Nitrogen in peridotite xenoliths: Lithophile behavior and magmatic isotope fractionation

Nitrogen in peridotite xenoliths: lithophile behavior and magmatic isotope fractionation

1: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, MC186, SES2440, Chicago, IL 60607, U.S.A. 2: Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy Université, CNRS, BP 20, 54501 Vandoeuvre Cedex France 3: Université Européenne de Bretagne, France. 4: Université de Brest ; CNRS ; UMR 6538 Domaines Océaniques; Institut Universitair...

Nitrogen isotope dynamics and fractionation

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Aphids alter host-plant nitrogen isotope fractionation.

Plant sap-feeding insects and blood-feeding parasites are frequently depleted in (15)N relative to their diet. Unfortunately, most fluid-feeder/host nitrogen stable-isotope studies simply report stable-isotope signatures, but few attempt to elucidate the mechanism of isotopic trophic depletion. Here we address this deficit by investigating the nitrogen stable-isotope dynamics of a fluid-feeding...

Observations of nitrogen isotope fractionation in deeply embedded protostars.

CONTEXT The terrestrial planets, comets, and meteorites are significantly enriched in 15N compared to the Sun and Jupiter. While the solar and jovian nitrogen isotope ratio is believed to represent the composition of the protosolar nebula, a still unidentified process has caused 15N-enrichment in the solids. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the variations, including chemical fra...

Isotope Effects, Isotope Separation and Isotope Fractionation