A group of scientists believe that a previously unexplained
isotopic ratio from deep within Earth may be a signal from material from the time before Earth collided with another planet - sized body, leading to the creation of the Moon.
Not exact matches
As a result, methane emissions have distinct
isotopic values: Methane emitted
from any microbially driven source such as wetlands or agriculture have values of about -60 ‰ (signifying a relatively low
ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12); oil, gas, and coal emissions have an average carbon
isotopic value of -37 ‰; and tree and crop burning averages about -22 ‰.
Animals that live in the sea have
ratios of carbon and nitrogen isotopes that differ
from those found in terrestrial animals, and this
isotopic signature is passed on to the people who eat them.
A team led by Charles R. Carrigan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used field experiments to build a new, complex model that predicts
isotopic ratios of noble gases that would be released
from such explosions (Sci.
But she had to improve the sensitivity of the technique so that it could detect the
isotopic ratio in DNA
from the roughly 6 - gram sliver of neural tissue in the hippocampus thought to produce new neurons, the dentate gyrus.
The information about oxygen concentration comes
from the
isotopic composition of carbon or rather
from the
ratio between the stable carbon isotopes 12C and 13C.
Also, the rocks astronauts brought back
from the Moon have identical oxygen and titanium
isotopic ratios as those on Earth.78 If large impactors came
from Earth, most moonquakes should be on the near side.
Larger planets will probably have more energy
from these sources, but the radiogeneic inventory of the planet is a wild card (it's hard to know the
isotopic ratios of exoplanets).
(Land volcanoes are
from subduction zones so I'd expect more rapid recycle of C
from ocean sediment to yield a different
isotopic ratio...)
Truth n ° 3 The amount of CO2 in the air
from anthropic emissions is today no more than 6 % of the total CO2 in the air (as shown by the
isotopic ratios 13C / 12C) instead of the 25 % to 30 % said by IPCC
We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the
ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the
isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface
from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.
Looking at the
isotopic record
from the PETM, scientists see both carbon and oxygen isotope
ratios spiking in exactly the way we expect to see in the Anthropocene record.
The researchers were able to discern agricultural methane
from other sources of methane by looking at the gas»
isotopic signatures — or the
ratio of various carbon isotopes — using data
from atmospheric monitoring stations around the world.