Xiaoming Liu
· Associate Professor, McMillan ScholarUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Geology
Active 1997–2025
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About
Xiaoming Liu is an Associate Professor and McMillan Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in geochemistry. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Maryland in 2013 and 2009, respectively, and holds a B.S. from the University of Waterloo and China University of Geosciences obtained in 2007. His research interests include weathering and critical zone processes, the evolution of Earth's surface environment, environmental geochemistry, fluid-rock interactions, and the origin and evolution of the continental crust. He is actively involved in studying the chemical and physical processes that shape Earth's surface and environment.
Research topics
- Chemistry
- Geology
- Mineralogy
- Geochemistry
- Nuclear physics
- Physical geography
- Astronomy
- Astrobiology
- Environmental chemistry
- Radiochemistry
Selected publications
Potassium isotope fractionation during chemical weathering of basalts
Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2020 · 111 citations
A persistently low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s middle age
Nature Communications · 2021 · 109 citations
1st authorCorrespondingof about 1% of present atmospheric level through most of the Proterozoic Eon (2.4 to 0.65 Ga).
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2020 · 104 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingEarth and Planetary Science Letters · 2023-11-17 · 22 citations
articleSenior authorLithium isotope stratigraphy and Ordovician weathering
Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2024-10-11 · 10 citations
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Recent grants
CAREER: Understanding chemical weathering using lithium and potassium isotopes
NSF · $496k · 2019–2024
Frequent coauthors
- 203 shared
Meng Li
- 134 shared
Yunpeng Dong
State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics
- 95 shared
Xiaomin Fang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 72 shared
Menghua Wang
NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research
- 67 shared
Yibo Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 50 shared
Wei Shi
Colorado State University
- 43 shared
Lide Jiang
Colorado State University
- 41 shared
Dengfeng He
Northwest University
Education
- 2012
PhD, Geology
University of Maryland at College Park
- 2009
M.S., Geology
University of Maryland at College Park
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