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Archaeological materials, such as bone, organic residues, hair, or sea shells, can serve as substrates for isotopic analysis. Carbon, nitrogen and zinc isotope ratios are used to investigate the diets of past people; these isotopic systems can be used with others, such as strontium or oxygen, to answer questions about population movements and cultural interactions, such as trade.
An isotopic signature (also isotopic fingerprint) is a ratio of non-radiogenic 'stable isotopes', stable radiogenic isotopes, or unstable radioactive isotopes of particular elements in an investigated material. The ratios of isotopes in a sample material are measured by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry against an isotopic reference material.
Use of the PDB standard gives most natural material a negative δ 13 C. [9] A material with a ratio of 0.010743 for example would have a δ 13 C value of −44‰ from (). The standards are used for verifying the accuracy of mass spectroscopy ; as isotope studies became more common, the demand for the standard exhausted the supply.
Isotope geochemistry is an aspect of geology based upon the study of natural variations in the relative abundances of isotopes of various elements.Variations in isotopic abundance are measured by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, and can reveal information about the ages and origins of rock, air or water bodies, or processes of mixing between them.
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The Suess effect is a change in the ratio of the atmospheric concentrations of heavy isotopes of carbon (13 C and 14 C) by the admixture of large amounts of fossil-fuel derived CO 2, which contains no 14 CO 2 and is depleted in 13 CO 2 relative to CO 2 in the atmosphere and carbon in the upper ocean and the terrestrial biosphere . [1]