Strontium isotopes ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) are commonly used in archeological studies of trade and mobility by tracing the strontium signature in a human or organism with local bedrock geology. However, volcanic eruptions can displace and deposit sediments across landscapes on short timescales, leading to variability in bedrock geology downwind of ...

Abstract. A large bolide impact at the end of the Cretaceous would have produced significant amounts of nitrogen oxides by shock heating of the atmosphere. The resulting acid precipitation would have increased continental weathering greatly and could be an explanation for the observed high ratio of strontium-87 to strontium-86 in seawater at ...

Isotope analysis has become an increasingly valuable tool in forensic anthropology casework over the past decade. Modern-day isotopic investigations on human remains have integrated the use of multi-isotope profiles (e.g. C, N, O, H, S, Sr, and Pb) as well as isotopic landscapes ("isoscapes") from multiple body tissues (e.g. teeth, bone, …

1 Introduction. Strontium is an alkaline earth metal, the 38th element of the periodic table. Totally, 35 isotopes of strontium are known from 73 Sr to 107 Sr [ 1 ]. In …

Much attention has been paid to Sr isotopes. Strontium (Sr), the most abundant trace element in rocks, soil, water, and organisms, is an alkaline earth metal with an atomic number of 38. Its geochemical properties are similar to those of Calcium (Ca) which is often replaced in the form of isomorphism (Pathak and Gupta, 2019). Thus, Sr is ...

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Strontium has four stable isotopes 88 Sr, 87 Sr, 86 Sr and 84 Sr with relative average Earth's abundances of 82.5845%, 7.0015%, 9.8566% and 0.5574%, respectively [8].These were formed during the stellar synthesis [7]. 87 Sr has the particularity of being the only stable isotope of strontium that is radiogenic. The …

1. Introduction. Strontium isotopes (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) have been used extensively in archaeology to trace the provenance of a number of inorganic (mostly stone and vitreous materials) and organic material types.The primary focus of the application of Sr isotopes, however, has undoubtedly been palaeomobility studies. Their use is based on …

Strontium isotopic analysis was performed on the enamel of 24 human skeletons from the site of the Hill of Agios Georgios in Nicosia and the obtained 87Sr/86Sr values were compared against the bioavailable strontium isotope baseline of Cyprus produced by Ladegaard-Pedersen et al. (2020), using soil leachates, plants, and water in order to ...

Strontium isotopes become a valuable tracer in highly saline waters, as strontium concentration can be quite high in these fluids (Table 2 and Figure 1(e)). The role of …

Abstract. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio in fish teeth separated from mid-Cretaceous marl and black shale from the northeastern Apennines and Venetian Alps (Italy) define three periods of low 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio at 121 to 124 million years ago (Ma), 110 to 115 Ma, and 89 to 91 Ma. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr excursions correspond to oceanic anoxic events ...

1. Introduction. The use of bioavailable strontium in different environments to provenance biological materials has become increasingly common since its first applications in ecology and archaeology almost four decades ago (Ericson, 1985; Graustein and Armstrong, 1983).Provenancing biological materials using strontium isotope ratios has …

Strontium-isotope ratios are not particularly diagnostic of source terrain ages because Rb/Sr ratios are easily disturbed. However, Sm/Nd ratios tend to be conservative and neodymium-isotope ratios are effective tracers of the mean crustal age of sediment sources. Neodymium-isotope ratios of Heinrich layers H1, H2, H4, and H5 are …

Strontium atoms are those having 38 protons in the nucleus. They may also have from 46–50 neutrons, and thus strontium atoms can possess a range of atomic weights – 84, 86, 87, and 88 – depending upon the number of neutrons. The natural abundances of these isotopes are 0.56%, 9.86%, 7.0%, and 82.58%, respectively.

Combined neodymium and strontium isotope studies on Tertiary volcanics from northwest Scotland indicate that their parental mantle isotopic compositions have been ... PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 288: 547 (1978). Google …

Strontium is a Group II alkaline earth metal. Elemental strontium (atomic number 38) is a soft, silver-gray metal that behaves similar to the other alkaline earth metals in group II. Strontium occurs naturally in the earth's mantle as a mixture of four stable isotopes, i.e. Sr-84, Sr-86, Sr-87 and Sr-88 (Gupta et al., 2018a). Of these, Sr-88 is ...

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Strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) vary according to geological substrate of an organism's water and food resources and can be used to trace mobility of individuals in landscapes . While Sr isotope analysis is widely used in palaeontology, it has only been applied to a single megafauna specimen from Australia .

The dissolved strontium isotope composition is influenced by the minerals in the reservoir, not by mineral precipitation or cation exchange in the evolution of groundwater circulation (Bullen et al., 1996). Thus, the strontium isotope can be used to examine the geothermal circulation pathway (Fan et al., 2018).

Strontium Isotopic Ratios of Water. Strontium isotopic ratios (87Sr/86Sr) can be used to detect and trace groundwater sources and interactions with local geology, influenced by the flow path and rate of water underground. Sr isotopes can identify the mixing between different water bodies, changes in watershed histories, specify nutrient ...

Strontium dating of foraminifera, shells & corals. Strontium dating (as enabled by the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio of marine carbonates) can be used to date various marine samples based on the premise that the mixing of oceanic strontium occurs relatively rapidly through time compared to the residence time of oceanic strontium.

However, the strontium-isotope positive-recovery pattern broadly corresponds with the pattern and interpretation of other weathering proxies (δ 44/40 Ca and 187 Os/ 188 Os) during the T-OAE. These observations suggest that the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr trend still likely reflects the real regional signal but was superimposed by global influence, although ...

Strontium isotope records in seawater can inform us about the history of continental weathering and marine carbonate burial. To reconstruct these records from marine sediments, we need consistent Sr isotope fractionation between seawater and the sediments. ... This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of …

Abstract. The isotopic ratio of strontium-87 to strontium-86 shows no detectable variation in present-day ocean water but changes slowly over millions of years. The strontium contained in carbonate shells of marine organisms records the ratio of strontium-87 to strontium-86 of the oceans at the time that the shells form.

Strontium Isotopes in Biological Material: A Key Tool for the Geographic Traceability of Foods and Humans Beings. Simone Tommasini, Sara Marchionni, Ines …

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Recent deep-sea sediments, leached of carbonate, have Sr 87 : Sr 86 ratios ranging from 0.7044 to 0.7394. Strontium in the detrital sediment has not equilibrated isotopically with seawater strontium.

Strontium isotope ratios (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) are a popular tool in provenance applications in archeology, forensics, paleoecology, and environmental sciences.Using bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr in provenance studies requires comparing the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr of a sample of interest to that of 87 Sr/ 86 Sr baselines. Historically, these baselines required …

The recent demonstration that strontium isotope ratio (87 Sr/ 86 Sr) remain unaltered during cremation and are even very resistant to post-burial alterations ... (FWO) and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) within the framework of the Excellence of Science (EoS) program in Belgium (30999782). ...

Radiogenic strontium isotopes are routinely used in provenance studies, but their application to sediments is often complicated by various grain size and weathering effects, which can influence measured 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios. Here, we report Sr isotopic data for a large number of sediment samples (n = 61) from the world's largest rivers and other …