Boron Isotopes The Fifth Element

This new volume on boron isotope geochemistry offers review chapters summarizing the cosmochemistry, high-temperature and low-temperature geochemistry, and marine chemistry of boron. It also covers theoretical aspects of B isotope fractionation, experiments and atomic modeling, as well as all aspects of boron isotope analyses in geologic materials using the full range of solutions and in-situ methods. The book provides guidance for researchers on the analytical and theoretical aspects, as well as introducing the various scientific applications and research fields in which boron isotopes currently play a major role. The last compendium to summarize the geochemistry of boron and address its isotope geochemistry was published over 20 years ago (Grew &Anovitz, 1996, MSA Review, Vol.33), and there have since been significant advances in analytical techniques, applications and scientific insights into the isotope geochemistry of boron. This volume in the “Advances in Isotope Geochemistry” series provides a valuable source for students and professionals alike, both as an introduction to a new field and as a reference in ongoing research.

Boron isotopes in the earth sciences – history and background.- Boron isotope analyses of geologic materials.- Boron incorporation into marine CaCO3.- Boron isotopes in foraminfera.- Boron isotopes in corals.- Boron isotopes in riverine systems and the weathering environment.- Boron isotopes as tracers of pollution.-Boron-isotope fractionation among solids-?uids-melts: experiments and atomic modeling.- Boron isotopes in the mantle, and the fresh and altered oceanic crust.- Subduction zones, dehydration, metasomatism, mud and serpentinite volcanoes, and arc magmatism.- Continental crust, granites, pegmatites, high-T crustal metamorphism, and ore deposits.