Variations of Stable Isotope Ratios in Nature

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Isotope variations found in extraterrestrial materials have been classified according to different processes such as chemical mass fractionation, nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, and/or to different sources such as interplanetary dust, solar materials, and comet material. Various geochemical fingerprints point to the reservoir from which the planetary sample was derived and the environment in which the sample has formed. They can be attributed to a variety of processes, ranging from heterogeneities in the early solar nebula to the evolution of a planetary body. For more details the reader is referred to reviews of Thiemens (1988), Clayton (1993, 2004), and McKeegan and Leshin (2001). Extraterrestrial materials consist of samples from the Moon, Mars, and a variety of smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets. These planetary samples have been used to deduce the evolution of our solar system. A major difference between extraterrestrial and terrestrial materials is the existence of primordial isotopic heterogeneities in the early solar system. These heterogeneities are not observed on the Earth or on the Moon, because they have become obliterated during high-temperature processes over geologic time. In primitive meteorites, however, components that acquired their isotopic compositions through interaction with constituents of the solar nebula have remained unchanged since that time.

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Variations of Stable Isotope Ratios in Nature. (2008). In Stable Isotope Geochemistry (pp. 93–227). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70708-0_3

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