Xiaoming Liu

Associate Professor

Liu Lab

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2013
M.S., University of Maryland, 2009
B.S., University of Waterloo and China University of Geosciences, 2007

Research Interests

Weathering and critical zone processes; Evolution of Earth’s surface environment; Environmental Geochemistry; Fluid-Rock Interactions; Origin and evolution of the continental crust.

Selected Publications

• 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)
• Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Hu, Y. F., and Chadwick, O. A. (2022) Soil potassium isotope composition during four million years of ecosystem development in Hawai‘i. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 332: 57-77.
• 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.
• 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.
• Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Hu, Y. F., Suzuki, A., and Yoshimura, T. (2022) Potassium speciation and isotopic fractionation in Scleractinian corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 581: 117393.
• Li W., Liu X-M., Wang, K., Fodrie, F. J., Yoshimura, T., and Hu, Y. F., (2021) Potassium isotopic composition in modern marine biogenic carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304: 364-380.
• 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.
• Liu X-M., Kah L., Knoll A., Cui H., Wang C., Bakker A., and Hazen R.M. (2021) A persistently low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s middle age. Nature Communications, 12: 315.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hanna H.D., Liu X-M., Rudnick R.L., Park Y-R, and 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, 278: 322-339.
• Liu X-M. and Li W. (2019) Lithium isotopic analysis by quadrupole-ICP-MS: Optimization for geological samples. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 34: 1708-1717.
• Liu X-M., Hardisty D., Lyons T., and 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.
• 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.
• Bataille C.P., Willis A., Yang X., and Liu X-M. (2017) Continental Crust Composition: A Major Control of Past Global Chemical Weathering. Science Advances, 3, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602183.
• Penniston-Dorland S., Liu X-M., and Rudnick R. L. (2017) Lithium Isotope Geochemistry. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 82: 165-217.
• Liu X-M., Kah L., Knoll A., Cui H., Kaufman A.J., Shahar A., and Hazen R.M. (2016) Tracing Earth’s O₂ evolution using Zn/Fe systematics in marine carbonate. Geochemical Perspective Letters, 2: 24-34.
• Liu X-M., Wanner C., Rudnick R.L., and 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.
• Wanner C., Sonnenthal E.L., and Liu X-M. (2014) Seawater δ⁷Li: a direct proxy for global CO₂ consumption by continental silicate weathering? Chemical Geology, 381: 154-167.
• Liu X-M., Teng F.-Z., Rudnick R.L., McDonough W.F., and Cummings M. (2014) Massive magnesium depletion and isotopic fractionation in weathered basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135: 336-349.
• Liu X-M., Rudnick R.L., McDonough W.F., and 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.
• 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.
• Liu X-M., Rudnick R.L., Hier-Majumder S., and Sirbescu M.C. (2010) Processes Controlling Lithium Isotopic Distribution in Contact Aureoles: a case study of the Florence County Pegmatites, Wisconsin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11: Q08014.