Readings

Stable Isotope Fractionation Theory

Schauble, Edwin A. "Applying Stable Isotope Fractionation Theory to New Systems." Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry 55, no. 1 (2004): 65–111.

Practice and Principle of Isotope Fractionation

Hayes, John M. "Practice and Principles of Isotopic Measurements in Organic Geochemistry." (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (2002).

Mercury MIF

Lamborg, Carl. "A New Twist for Mercury." Science 318, no. 5849 (2007): 402–3.

Bergquist, Bridget A., and Joel D. Blum. "The Odds and Evens of Mercury Isotopes: Applications of Mass-Dependent and Mass-Independent Isotope Fractionation." Elements 5, no. 6 (2009): 353–7.

———. "Mass-Dependent and -Independent Fractionation of Hg Isotopes by Photoreduction in Aquatic Systems." Science 318, no. 5849 (2007): 417–20.

Estrade, Nicolas, Jean Carignan, et al. "Mercury isotope fractionation during liquid–vapor evaporation experiments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, no. 10 (2009): 2693–711.

N2O Isotopomers

Santoro, Alyson E., Carolyn Buchwald, et al. "Isotopic Signature of N2O Produced by Marine Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea." Science 333, no. 6047 (2011): 1282–5.

Frame, C. H., and K. L. Casciotti. "Biogeochemical controls and isotopic signatures of nitrous oxide production by a marine ammonia-oxidizing bacterium." Biogeosciences 7, no. 9 (2010): 2695–709.

Park, S., P. Croteau, et al. "Trends and seasonal cycles in the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide since 1940." Nature Geoscience 5 (2012): 261–5.

Clumped Isotope Thermometry

Eiler, John M. "Paleoclimate reconstruction using carbonate clumped isotope thermometry." Quaternary Science Reviews 30, no. 25–26 (2011): 3575–88.

Eagle, Robert A., Edwin A. Schauble, et al. "Body temperatures of modern and extinct vertebrates from 13C-18O bond abundances in bioapatite." Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 23 (2010): 10377–82.

Eagle, Robert A., Thomas Tütken, et al. "Dinosaur Body Temperatures Determined from Isotopic (13C-18O) Ordering in Fossil Biominerals." Science 333, no. 6041 (2011): 443–5.

Atmospheric 17O/O in Solar Wind

Young, Edward D., Albert Galy, et al. "Kinetic and equilibrium mass-dependent isotope fractionation laws in nature and their geochemical and cosmochemical significance." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, no. 6 (2002): 1095–104.

Luz, Boaz, Eugeni Barkan, et al. "Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity." Nature 400 (1999): 547–50.

McKeegan, K. D., A. P. A. Kallio, et al. "The Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Sun Inferred from Captured Solar Wind." Science 332, no. 6037 (2011): 1528–32.

Iron Isotopes and Sulfur MIF

Polyakov, V. B., R. N. Clayton, et al. "Equilibrium iron isotope fractionation factors of minerals: Reevaluation from the data of nuclear inelastic resonant X-ray scattering and Mössbauer spectroscopy." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, no. 15 (2007): 3833–46.

Alp, E. E., W. Sturhahn, et al. "Lattice dynamics and inelastic nuclear resonant x-ray scattering." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 13, no. 34 (2001): 7645–58.

Polyakov, Veniamin B. "Equilibrium fractionation of the iron isotopes: Estimation from Mössbauer spectroscopy data." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, no.19 (1997): 4213–7.

Zerkle, Aubrey L., Mark W. Claire, et al. "A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth." Nature Geoscience 5 (2012): 359–63.

Farquhar, James, Huiming Bao, et al. "Atmospheric Influence of Earth's Earliest Sulfur Cycle." Science 289, no. 5480 (2000): 756–8.

Lyons, James R. "Atmospherically-derived mass-independent sulfur isotope signatures, and incorporation into sediments." Chemical Geology 267, no. 3–4 (2009): 164–74.

Chromium Isotopes

Ellis, Andre S., Thomas M. Johnson, et al. "Chromium Isotopes and the Fate of Hexavalent Chromium in the Environment." Science 295, no. 5562 (2002): 2060–2.

Frei, Robert, Claudio Gaucher, et al. "Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes." Nature 461 (2009): 250–3.

Moynier, Frederic, Qing-Zhu Yin, et al. "Isotopic Evidence of Cr Partitioning into Earth's Core." Science 331, no. 6023 (2011): 1417–20.

Schauble, Edwin, George R. Rossman, et al. "Theoretical estimates of equilibrium chromium-isotope fractionations." Chemical Geology 205, no. 1 (2004): 99–114.

Weiss, Dominik J., Mark Rehkdmper, et al. "Application of Nontraditional Stable-Isotope Systems to the Study of Sources and Fate of Metals in the Environment." Environmental Science & Technology 42, no. 3 (2008): 655–64.

Sulfate Reducer vs. Disproportionation

Canfield, Donald E., Bo Thamdrup. "The Production of δ34S - Depleted Sulfide During Bacterial Disproportionation of Elemental Sulfur." Science 266, no. 5193 (1994): 1973–5.

Johnston, David T., Boswell A. Wing, et al. "Active Microbial Sulfur Disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic." Science 310, no. 5753 (2005): 1477–9.

Sim, Min Sub., Tanja Bosak, et al. "Large Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Does Not Require Disproportionation." Science 333, no. 6038 (2011): 74–7.

Habicht, Kirsten S., and Donald E. Canfield. "Isotope fractionation by sulfate-reducing natural populations and the isotopic composition of sulfide in marine sediments." Geology 29, no. 6 (2001): 555–8.

17O Hydrology

Angert, Alon, Christopher D. Cappa, et al. "Kinetic 17O effects in the hydrologic cycle: Indirect evidence and implications." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, no. 17 (2004): 3487–95.

Landais, Amaelle, Eugeni Barkan, et al. "Record of δ18O and 17O-excess in ice from Vostok Antarctica during the last 150,000 years." Geophysical Research Letter 35 (2008): 5.

Luz, Boaz, and Eugeni Barkan. "Variations of 17O/16O and 18O/16O in meteoric waters." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, no. 22 (2010): 6276–86.

Miller, Martin F. "Isotopic fractionation and the quantification of 17O anomalies in the oxygen three-isotope system: an appraisal and geochemical significance." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, no. 11 (2002): 1881–9.

———. "Comment on "Record of δ18O and 17O-excess in ice from Vostok Antarctica during the last 150,000 years" by Amaelle Landais et al." Geophysical Research Letters 35 (2008): 3.

Sessions, Alex L., and John M. Hayes. "Calculation of hydrogen isotopic fractionations in biogeochemical systems." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, no. 3 (2005): 593–7.