Isotopes in PalaeoEnvironmental-Plant sciencesal Research

About this book

This 10th volume in the DPER series is intended to show how stable isotopes can be applied to understanding the palaeoEnvironmental-Plant sciences. There are chapters on the interpretation of isotopes in water, tree rings, bones and teeth, lake sediments, speleothems and marine sediments. Isotopes can be extremely powerful palaeoEnvironmental-Plant sciencesal tools, however, as with all archives it is desirable to carry out a calibration exercise to investigate the basic systematics of isotope variation in the modern Environmental-Plant sciences to establish the relationship between the measured signal and the isotope composition of the host. A robust calibration is seldom easy so isotope methods should be used in conjunction with a multi-proxy approach, using isotope signals from different materials or combined with other palaeoEnvironmental-Plant sciencesal techniques. This book is advanced but aimed at both students and scientists who are interested in Environmental-Plant sciencesal change.