News tagged with isotopic analysis
Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...
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Archaeologists to establish true value of Roman silver coins
Mar 05, 2006 |
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An archaeologist at the University of Liverpool is examining more than 1,000 Roman silver coins from museums around the world in order to establish their true economic value.
Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Hikers visiting the Kilauea Iki crater in Hawaii today walk along a mostly flat surface of sparsely vegetated basalt. It looks like parking lot asphalt, but in November and December 1959, it emitted the orange ...
Early agriculture left traces in animal bones
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Unraveling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report finding evidence of ear ...
Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...
Bringing Martian samples to Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2008 |
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New Rochelle, NY, August 13, 2008 – A critical component of NASA's Mars exploration program involves bringing planetary samples back to Earth for in-depth analysis, plans for which are detailed in the latest issue of Astrobiology, a peer ...
Teeth of Columbus' crew flesh out tale of new world discovery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 19, 2009 |
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The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology.
Scientists analyse solar wind from moon rock
Apr 10, 2006 |
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Australian National University scientists preparing for the analysis of solar wind samples from NASA’s Genesis mission believe they have already measured solar wind particles in an analysis of lunar soil.
Origins of sulfur in rocks tells early oxygen story
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sedimentary rocks created more than 2.4 billion years ago sometimes have an unusual sulfur isotope composition thought to be caused by the action of ultra violet light on volcanically produced ...
Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...
Patagonian glacier yields clues for improved understanding of global climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Although ice cores obtained from Antarctica have now provided more than 800 000 years’ worth of climate records, analysis of them alone is insufficient for understanding the history of climatic interactions between the diverse ...
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