Volume I
Part I Introductory Chapters
1 "Environmental Isotope Geochemistry": Past, Present and
Future ....................................................... 3
Mark Baskaran
2 An Overview of Isotope Geochemistry in Environmental
Studies ..................................................... 11
D. Porcelli and M. Baskaran
3 Humans and Isotopes: Impacts and Tracers of Human
Interactions with the Environment ........................... 33
Karl K. Turekian
Part II Isotopes as Tracers of Continental and Aquatic
Processes
4 Lithium Isotopes as Tracers in Marine and Terrestrial
Environments ................................................ 41
K.W. Burton and N. Vigier
5 Meteoric 7Be and 10Be as Process Tracers in the
Environment ................................................. 61
James M. Kaste and Mark Baskaran
6 Silicon Isotopes as Tracers of Terrestrial Processes ........ 87
B. Reynolds
7 Calcium Isotopes as Tracers of Biogeochemical Processes .... 105
Laura C. Nielsen, Jennifer L. Druhan, Wenbo Yang, Shaun
T. Brown, and Donald J. DePaolo
8 Natural and Anthropogenic Cd Isotope Variations ............ 125
M. Rehkämper, F. Wombacher, T.J. Horner, and Z. Xue
9 Stable Isotopes of Cr and Se as Tracers of Redox
Processes in Earth Surface Environments .................... 155
Thomas M. Johnson
10 Stable Isotopes of Transition and Post-Transition Metals
as Tracers in Environmental Studies ........................ 177
Thomas D. Bullen
11 Applications of Osmium and Iridium as Biogeochemical
Tracers in the Environment ................................. 205
Mukul Sharma
12 Applications of Stable Mercury Isotopes to
Biogeochemistry ............................................ 229
Joel D. Blum
13 Thallium Isotopes and Their Application to Problems
in Earth and Environmental Science ......................... 247
Sune G. Nielsen and Mark Rehkämper
14 Po-210 in the Environment: Biogeochemical Cycling and
Bioavailability ............................................ 271
Guebuem Kim, Tae-Hoon Kim, and Thomas M. Church
15 Applications of Groundwater Helium ......................... 285
J.T. Kulongoski and D.R. Hilton
16 Applications of Short-Lived Radionuclides (7Be, 210Pb,
210Po, 137Cs and 234Th) to Trace the Sources, Transport
Pathways and Deposition of Particles/Sediments in Rivers,
Estuaries and Coasts ....................................... 305
J.Z. Du, J. Zhang, and M. Baskaran
17 Radium Isotope Tracers to Evaluate Coastal Ocean Mixing
and Residence Times ........................................ 331
L. Zhang, J. Zhang, P.W. Swarzenski, and Z. Liu
18 Natural Radium and Radon Tracers to Quantify Water
Exchange and Movement in Reservoirs ........................ 345
C.G. Smith, P.W. Swarzenski, N.T. Dimova, and J. Zhang
19 Applications of Anthropogenic Radionuclides as Tracers
to Investigate Marine Environmental Processes .............. 367
G.-H. Hong, T.F. Hamilton, M. Baskaran, and T.C. Kenna
20 Applications of Transuranics as Tracers and
Chronometers in the Environment ............................ 395
Michael E. Ketterer, Jian Zheng, and Masatoshi Yamada
21 Tracing the Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of
Phosphorus in Aquatic Systems Using Isotopes of Oxygen
in Phosphate ............................................... 419
Adina Paytan and Karen McLaughlin
22 Isotopic Tracing of Perchlorate in the Environment ......... 437
Neil C. Sturchio, John Karl Bohlke, Baohua Gu, Paul B.
Hatzinger, and W. Andrew Jackson
23 The Isotopomers of Nitrous Oxide: Analytical
Considerations and Application to Resolution of Microbial
Production Pathways ........................................ 453
Nathaniel E. Ostrom and Peggy H. Ostrom
24 Using Cosmogenic Radionuclides for the Determination of
Effective Surface Exposure Age and Time-Averaged Erosion
Rates ...................................................... 477
D. Lal
25 Measuring Soil Erosion Rates Using Natural (7Be, 210Pb)
and Anthropogenic (137Cs, 239,240Pu) Radionuclides ........... 487
Gerald Matisoff and Peter J. Whiting
26 Sr and Nd Isotopes as Tracers of Chemical and Physical
Erosion .................................................... 521
Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Sunil Kumar Singh, and
S. Krishnaswami
27 Constraining Rates of Chemical and Physical Erosion
Using U-Series Radionuclides ............................... 553
Nathalie Vigier and Bernard Bourdon
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