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." (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/16^O 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.