Isotopic Signatures and Sedimentary Records

Chemical modifications of supracrustal materials have occurred at various times in the Earth's history. This reference book gives an overlook over themost recent findings of isotope research in the sedimentary environment. The reader, interested in the diagnetic evolution of sediments, can use the book as a tool for the understanding of mineral-water interactions in the supracrustal level.

to “isotopic signatures and sedimentary records”.- Depositional and diagenetic history of limestones: Stable and radiogenic isotopes.- The dolomite problem: Stable and radiogenic isotope clues.- Isotope signatures in phosphate deposits: Formation and diagenetic history.- Origin and diagenesis of cherts: An isotopic perspective.- Stable isotope geochemistry of sulfate and chloride rocks.- History of marine evaporites: Constraints from radiogenic isotopes.- The stable isotope composition of sedimentary iron oxides with special reference to banded iron formations.- Isotopic records in detrital and authigenic feldspars in sedimentary rocks.- Isotopic compositions of clay minerals as indicators of the timing and conditions of sedimentation and burial diagenesis.- Sm-Nd isotopes in fine-grained clastic sedimentary materials: Clues to sedimentary processes and recycling growth of the continental crust.- Depositional history of uranium ores: Isotopic constraints.- Indirect dating of sediment-hosted ore deposits: Promises and problems.- Neodymium, strontium, oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions of waters in present and past oceans: A review.- Stable isotope geochemistry and origin of waters in sedimentary basins.- Isotopic compositions of dissolved strontium and neodymium in continental surface and shallow subsurface waters.- Signatures of radiogenic isotopes in deep subsurface waters in continents.