Resources for Scientific Publications

If you are preparing a manuscript for publication or writing a scientific report using the samples analyzed by Isobar Science, please reference the publications below.

Note: If including Isobar Science’s data in a publication, we appreciate any statement or acknowledgement that Isobar Science performed the analysis.

Boron (B)

  • Foster, G. L.;  Hönisch, B.; Pari, G.; Dwyer, G. S.; Rae, J.W.B.; Elliott, T.; Gaillardet, J.; Hemming, N. G.; Louvat, P.; Vengosh, A., 2013: Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS. Chemical Geology, vol. 358, pp. 1–14. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009254113003744?via%3Dihub
  • 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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X19302699?via%3Dihub

Biogenic Apatite (CaPO4)

  • Grimes, Vaughan, and Maura Pellegrini, 2013: A comparison of pretreatment methods for the analysis of phosphate oxygen isotope ratios in bioapatite. Rapid communications in mass spectrometry 27.3: 375-390.
  • Shabaga, Brandi M., et al, 2018: A simplified silver phosphate extraction method for oxygen isotope analysis of bioapatite. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 32.15: 1237-1242.
  • Wiedemann‐Bidlack, Felicitas B., Albert S. Colman, and Marilyn L. Fogel, 2008: Phosphate oxygen isotope analysis on microsamples of bioapatite: removal of organic contamination and minimization of sample size. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry: An International Journal Devoted to the Rapid Dissemination of Up‐to‐the‐Minute Research in Mass Spectrometry 22.12 (2008): 1807-1816.

Lead (Pb)

  • Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., 2010. Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: Application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta 81, 741-753.

Strontium (Sr)

  • Pourmand, A.; Prospero, J. M. and Sharifi, A., 2014: Geochemical fingerprinting of trans-Atlantic African dust based on radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth element anomalies. GEOLOGY, vol.42, pp.675-678.
  • Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., 2010. Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: Application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta 81, 741-753.

Sr-Nd-Hf / Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb / Sr-Pb

  • Pourmand, A.; Prospero, J. M. and Sharifi, A., 2014: Geochemical fingerprinting of trans-Atlantic African dust based on radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes and rare earth element anomalies. GEOLOGY, vol.42, pp.675-678.
  • Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., 2010. Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: Application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta 81, 741-753.

U-Th Dating

  • Pourmand, A. and Dauphas, N., 2010. Distribution coefficients of 60 elements on TODGA resin: 28 Application to Ca, Lu, Hf, U and Th isotope geochemistry. Talanta 81, 741-753.
  • Pourmand, A.; Tissot, F.L.H.; Arienzo, M. and Sharifi, A., 2013: Introducing a Comprehensive Data Reduction and Uncertainty Propagation Algorithm for U-Th Geochronometry with Extraction Chromatography and Isotope Dilution MC-ICP-MS. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2013.00266.x.

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