Isotopic variations usually follow mass-dependent fractionation, meaning that the relative
variations in isotopic ratios scale with the difference in mass of the isotopes involved (eg …

The CM chondrites are samples of primitive water-rich asteroids formed during the early
solar system. They record significant interaction between liquid water and silicate rock …

The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the
largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an …

Abstract Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry is written as a textbook to accompany a
one semester course in Stable Isotope Geochemistry. There are 13 chapters, each dealing …

The delivery of water to the inner Solar System, including Earth, is still a debated topic. A
preferential role for hydrated asteroids in this process is supported by isotopic …

A variety of lines of evidence show that water was widely available during the earliest
geological history of the solar system. Water played a significant role in the cosmochemical …

All planetary materials sampled thus far vary in their relative abundance of the major isotope
of oxygen, 16O, such that it has not been possible to define a primordial solar system …

Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the
Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic …

The abundances of oxygen isotopes in the most refractory mineral phases (calcium-
aluminium-rich inclusions, CAIs) in meteorites have hitherto defied explanation. Most …

Doppler weather radar imaging enabled the rapid recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite after
a rare 4-kiloton of TNT–equivalent asteroid impact over the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in …