Cadmium isotope fractionation in seawater - A signature of biological activity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 670-684

  Ripperger, S ^a   Rehkamper M ^b   Porcelli, D ^c   Halliday, A N ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cadmium; double spike; isotope fractionation; mass spectrometry; seawater; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; NEAR-QUANTITATIVE UPTAKE; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ADSORPTION; CADMIUM; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOMASS; CADMIUM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34548483914     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.034     Document Type: Article

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