Establishing the Basis for Using Stable Isotope Ratios of Metals as Paleoredox Proxies

Isotopic Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications Using ICP-MS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 317-350

  Wasylenki, Laura E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Fractionation; Geochemistry; Metal isotopes; Multi collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Paleoredox proxy; Stable isotope ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885489904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527650484.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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