Lunar soil record of atmosphere loss over eons

NX Nie, N Dauphas, ZJ Zhang, T Hopp… - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The Moon has a tenuous atmosphere produced by space weathering. The short-lived nature
of the atoms surrounding the Moon necessitates continuous replenishment from lunar …

Meteorites have inherited nucleosynthetic anomalies of potassium-40 produced in supernovae

NX Nie, D Wang, ZA Torrano, RW Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Meteorites record processes that occurred before and during the formation of the Solar
System in the form of nucleosynthetic anomalies: isotopic compositions that differ from the …

Rubidium isotope compositions of the average upper continental crust and the Himalayan leucogranites: Implications for magmatic-fluid interaction

X Hu, X Nan, X Liu, F Huang - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Rubidium is a highly fluid-mobile and incompatible element. Rb isotopes have great
potential to trace the migration and enrichment of Rb in magmatic and fluid-related …

Imprint of chondrule formation on the K and Rb isotopic compositions of carbonaceous meteorites

NX Nie, XY Chen, T Hopp, JY Hu, ZJ Zhang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Chondrites display isotopic variations for moderately volatile elements, the origin of which is
uncertain and could have involved evaporation/condensation processes in the …

Determination of rare earth element isotopic compositions using sample-standard bracketing and double-spike approaches

JY Hu, FLH Tissot, R Yokochi, TJ Ireland… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rare earth elements (REEs) have been found to have numerous uses to trace geological
and cosmochemical processes through analyses of elemental patterns, radioactive decay …

Rubidium isotopic fractionation during magmatic processes and the composition of the bulk silicate Earth

B Wang, F Moynier, MG Jackson, F Huang, X Hu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Rubidium is a moderately volatile element with high incompatibility and fluid mobility. Its
stable isotopes have great potential in tracing various geological processes. For example …

Rubidium isotopes reveal dehydration and melting of the subducting slab beneath the Mariana arc

DS Jiang, XT Peng, WJ Xu, X Hu, S Erdmann… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rubidium (Rb) is a strongly incompatible and highly fluid-mobile element and Rb isotopes
have the potential to track subducted material recycling to the mantle source of arc magmas …

Rubidium and potassium isotopic variations in chondrites and Mars: Accretion signatures and planetary overprints

NX Nie, XY Chen, ZJ Zhang, JY Hu, W Liu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
As moderately volatile elements, isotopes of Rb and K can trace volatilization processes in
planetary bodies. Rubidium isotopic data are however very scarce, especially for non …

Rubidium isotope ratios of international geological reference materials

Z Zhang, J Ma, L Zhang, Y Liu… - Geostandards and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we determined rubidium isotope ratios in twenty‐one commonly used
international geological reference materials, including igneous, sedimentary and …

High precision analysis of potassium stable isotopes using the collision/reaction cell Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS

NX Nie, R Grigoryan, FLH Tissot - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Potassium isotopes hold great promise for tracing geological processes, but their analyses
are fraught with complexities. Various methods using different generations of MC-ICPMS …