Isotopes as Tracers of Elements Across the Geosphere-Biosphere Interface

Isotopic Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications Using ICP-MS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 351-372

  Kyser, Kurt ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Elemental distribution; Geosphere biosphere interface; Isotope tracers; Metal deposits; Microbes; Multi collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Paleoenvironments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885561626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527650484.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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