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Strontium Ratios

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Bentley, R. A., 2006: Strontium Isotopes from the Earth to the Archaeological Skeleton: A Review. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 135-187. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-006-9009-x

Capo, R.C.; Stewart, B. W.; Chadwick, O. A., 1998: Strontium isotopes as tracers of ecosystem processes: theory and methods. Geoderma, vol. 82, pp. 197-225.

McArthur, J. M.; Howarth, R. J. and Bailey, T. R., 2001: Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy: LOWESS Version 3: Best Fit to the Marine Sr‐Isotope Curve for 0–509 Ma and Accompanying Look‐up Table for Deriving Numerical Age. The Journal of Geology , vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 155-170.

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Archaeology

Lugli, F.; Cipriani, A.; Capecchi, G.; Ricci, S., Boschin, F.; Boscato, P.; Iacumin, P.; Badino, F.; Mannino, M. A.; Talamo, S.; Richards, M. P.; Benazzi, S.; Ronchitelli, A., 2019: Strontium and stable isotope evidence of human mobility strategies across the Last Glacial Maximum in southern Italy. Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 905–911. DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-0900-8.

Marchionni, S.; Braschi, E.; Tommasini, S.; Bollati, A.; Cifelli, F.; Mulinacci, N.; Mattei, M.; Conticelli, S., 2013:High-Precision 87Sr/86Sr Analyses in Wines and Their Use as a Geological Fingerprint for Tracing Geographic Provenance. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 28, pp. 6822-6831. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf4012592

Peters, K. E.; Walters, C. C. and Moldowan, J. M., 2005: The Biomarker Guide, Second Edition, Volum I Biomarkers and Isotopes in the Environment and Human History. Cambridge University Press, 471 p. ISBN 0 521 78158 2.

Geology

Prinos, S.T.; Wacker, M. A.; Cunningham, K. J.; Fitterman, D. V., 2014: Origins and Delineation of Saltwater Intrusion in the Biscayne Aquifer and Changes in the Distribution of Saltwater in Miami-Dade County, Florida. U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5025. https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20145025

U-Th Dating

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Goslar, Tomasz, Helena Hercman, and Anna Pazdur. “Comparison of U-series and radiocarbon dates of speleothems.” Radiocarbon 42.3 (2000): 403-414

Farley, K.A., 2002. (U-Th)/He dating: Techniques, calibrations, and applications. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 47(1), pp.819-844.

Pike, A.W., Hoffmann, D.L., Pettitt, P.B., García-Diez, M. and Zilhao, J., 2017. Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go. Quaternary International, 432, pp.41-49.

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Geology/Paleoclimatology

Andersen, M. B., et al. “U-series dating of fossil coral reefs: consensus and controversy.” Pages News 17 (2009): 54-56. DOI:10.22498/PAGES.17.2.54

Thompson, William G., et al. “An open-system model for U-series age determinations of fossil corals.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210.1-2 (2003): 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00121-3

Yehudai, Maayan, et al. “U–Th dating of calcite corals from the Gulf of Aqaba.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 198 (2017): 285-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.005

Clark, Tara R., et al. “U-Th dating reveals regional-scale decline of branching Acropora corals on the Great Barrier Reef over the past century.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.39 (2017): 10350-10355. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705351114

DeCarlo, Thomas M., et al. “Coral Sr‐U thermometry.” Paleoceanography 31.6 (2016):

626-638. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002908

Bischoff, J. L., and J. A. Fitzpatrick (1991), U‐series dating of impure carbonates: An isochron technique using total‐sample dissolution, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 55, 543–554. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(91)90011-S

Placzek, Christa, et al. “Strategies for successful U‐Th dating of paleolake carbonates: An example from the Bolivian Altiplano.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7.5 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GC001157

Spötl, Christoph, and Ronny Boch. “Uranium series dating of speleothems.” Encyclopedia of caves. Academic Press, 2019. 1096-1102. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814124-3.00128-X

Chen, C.Y., McGee, D., Woods, A., Pérez, L., Hatfield, R.G., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Lehmann, S.B., Stoner, J.S. and Schwalb, A., 2020. U-Th dating of lake sediments: Lessons from the 700 ka sediment record of Lake Junín, Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, p.106422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106422

Archaeology

Pons-Branchu, Edwige, et al. “Uranium-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art: interest and limitations.” Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (2014): 211-224. 10.3406/bspf.2014.14395

Sauvet, Georges, et al. “Uranium–thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art.” Quaternary International 432 (2017): 86-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.053

Hydrology

Charette, M.A., Moore, W.S. and Burnett, W.C., 2008. Uranium-and thorium-series nuclides as tracers of submarine groundwater discharge. Radioactivity in the Environment, 13, pp.155-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-4860(07)00005-8

Rovan, L., Lojen, S., Zuliani, T., Kanduč, T., Petrič, M., Horvat, B., Rusjan, S. and Štrok, M., 2020. Comparison of uranium isotopes and classical geochemical tracers in Karst Aquifer of Ljubljanica River catchment (Slovenia). Water, 12(7), p.2064. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072064

Sr-Nd-Hf

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Jweda, J., Bolge, L., Class, C. and Goldstein, S.L., 2016. High precision Sr‐Nd‐Hf‐Pb isotopic compositions of USGS reference material BCR‐2. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 40(1), pp.101-115.

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Geology

Sharifi, A.; Murphy, L. N.; Pourmand, A.; Clement, A. C.; Canuel, E. A.; Naderi Beni, A.; Lahijani, H. A. K. and Ahmady-Birgani, H., 2018:Early Holocene Greening of the Afro-Asian Dust Belt Changed Sources of Mineral Dust in West Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 481, pp.30-40, DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.001

Boron Isotopes

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Spivack, A.J., Palmer, M.R. and Edmond, J.M., 1987. The sedimentary cycle of the boron isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51(7), pp.1939-1949.

Lemarchand, D., Gaillardet, J., Lewin, E. and Allegre, C.J., 2000. The influence of rivers on marine boron isotopes and implications for reconstructing past ocean pH. Nature, 408(6815), pp.951-954.

Marschall, H.R. and Foster, G.L., 2018. Boron isotopes in the earth and planetary sciences—a short history and introduction. In Boron Isotopes (pp. 1-11). Springer, Cham.

DeFrancesco, H., Dudley, J. and Coca, A., 2016. Boron chemistry: an overview. Boron Reagents in Synthesis, pp.1-25.

Widory, D., Petelet-Giraud, E., Négrel, P. and Ladouche, B., 2005. Tracking the sources of nitrate in groundwater using coupled nitrogen and boron isotopes: a synthesis. Environmental Science & Technology, 39(2), pp.539-548.

Xiao, J., Xiao, Y.K., Jin, Z.D., He, M.Y. and Liu, C.Q., 2013. Boron isotope variations and its geochemical application in nature. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(4), pp.431-447.

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Hydrology

Briand, C.; Plagnes, V.; Sebilo, M.; Louvat, P.; Chesnot, T.; Schneider, M.; Ribstein, P. and Marchet, P., 2013: Combination of nitrate (N, O) and boron isotopic ratios with microbiological indicators for the determination of nitrate sources in karstic groundwater. Environ. Chem., vol. 10, pp. 365–369. https://doi.org/10.1071/EN13036

EPA-68-01-3201, 1976: Chemical technology and economics in environmental perspectives. Task II- Removal of Boron from wastewater. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Toxic Substances, Washington, D.C. 20460

Quast, K.W., Lansey, K., Arnold, R., Bassett, R.L. and Rincon, M., 2006. Boron isotopes as an artificial tracer. Groundwater, 44(3), pp.453-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00186.x

Geology

De Hoog, J.C. and Savov, I.P., 2018. Boron isotopes as a tracer of subduction zone processes. Boron Isotopes, pp.217-247.

Marschall, H.R., 2018. Boron isotopes in the ocean floor realm and the mantle. Boron isotopes, pp.189-215.

Stewart, Joseph A., Eleni Anagnostou, and Gavin L. Foster. “An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite.” Chemical Geology 447 (2016): 148-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.029

Paleoclimatology

Chalk, T.B.; Foster, G.L.; Wilson, P.A., 2019: Dynamic storage of CO2 in the Atlantic Ocean revealed by boron [CO32-] and pH record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 510, pp. 1-11.

Giri, S.J.; Swart, P.K.; Pourmand, A., 2019: The influence of seawater calcium ions on coral calcification mechanisms: Constraints from boron and carbon isotopes and B/Ca ratios in Pocillopora damicornis. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, vol. 519, pp.130-140.

Foster, G.L. and Rae, J.W., 2016. Reconstructing ocean pH with boron isotopes in foraminifera. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44, pp.207-237.

Müller, T., Jurikova, H., Gutjahr, M., Tomašových, A., Schlögl, J., Liebetrau, V., Duarte, L.V., Milovský, R., Suan, G., Mattioli, E. and Pittet, B., 2020. Ocean acidification during the early Toarcian extinction event: Evidence from boron isotopes in brachiopods. Geology, 48(12), pp.1184-1188.

Lead Isotopes

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Komárek, M., Ettler, V., Chrastný, V. and Mihaljevič, M., 2008. Lead isotopes in environmental sciences: a review. Environment international, 34(4), pp.562-577.

Cheema, A.I., Liu, G., Yousaf, B., Abbas, Q. and Zhou, H., 2020. A comprehensive review of biogeochemical distribution and fractionation of lead isotopes for source tracing in distinct interactive environmental compartments. Science of The Total Environment, 719, p.135658.

Doe, B.R., 2012. Lead isotopes (Vol. 3). Springer Science & Business Media.

Example studies

Paleoclimate / Paleoenvironment

Bozlaker, A.; Prospero, J. M.; Price, J., and Chellam, S., 2018: Linking Barbados Mineral Dust Aerosols to North African Sources Using Elemental Composition and Radiogenic Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotope Signatures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, pp. 1384–1400. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027505

Larsen, M. M.; Blusztajn, J. S.; Andersen, O. Dahllӧf, I., 2012: Lead isotopes in marine surface sediments reveal historical use of leaded fuel. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, vol. 14, pp.2893-2901. DOI: 10.1039/c2em30579h

Hydrology

Dunlap, C. E.; Alpers, C. N.; Bouse, R. M.; Taylor, H. E.; Unruh D. M. and Flegal, A. R., 2008: The persistence of lead from past gasoline emissions and mining drainage in a large riparian system: Evidence from lead isotopes in the Sacramento River, California. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 72, pp. 5935–5948. DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2008.10.006.

Négrel, P., Millot, R., Roy, S., Guerrot, C. and Pauwels, H., 2010. Lead isotopes in groundwater as an indicator of water–rock interaction (Masheshwaram catchment, Andhra Pradesh, India). Chemical Geology, 274(3-4), pp.136-148. 10.1016/J.CHEMGEO.2010.03.012

Forensics

Sjåstad, K.E; Lucy, D. and Andersen, T., 2016: Lead isotope ratios for bullets, forensic evaluation in a Bayesian paradigm. Talanta, vol. 146, pp.62–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2015.07.070

Bartelink, E.J. and Chesson, L.A., 2019. Recent applications of isotope analysis to forensic anthropology. Forensic sciences research, 4(1), pp.29-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2018.1549527

Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Youmans, L.V., O’Brien, M.A. and Harmon, M.M., 2018. Forensic identification of human skeletal remains using isotopes: a brief history of applications from archaeological dig sites to modern crime scenes. In New perspectives in forensic human skeletal identification (pp. 157-173). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805429-1.00014-4

Geology / Environmental Sciences

Woodhead, J. D. and Fraser, D. G., 1985: Pb, Sr and 10Be isotopic studies of volcanic rocks from the Northern Mariana Islands. Implications for magma genesis and crustal recycling in the Western Pacific. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 49. pp. 1925-1930 https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(85)90087-0

Reimann, C., Flem, B., Fabian, K., Birke, M., Ladenberger, A., Négrel, P., Demetriades, A., Hoogewerff, J. and Team, T.G.P., 2012. Lead and lead isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe–The continental perspective. Applied Geochemistry, 27(3), pp.532-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.12.012

Archaeology

Melheim, L., Grandin, L., Persson, P.O., Billström, K., Stos-Gale, Z., Ling, J., Williams, A., Angelini, I., Canovaro, C., Hjärthner-Holdar, E. and Kristiansen, K., 2018. Moving metals III: Possible origins for copper in Bronze Age Denmark based on lead isotopes and geochemistry. Journal of Archaeological Science, 96, pp.85-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.003

Shaw, H., Montgomery, J., Redfern, R., Gowland, R. and Evans, J., 2016. Identifying migrants in Roman London using lead and strontium stable isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, pp.57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.001

Macfarlane, A.W. and Lechtman, H.N., 2016. Andean ores, bronze artifacts, and lead isotopes: constraints on metal sources in their geological context. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(1), pp.1-72 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-014-9225-8

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