Lithium isotopes in low and high temperature hydrosystems

Romain Millot (1) , Jérôme Gaillardet (2) , Nathalie Vigier (3) , Bernard Bernard Sanjuan (1) , Philippe Négrel (1)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
3 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques

Assessing the origin and behaviour of lithium and the distribution of Li isotopes in hydro-systems is of major importance in order to increase our knowledge of the lithium cycling at the Earth's surface. Lithium is a fluid-mobile element and due to the large relative mass difference between its two stable isotopes, it is subject to significant low and high temperature mass fractionation which provides key information on the nature of water/rock interaction processes. The main objective of the present work is to constrain the behaviour of Li and its isotopes by focusing on three different hydrosystems: rainwaters, river waters and deep geothermal waters.

Mots clés: lithium; isotopes; water/rock interaction

Domaines: Géochimie; Milieux et Changements globaux

Romain Millot, Jérôme Gaillardet, Nathalie Vigier, Bernard Bernard Sanjuan, Philippe Négrel. Lithium isotopes in low and high temperature hydrosystems. 9th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Sep 2011, Tarragona, Spain. pp.1. ⟨hal-00579650⟩