Methane release alters the tiny shells of «forams» and leaves
a distinctive isotopic signature that can be examined my scientists.
Isotope geochemist Mukul Sharma of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, says he has been unable to find any significant amount of platinum - group elements with
the distinctive isotopic signature showing that they came from space.
Not exact matches
The tracers, which have been tested both in the laboratory and the field, are based on the
distinctive isotopic and geochemical
signatures of two elements, boron and strontium, found in coal ash effluent.