Strontium isotopes
The 87Sr/86Sr
isotope Ratio is used to reveal the relationship of continental water influx into oceanic waters. Affected by rate of sea-floor spreading versus continental weathering plus meteoric influx into the sea. Particularly useful in dating Cenozoic sediment deposits.
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Strontium isotope Bibliography
Brookins, D.G., 1988, Seawater 87Sr86Sr for the Late Permian Delaware
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Claypool, G.E., Holser, W.T., Kaplan, I.R., Sakai, H., Zak, I.,1980, The age curves of sulfur and oxygen
isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation. Chemical Geology, 28, 199–260.
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Davis, J. B., and Kirkland, D. W., 1970, Native sulfur deposition in Castile Formation, Culberson County, Texas. Econ. Geology, 65, 107-121.
Denison, R.E., Kirkland, D.W., and Evans, R., 1998,
Using Strontium
isotopes to Determine the Age and Origin
of
gypsum and Anhydrite Beds. The Journal of Geology, 106 (1), 1–17.
Donovan, TJ, I Friedman, JD Gleason, 1974, Recognition of petroleum-bearing traps by unusual isotopic compositions of
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Hill ,C., 1995, Sulfur redox reactions: hydrocarbons, native sulfur, Mississippi Valley-type deposits, and sulfuric acid
karst in the Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas. Sulfur redox reactions. Environmental Geology, v.25 (1)16-23.
Magaritz, M., Anderson, R,Y. Holser, W.T., Eric S. Saltzman, E.S., and Garber, J., 1983,
isotope shifts in the Late Permian of the Delaware Basin, Texas, precisely timed by varved sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 66 (12), 111–124.