LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“Meteorite finds are commonly used to assess the chemical and isotopic compositions of their parent bodies. Among these, lithium (Li) isotopes in ordinary chondrites (OCs) have been applied to infer the Li abundance and isotopic characteristics of their parent bodies. However, Li is highly mobile in aqueous conditions and readily undergoes isotopic fractionation during fluid\u2013mineral interactions. It remains uncertain whether Li isotopic compositions in meteorite finds reliably preserve their original parent-body signatures, particularly after prolonged terrestrial exposure. In this study, we investigated Li isotope behavior in Kumtag 015 (W3, L5) by conducting a series of leaching experiments. The untreated whole-rock sample yields a \u03b47Li value of +6.1\u2030, whereas all leachates exhibit heavier \u03b47Li values, ranging from +8.4\u2030 to +14.8\u2030, indicating the presence of weathering-related secondary components enriched in heavy Li isotopes. Combined with the petrographic observations and mass-balance results, these data suggest that the relatively heavy whole-rock \u03b47Li of Kumtag 015 is mainly related to the addition of heavy-\u03b47Li surficial fluids during terrestrial weathering, followed by the sequestration of Li into secondary minerals such as carbonates and Fe-(oxyhydr)oxides. This finding is consistent with prior work showing heavy \u03b47Li in carbonates. We conclude that terrestrial alteration can substantially modify Li isotope compositions in meteorite finds, highlighting the need for caution when using such samples to trace pristine planetary Li inventories.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zhong-Sha Meng, Ying-Kui Xu, Shi-Jie Li, Dan Zhu, De-Liang Wang, Yang Li, Xiong-Yao Li, Jian-Zhong Liu MAPS, Version of Record online: 16 May 2026 LINK “Meteorite finds are commonly used to assess the chemical and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,127,64],"tags":[2932,5722,5264,3298,2275,1807,4470,2414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41673,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672\/revisions\/41673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}