introduction one of the first principles in the formation of a reserve is mineralogical, construction and mineral textures studies and investigation of paragenetic relations in the ore minerals. in addition, to petrographic studies, isotopic investigates have wide applications in economic geology. in general, copper isotope variability in primary (high temperature) mineralization forms a tight ...

Stable isotope analyses of discrete seasonal layers from a 108-yr annually laminated freeze-core from Baldeggersee, a small, eutrophic lake in central Switzerland, provide information on the climatological and environmental factors, including lake eutrophication, that control oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of epilimnic biologically induced calcite precipitate. During the last 100 yr, Ba...

Stable isotope analysis of feces can provide a non-invasive method for tracking the dietary habits of nearly any mammalian species. While fecal samples are often collected for macroscopic and genetic study, stable isotope analysis can also be applied to expand the knowledge of species-specific dietary ecology. It is somewhat unclear how digestion changes the isotope ratios of animals' diets, so...

for this study, asmari (oligo-miocene) and bangestan (cretaceous) reservoir oils from themarun oilfield were studied geochemically. gas chromatograms and stable isotopes of carbon and sulfur indifferent oil fractions were studied. normal alkanes nc15+ are as high as 93% with a saturate percentage up to53.9% which reveal a high maturity of asmari and bangestan reservoir paraffinic oils. carbon p...

[1] Stable oxygen isotope fractionation factors (a’s) between individual dissolved carbonate species (CO2(aq.), H2CO3, HCO3 , CO3 2 ) and water, and their sum (S = [CO2(aq.)] + [H2CO3] + [HCO3 ] + [CO3 2 ]) and water are fundamental geochemical parameters. While values of a(CO2(aq.) H2O), a(HCO3 H2O), and a(CO32 H2O) have recently been examined, an overall mass balance for stable oxygen isotope...

A reservoir model of a Recent steady-state sedimentary system in which the reduced sulfur and oxidized sulfur reservoirs were coupled with the oxidized carbon and reduced carbon reservoirs was constructed. The time curve of the sulfur isotope ratios of the sedimentary sulfate reservoir was used to drive the model back to the beginning of Cambrian time (600 million years ago), producing the rese...

Watershed-scale carbon budgets remain poorly understood, in part due to inadequate simulation tools to assess in-stream carbon fate and transport. A new numerical model termed ISOtope-based FLuvial Organic Carbon (ISOFLOC) is formulated to simulate the fluvial organic carbon budget in watersheds where hydrologic, sediment transport, and biogeochemical processes are coupled to control benthic an...

Distnbution of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in fish otoliths from a wide range of species was invesugated to determine if the isotopes were deposited in equilibnum with ambient seawater and the potential utihty of isotope data to studies of fish biology Companson of 6180 and 6 I3c data from otoliths w t h estimates of equilibnurn aragonite indicate that ''0, but not I3C was deposited near ...

The biological signal hidden in stable carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium stable isotope ratios in archaeological and fossil skeletal finds give clues to a variety of palaeoecological parameters. In contrast to trace element analysis, these parameters can be assessed on the individual level, which is a major advantage for palaeoanthropology, where single finds prevail over multiple finds at...