Ce and Nd stable isotope purification and determination of geological samples by MC-ICP-MS

JH Bai, JL Ma, GJ Wei, L Zhang… - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The combined study of Ce and Nd stable isotopes is promising because Ce and Nd behave
similarly in geological processes and distinctively in redox reactions. However, the …

Holocene provenance variations and palaeofloods response to ENSO-driven monsoon precipitation in the subalpine peatland in Southern China

X Qu, C Huang, Z Rao, G Wei, L Wu, Y Luo, Y Li… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
There have been few investigation of the provenance of sediments and hydrological
response to past climatic change in the subalpine peatland in southern China. The source of …

Stable neodymium isotopic fractionation during chemical weathering

J Bai, K Luo, C Wu, Z Wang, L Zhang, S Yan… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable Nd isotope ratio is a potentially useful tool to provide new constraints on the
geological reservoir formation processes, complementing information from the radiogenic …

Simultaneous measurement stable and radiogenic Nd isotopic compositions by MC-ICP-MS with a single-step chromatographic extraction technique

JH Bai, F Liu, ZF Zhang, JL Ma, L Zhang… - Journal of Analytical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Removing interferences such as Ce on Nd isotopes during column chemistry is hard to
achieve due to their similar properties. In this study, we established a simple but efficient Nd …

Source-to-sink processes of fluvial sediments in the northern South China Sea: constraints from river sediments in the coastal region of South China

L Cao, J Liu, X Shi, W He, Z Chen - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The fine-grained fractions (< 63 μm) of nine fluvial sediments from South China
coastal rivers (SCCR) and fourteen surface sediments from the continental shelf of the …

Stable neodymium isotope ratios of geological reference materials

J Bai, J Ma, G Wei, L Zhang, C Liu… - Geostandards and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we report the stable Nd isotopic compositions of twenty‐seven widely available
geological reference materials (RMs) including silicates, sediments, soils and carbonates …

Enhancement of mesopelagic sinking particle fluxes due to upwelling, aerosol deposition, and monsoonal influences in the northwestern South China Sea

J Zhang, H Li, J Xuan, Z Wu, Z Yang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Time series data from a sediment trap at approximately 1,000‐m depth in the northwestern
South China Sea, July 2012 to April 2013, were used in combination with remote sensing …

Carbon Isotopic Constraints on Basin‐Scale Vertical and Lateral Particulate Organic Carbon Dynamics in the Northern South China Sea

J Zhang, H Li, MG Wiesner, TI Eglinton… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Lateral particle transport in shelf/slope settings of marginal sea systems may potentially
supply allochthonous particulate organic carbon (POC) to the ocean interior. The magnitude …

Dissolved rare earth element and neodymium isotope distributions in the South China Sea: Water mass source versus particle dissolution

Q Wu, Z Liu, C Colin, E Douville, Y Zhao… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dissolved rare earth elements (REEs) and neodymium isotopes (ϵNd) have been jointly
used to evaluate water mass mixing and lithogenic inputs in the ocean. As the largest …

Sequential separation of cerium (Ce) and neodymium (Nd) in geological samples for high-precision analysis of stable Ce isotopes, and stable and radiogenic Nd …

W Ding, XY Zheng - Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Stable isotopes of cerium (Ce) and neodymium (Nd), two rare earth elements (REEs), have
emerged recently as useful tracers for a range of geological and environmental processes …