Stable isotope geochemistry / Геохимия стабильных изотопов

Stable isotope investigations in the earth sciences continue to grow, maybe faster than ever before. After publication of the 5th edition, tremendous progress has been achieved in many subfields of stable isotope geochemistry. To name a few:

– Applications of Multicollector - ICP-MS has grown rapidly and now enable investigations on natural isotope variations of a wide range of transition and heavy elements that could not previously be measured with adequate precision.

– Precise ion probe measurements on the micrometer scale allow the detection of the growth and dissolution history of minerals.

– Evidence for mass-independent fractionation in a variety of compounds and elements has increased considerably.

– High precision analysis of the multiple rare isotopes of a specific element permit the distinction of different mass-dependent fractionation mechanisms.

– Precise measurements of molecules containing more than one rare isotope indicate non-random distributions of the rare isotopes, which potentially may be utilized as one-mineral thermometers. <...>