PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (student/mentee)
2023
61.Li W., Liu X-M., Hu Y., Suzuki A., Yoshimura T. (2023) Factors controlling coral P/Ca
nutrient proxy: Insights from Porites culture experiments and synchrotron‐based X-ray spectroscopy. (in press, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology).
60.Liu X-F., Liu X-M., Wang X-K.&, Liu X., Zhai S. (2023) Dolostone as a new tracer of seawater lithium isotope composition. (in press, Communications Earth & Environment)
59.Li W., Liu X-M., Nakada R., Takahashi Y., Hu Y., Shakouri Y., Mohsen, Zhang Z., Okumura T., and Yamada S. (2023) The cerium isotope fingerprints of redox fluctuation in bauxites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602: 117962.
2022
58.Zhang J-W, Yan Y-N, Zhao Z-Q, Liu X-M., Li X-D., Zhang D., Ding H., Meng J-L., Liu C- Q. (2022) Spatiotemporal variation of Li isotopes in the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin (upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River): Source and process. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 599: 117849.
57.Li W., Liu X-M., Kun Wang, McManus J., Haley Brian A., Takahashi Y., Shakouri M., Hu Y. (2022d) Potassium isotope signatures in modern marine sediments: Insights into seawater K uptake during early diagenesis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 599: 117849.
56.Cao C., Bataille C.P., Song H., Wu H., Tierney K., Saltzman M., Korte C., Zhang Z., Liu X-M. (2022) Persistent Late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering. Nature Geoscience, 15: 832–838.
55.Wang X-K., Liu X-M., Chen H. (2022) Optimization of potassium chromatography for isotopic analysis in marine carbonates. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 37: 2410 – 2419.
54.Cao C., Liu X-M., and Chen J. (2022) Thermodynamics-based cerium oxidation model calibration in the modern ocean. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.927826.
53.Li W., Liu X-M. (2022) Lithium isotope fractionation during clay adsorption: Mineralogy and fluid chemistry controls. Science of The Total Environment, 851: 158138.
52. Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Hu, Y. F., Chadwick., O. A. (2022) Potassium isotope fractionation during chemical weathering in humid and arid Hawaiian regoliths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 333: 39-55.
51. Cao C., Bataille C.P., Song H., Wu H., Tierney K., Saltzman M., Korte C., Zhang Z., Liu X-M. (2022) Persistent Late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering. (in press, Nature Geoscience)
50. Liu X-M., Gaschnig, R.M., Rudnick, R.L., Hazen, R.M., Shahar, A. (2022) Constant iron isotope composition of the upper continental crust over the past 3 Gyr. Geochem. Persp. Let. 22, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2221.
49. Liu X-F., Zhai S., Wang X-K., Liu X., Liu X-M. (2022) Rare earth element geochemistry of late Cenozoic island carbonates in the South China Sea. Minerals 12, no. 5: 578. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12050578.
48. Cao Y-W., Liu X-M., Wang C., Bai E., Wu N. (2022) Climate-controlled biogeochemical cycle of rare earth elements in soil of Northern China. Ecological Processes 11, 29: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-022-00375-z.
47. Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Hu, Y. F., Suzuki, A., Yoshimura, T. (2022) Potassium speciation and isotopic fractionation in Scleractinian corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 581: 117393.
2021
46. Han R., Wang Z., Shen Y., Wu Q., Liu X.-M., Cao C., Gao S., Zhang J (2021). Anthropogenic Gd in urban river water: A case study in Guiyang, SW China. ELEMENTA: Science of the Anthropocene, 9 (1): 00147.
45. Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Xiao S., Zhou C., Zhu M., Cao M., Loyd S., Crockford P., Liu X.-M., Goderis S., Wang W., Guan C. (2021). Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S, and Ba cycles in response to Shuram oxygenation event. Journal of the Geological Society, 179 (2): jgs2021-081.
44. Zabrecky J., Liu X-M., Wu Q., Cao C. (2021) Evidence of anthropogenic Gadolinium in Triangle Area Waters, North Carolina, USA. Water 2021, 13 (14), 1895.
43. Larsen W., Liu X-M., Riveros-Iregui, D. A. (2021) Rare earth element behavior in springs and streams on a basaltic island: San Cristóbal, Galápagos. Applied Geochemistry, 131:105004.
42. Li W., Liu X-M., Hu, Y., Teng, F. Z., Hu, Y. F., Chadwick, O. A. (2021) Potassium isotope fractionation in humid and arid soil-plant systems in Hawaii. Geoderma, 400: 115219.
41. Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Fodrie, F. J., Yoshimura, T., Hu, Y. F., (2021) Potassium isotopic composition in modern marine biogenic carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304: 364-380.
40. Li W., Liu X-M., Hu Y., Teng F-Z., Hu Y. (2021) Potassium isotope fractionation during clay adsorption. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304: 160-177.
39. Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Koefoed, P. (2021) Lithium and potassium isotope fractionation during silicate rock dissolution: an experimental approach. Chemical Geology, 568: 120142.
38. Li W., and Liu X-M. (2021) Systematic investigations on iron cycling in phosphorus/siderophore systems: synergism or antagonism? Applied Geochemistry, 124: 104796.
37. Liu X-M., Kah L., Knoll A., Cui H., Wang C., Bakker A., Hazen R.M. (2021) A persistently low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth's middle age. Nature Communications, 12: 315.
2020
36. Li W., Liu X-M., Chadwick, O. A. (2020) Lithium isotope behavior in Hawaiian regoliths: Soil-atmosphere-biosphere exchanges. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 285: 175-192.
35. Cui H., Warren L.V., Uhlein G.J., Okubo J., Liu X-M., Plummer R.E., Baele J-M., Goderis S., Claeys P., Li F. (2020) Global or regional? Constraining the origins of the middle Bambuí carbon cycle anomaly in Brazil. Precambrian Research, Special Issue: Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System, 105861.
34. Li W., Liu X-M. (2020) Experimental investigation of lithium isotope fractionation during kaolinite adsorption: Implications for chemical weathering. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 284:156-172.
33. Li W., Liu X-M., Hu Y. (2020b) K and Ca K-edge XANES in chemical compounds and minerals: implications for geological phase identification. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, doi:10.1111/ggr.12351.
32. Li, W. and Liu X-M. (2020) Mobilization and partitioning of rare earth elements in the presence of humic acids and siderophores. Chemosphere, 254: 126801.
31. Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Zou H., Kattan F.K., Trusler P., Smith F., Ivantsov A. Y., Rich T. H., Qubsani A.A., Yazedi A., Liu X-M., Johnson P., Goderis S., Claeys P., Vickers-Rich P. (2020) Primary or secondary? A dichotomy of the strontium isotope anomalies in the Ediacaran carbonates of Saudi Arabia. Precambrian Research, Special Issue: Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System, 105720.
30. Chen H., Liu X-M., Wang K. (2020) Potassium isotope fractionation during chemical weathering of basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 539: 116192.
29. Cao C., Liu X-M., Bataille C.P., Liu C. (2020) What do Ce anomalies in marine carbonates really mean? A perspective from leaching experiments. Chemical Geology, 532: 119413.
28. Hanna H.D., Liu X-M., Rudnick R.L., Park Y-R, Kay S.M. (2020) Lithium isotopes may trace subducting slab signatures in Aleutian arc lavas and intrusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Special Issue: The Continents.
2019
27. Liu X-M. and Li W. (2019) Lithium isotopic analysis by quadrupole-ICP-MS: Optimization for geological samples. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, DOI: 10.1039/C9JA00175A.
26. Liu X-M., Hardisty D., Lyons T., Swart P. (2019) Evaluating the integrity of the cerium paleoredox tracer through analysis of a modern marine carbonate analog. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 248: 25-42.
25. Li W., Liu X-M., Godfrey L. (2019) Development of a matrix independent lithium chromatography and isotopic analysis in geostandards by MC-ICP-MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, doi:10.1111/ggr.12254.
2018
24. Turner, S., Williams, H., Liu, X-M., Blichert-Toft, J., Piazolo, S., Gerdes, M., Adam, J., Martin, L., Maury, R. (2018) Sub-arc xenolith Fe-Li-Pb isotopes and textures tell tales of their journey through the mantle wedge and crust. Geology, 46 (11): 947-950.
23. Brens Jr., R., Liu, X-M., Turner, S., Rushmer, T. (2018) Lithium isotopic composition of the Tonga-Kermadec Arc and constraints on subduction recycling. Island. Arc, doi: 10.1111/iar.12276.
22. Bataille C.P., Ridgway K.D., Colliver L., Liu X-M. (2018) An early Paleogene fluvial regime shift in response to global warming: a subtropical record from the Tornillo basin, West Texas, U.S.A. GSA Bulletin, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31872.1.
21. Dinwiddie E., and Liu X-M. (2018) Examining the geologic link of arsenic contamination in groundwater in Orange County, NC. Frontiers in Earth Science, doi10.3389/feart.2018.00111.
20. Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Peng Y., Liu, X-M., Plummer R., and Lee E. (2018) The Neoproterozoic Hüttenberg δ13C anomaly: Genesis and global implications. Precambrian Geology, 313: 242-262 .
19. Bataille C.P., von Holstein I.C., Laffoon J.E., Wilmes M., Davies G., Liu X-M. (2018) A bioavailable strontium isoscape for Western Europe: A machine learning approach. PLoS ONE, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197386 .
18. Smith C., and Liu X-M. (2018) Spatial and temporal distribution of rare earth elements in the Neuse River, North Carolina. Chemical Geology, 488: 34-43.
17. Wang X., Yang S., Ran X., Liu X-M., Bataille C.P., Su N. (2018) Response of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) water chemistry to the impoundment of Three Gorges Dam during 2010-2011. Chemical Geology, 487: 1-11.
2017
16. Bataille C.P., Willis A., Yang X., Liu X-M. (2017) Continental crust composition: A major control of past global chemical weathering. Science Advances, 3.
15. Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Xiao S., Zhou C., Liu, X-M. (2017) Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 450: 59–80.
14. Penniston-Dorland S., Liu X-M., and Rudnick R. L. (2017) Lithium isotope geochemistry. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 82: 165-217.
2016
13. Cui H., Peek S., Grazhdankin D.V., Xiao S., Rogov V.I., Bykova N.V., Sievers N., Liu X-M., Kaufman A.J. (2016) Redox-dependent distribution of early macro-organisms: Evidence from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation in Arctic Siberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 461:122-139.
12. Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Xiao S., Peek S., Cao H., Min X., Cai Y., Siegel Z., Liu X-M., Peng Y., Schiffbauer J.D. and Martin A.J. (2016). Environmental context for terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals. Geobiology, 14: 344–363.
11. Liu X-M., Kah L., Knoll A., Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Shahar A., Hazen R.M. (2016) Tracing Earth’s O2 evolution using Zn/Fe systematics in marine carbonate. Geochemical Perspective Letters, 2: 24-34.
2015 and before
10. Cui H., Kaufman A.J, Xiao S., Zhu M., Zhou C., Liu X-M. (2015) Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemo-stratigraphic (δ13C–δ34S–87Sr/86Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation. Chemical Geology, 405: 48-62.
9. Liu X-M., Wanner, C., Rudnick R.L., McDonough W.F. (2015) Processes controlling δ7Li in rivers illuminated by study of streams and ground waters draining basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 409: 212-224.
8. Hazen R.M., Liu X-M., Downs R.T., Golden J, Grew E.S., Hystad G., Estrada C., Sverjensky D.A. (2014) Mineral Evolution: Episodic Metallogenesis, the Supercontinent Cycle, and the Co-evolving Geosphere and Biosphere. Specal Publication 18, Society of Economic Geologists.
7. Teng F-Z., Li W-Y., Ke S., Yang W., Liu S-A., Sedaghatpour F., Wang S-J., Huang K-J., Hu Y., Ling M-X., Xiao Y., Liu X-M., Li X-W., Gu H-O., Sio C., Wallace D.A., Su B-X., Zhao L., Harrington M., Brewer A. (2014) Magnesium isotopic compositions of international geostandards. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 39: 329–339.
6. Wanner C., Sonnenthal E.L., Liu X-M. (2014) Seawater δ7Li: a direct proxy for global CO2 consumption by continental silicate weathering? Chemical Geology, 381: 154-167.
5. Liu X-M., Teng F.-Z., Rudnick R.L., McDonough W.F., Cummings M. (2014) Massive magnesium depletion and isotopic fractionation in weathered basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135: 336-349.
4. Nelson B.F.*, Gleeson S.A., Dean A.S.*, Liu X-M., Hoskin P. (2014) The Source of Halogens in Geothermal Fluids from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, North Island, New Zealand. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 126: 265-283.
3. Liu X-M., Rudnick R.L., McDonough W.F., Cummings M. (2013) Influence of chemical weathering on the composition of the continental crust: Insights from Li and Nd isotopes in bauxite profiles developed on Columbia River Basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 115: 73-91.
2. Liu X-M. and Rudnick R.L. (2011) Constraints on continental crustal mass loss via chemical weathering using lithium and its isotopes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108: 20873-80.