On another note (floral with a bit of spice would be my preference), can I help
with the isotope analysis next time?
Interestingly the wealthiest grave, with a large cruciform brooch, belonged to the individual of native British ancestry (O4), and the individual without grave goods was one of the two genetically «foreign» ones (O2), an observation consistent
with isotope analysis at West Heslerton which suggests that new immigrants were frequently poorer26, 27.
Not exact matches
A recent
analysis of chondrites by Carnegie's Myriam Telus was concerned
with iron - 60, a short - lived radioactive
isotope that decays into nickel - 60.
Angst et al. conducted carbon
isotope analysis on fossils of Gastornis and several contemporaneous herbivorous mammals across several European sites and compared these to
isotope profiles from extant birds
with known diets.
Isotope analyses confirm an itinerant life style, well in tune
with the martial society that dominated 8th to 10th century northern Europe.
He teamed up
with coauthor Paul Koch, a professor of Earth sciences and dean of physical and biological sciences at UC Santa Cruz, to do the
isotope analysis of hair and bone samples.
Because C4 plants concentrate more of carbon's heavier
isotopes compared
with C3 plants, a technique called stable
isotope analysis — which measures the relative concentrations of
isotopes in animal bones — can often detect which plants predominate in the diet.
Analyses revealed that the long - incubated fluids contained low concentrations of methane
with a lower - than - normal concentration of the carbon - 13
isotope — a sure sign that methane - producing microorganisms were living in the fluid, the researchers report online today in Science.
By combining RPO results
with analyses of radiocarbon (a radioactive
isotope of carbon
with a half - life of 5,730 years) and stable carbon
isotopes, scientists can identify the sources and ages of organic matter in the environment.
Isotope analysis of nitrogen and carbon in her hair reveal a diet likely comprising maize and seafood, which, along
with other evidence suggest South American origin and a life spent in coastal Peru or Chile.
Factors associated
with calcium absorption in postmenopausal women: a post hoc
analysis of dual -
isotope studies.
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isotope and physical
analysis of layers in lakes especially those
with varves (annual layers) and in arid areas.
I always think of it as anthropogenic CO2 is «old» carbon
with «young» oxygen, the old and young part being determined by
isotope analysis similar to carbon dating.
It is appropriate as this point to add that if Bolin & Eriksson's conditions in the last paragraph were true, carbonated beer (Bohren, 1987) and soda «pop» as we know it would be an impossibility
with their «buffer» factor (see below); rain and fresh water would not show the observed equilibrium pH of 5.7 (Krauskopf, 1979); and experiments would not had shown complete isotopic equilibrium between CO2 and water in just hours, which in turn is the prerequisite for routine stable
isotope analysis involving CO2 (Gonfiantini, 1981).
The latter is a measure of the heliospheric shielding from cosmic rays derived from the
analysis of cosmogenic
isotope abundances in tree rings or ice cores, and is available
with a time resolution of 2 − 3 solar cycles (Steinhilber et al. 2008).
For your information, I am close to submitting the full LD
isotope record, which I hope to present at SCAR Bremen, along
with some interesting spectral
analyses and comparison to EPICA Dome C.
However, (1) this group's work on varved Finnish lake sediments continues,
with analysis expanded to include additional characteristics, e.g. stable
isotope composition.
Carbon comes in different
isotopes, two of which are most important for climate
analysis: carbon
with 7 neutrons (13C), and carbon
with 6 neutrons (12C).
Coupled
with paleontological
analyses of marine microfossils in deep - sea sediments, these stable -
isotope and trace - element microanalyses provide quantitative measures of global climate and ocean behavior over diverse time scales.
Isotope analysis allows us to identify that this CO2 is the result of «old» carbon combining
with «new» oxygen which is a clear signature of fossil fuel combustion produced CO2.