillip Gopon, and Esther K. Stewart (2018) Mass Fluxes of Chemical Weathering in Sub– Cambrian Paleosols in North America: Implications for Climatic Conditions During Formation of the Great Unconformity, The Journal of geology, 126(3), 261-283.
13. Seungyeol Lee, and Huifang Xu (2018) The Role of ε-Fe2O3 Nano-Mineral and Domains in Enhancing Magnetic Coercivity: Implications for the Natural Remanent Magnetization. Minerals, 8(3), 97.
12. Elizabeth J. Tomaszewski, Seungyeol Lee, Jared Rudolph, Huifang Xu, Matthew Ginder-Vogel (2017) The reactivity of Fe(II) associated with goethite formed during short redox cycles toward Cr(VI) reduction under oxic conditions. Chemical Geology, 464, 101-109.
11. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2017) Powder XRD and TEM study on crystal structure and interstratification of Zn-chlorite (baileychlore). Powder diffraction, 32,118-123.
10. Huifang Xu, Seungyeol Lee, Hongwu Xu (2017) Luogufengite: A new nano-mineral of Fe2O3 polymorph with giant coercive field. American Mineralogist, 102, 711-719.
9. Xin-Yuan Zheng, Brian L. Beard, Seungyeol Lee, Thiruchelvi R. Reddy, Huifang Xu, Clark M. Johnson (2017) Contrasting particle size distributions and Fe isotope fractionations during nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation of Fe minerals: implications for LA-ICP-MS analysis of stable isotopes. Chemical Geology, 450, 235-247
8. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2016) XRD and TEM studies on nanophase manganese oxides in freshwater ferromanganese nodules from Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Clays and Clay Minerals, 64, 523-536.
7. Seungyeol Lee, Zhizhang shen, Huifang Xu. (2016) Study on nanophase iron oxyhydroxides in freshwater ferromanganese nodules from Green Bay, Lake Michigan. American Mineralogist, 101, 1986-1995.
6. Seungyeol Lee and Huifang Xu (2016) Size-Dependent Phase Map and Phase Transformation Kinetics for Nanometric Iron(III) Oxides (γ - ε - α Pathway), The Journal of physical chemistry C, 120, 13316-13322.
5. Seungyeol Lee, Jung Chun Kang, Minji Park, Kyounghee Yang, Hoon Young Jeong (2013) Removal of Arsenite by Nanocrystalline Mackinawite (FeS)-Coated Alumina. Journal of Mineralogy Society of Korea, 26(2), 101-110.
4. Kyu Han Kim, Seungyeol Lee, Keisuke Nagao, Hirochika Sumino, Kyounghee Yang, Jong Ik Lee (2012) He-Ar-H-O isotopic signatures in Au-Ag bearing ore fluids of the Sunshin epithermal gold-silver ore deposits, South Korea. Chemical Geology, 320-321, 128-139.
3. Seungyeol Lee, Jung Chun Kang, Minji Park, Kyounghee Yang, Hoon Young Jeong (2012) Sorption of Arsenite Using Nanosized Mackinawite (FeS)-Coated Silica Sand. Journal of Mineralogy Society of Korea, 25(4), 185-195.
2. Seungyeol Lee, Sangchul Lee, Kyounghee Yang, Hoon Young Jeong (2012) A Technical Note on Monitoring Methods for Volcanic Gases. Journal of Petrology Society of Korea, 21(4), 185-195.
1. Seungyeol Lee, Kyoung-Hee Yang, Byung-Geun Jeon, Gil Bak, Sang-Mo Koh, Jeong-Ryul Seo (2009) Glass Inclusions in Quartz Phenocrysts of Tuff from Sunshin Au Mining Area, Haenam, Jeonnam, Journal of Petrology Society of Korea, 18(4), 337-348.