«Holocene records of carbon and
hydrogen isotope ratios of organic matter in annually laminated sediments of Lake Korttajarvi, central Finland.»
PEER - REVIEW STUDY ScienceDirect.com — Reconstructing tropical cyclone frequency using
hydrogen isotope ratios of sedimentary n - alkanes in northern Queensland, Australia
Hydrogen isotope ratios and sodium levels in ground water spiked in the months before the temblors
Hallis previously used
hydrogen isotope ratios in volcanic basalt rocks to conclude that Earth's water may in fact have been part of the very dust cloud from which the planet first condensed.
So Hallis and her colleagues went looking for vestiges of the early Earth that might preserve the original
hydrogen isotope ratio of the planet.
Not exact matches
As precipitation moves inland, water with the heavier form of
hydrogen falls out first, which creates predictable patterns of the stable
isotopes ratios of precipitation across continents.
Next, Agee and his colleagues used a laser to extract water molecules trapped within minerals in the meteorite and fed them into a mass spectrometer to calculate the
ratio of deuterium, a heavy
isotope of
hydrogen, to ordinary
hydrogen.
To understand the origin of Earth's water, scientists have fingerprinted potential sources, like asteroids and comets, using the
ratio of light to heavy
hydrogen isotopes.
The team based its analysis on
ratios of oxygen and
hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.
Recent measurements of the
ratio of two
isotopes of
hydrogen suggest Enceladus's composition is strangely comet - like.