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Selected General References

Included here are the citations for a number of general reference texts in the fields of isotope geochemistry, biology, and hydrology.

Barrie, A., and Prosser, S. J. (1996). "Automated Analysis of Light-Element Stable Isotopes by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry", In: T.W. Boutton and S-i Yamasaki (Eds.) Mass Spectrometry of Soils. New York, Marcel Dekker, pp. 1-46

Boutton, T. W. and Yamasaki, S-i (Eds.), (1996). Mass Spectrometry of Soils. New York, Marcel Dekker, 517 pp.

Criss, R.E. (1999), Principles of Stable Isotope Distribution. Oxford University Press.

Clark, I. D., and Fritz, P. (1997). Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology. CRC Press; Boca Raton, 328 pp.

Clauer, N., and Chaudhuri, S. (Eds.), (1992). Isotopic Signatures and Sedimentary Records. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences #43, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 529 p.

Coleman, D.C., and Fry, B., (Eds.), (1991). Carbon Isotope Techniques. Academic Press, 274 p.

Cook, P. and Herczeg, A.L. (Eds.), (2000). Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 529 p.

Dickin, A. P., (1997). Radiogenic Isotope Geology, second edition (paperback), Cambridge University Press, 490 p.

 

 

Faure, G. (1986). Principles of Isotope Geology, second edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 589 p. 

 

Flanagan, L.B., Ehleringer, J.R., and Pataki, D.E. (eds.). 2005. Stable Isotopes and Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions: Processes and Biological Controls. Elsevier.

Fogel, M. L., and Cifuentes, L. A. (1993). "Isotopic Fractionation during Primary Production", In: M.H. Engel and S.A. Macko (Eds.) Organic Geochemistry, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 73-98.

Fritz, P. and Fontes, J. Ch. (Eds.), (1980). Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, vol. 1, Elsevier, New York, 545 p.

Fritz, P. and Fontes, J. Ch. (Eds.), (1986). Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, vol 2, Elsevier, New York, 557 p.

 

 

 

Fritz, P. and Fontes, J. Ch. (Eds.), (1989). Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, vol 3, The Marine Environment, A, Elsevier, New York, 428 p.

Fry, B. 2006. Stable Isotope Ecology. Springer.

Gat, J.R., and Gonfiantini, R. (Eds.), (1981). Stable Isotope Hydrology, Deuterium and Oxygen-18 in the Water Cycle, International Atomic Energy Agency, Technical Reports series No. 210, IAEA, Vienna, 337 p.

Geyh, M.A., and Schleicher, H. (1990). Absolute Age Determination. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 241 p.

Griffiths, H. (Ed.), (1998). Stable Isotopes: Integration of Biological, Ecological and Geochemical Processes. Herndon, VA; Bios Scientific, 438 pp.

Hoefs, J. (1987). Stable Isotope Geochemistry, third edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 241 p.

Högberg, P. (1997). 15N natural abundance in soil-plant systems. New Phytology, v. 137, p. 179-203.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1984). Isotope Hydrology 1983. IAEA, Vienna, 873 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency. (1987). Isotope Techniques in Waters Resources Development 1987. IAEA, Vienna, 815 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1992). Isotope Techniques in Waters Resources Development 1991. IAEA, Vienna, 789 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1996). Isotopes in Water Resources Management 1995, vols 1 and 2. IAEA, Vienna. 463, 530 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1992). Isotopes of Noble Gases as Tracers in Environmental Studies, Proceedings of a Consultants Meeting, Vienna, May 29, 1989, 305 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1993). Isotope Techniques in the Study of Past and Current Environmental Changes in the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere, Proceedings of a Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, 19-23 April, 1993, 622 p.

International Atomic Energy Agency (1998). Isotope Techniques in the Study of Environmental Change, Proceedings of a Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, 14-18 April, 1997, 932 p.

Kendall, C. and McDonnell, J. J. (Eds.), (1998). Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 839 p.

Knowles, R., and Blackburn, T.H., (Eds.), (1993). Nitrogen Isotope Techniques. Academic Press, 311 p.

Krouse, H.R., and Grinenko, V.A. (Eds.), (1991). Stable Isotopes: Natural and Anthropogenic Sulphur in the Environment. John Wiley and Sons, New York, SCOPE 43 (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), 440 p.

Lajtha, K. and Michener, R. H. (Eds.), (1994). Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 316 p.

 

 

Mazor, E. (1997). Chemical and Isotopic Groundwater Hydrology: The Applied Approach. New York; Marcel Dekker, 413 p.

 

Michener, R.H. and Lajtha, K. (eds.), 2007. Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science, 2nd edition, Blackwell Scientific Press (in press).

Ostrom, P. H., and Fry, B. (1993). "Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter within Modern and Prehistoric Food Webs", In: M.H. Engel and S.A. Macko (Eds.) Organic Geochemistry, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 785-798.

Pearson, F.J. Jr., Balderer, W., Loosli, H.H., Lehmann, B.E., Matter, A., Peters, Tj., Schmassmann, H., and Gautschi, A. (1991). Applied Isotope Hydrology: A Case Study in Northern Switzerland. Studies in Environmental Science #43, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 436 p.

 

 

Rundel, P. W., Ehleringer, J. R. and Nagy, K. A. (Eds.), (1989). Stable Isotopes in Ecological Research, Springer-Verlag, New York, 525 p.

 

Sharp, Z. 2006. Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry. Prentice Hall.

Swart, P. K., Lohmann, K. C., McKenzie, J., and Savin, S. (Eds.), (1993). Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records, Geophysical Monograph #78, American Geophysical Union, Washington, 374 p.

Valley, J.W., Taylor, H.P., and O'Neil, J.R., (Eds.), (1986). Stable Isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes. Reviews in Mineralogy, vol. 16, Mineralogical Society of America, 570 p.

 

 

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Fundamentals of Stable Isotope Geochemistry

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