Isotope Geochemistry: Latest Developments and Applications for Geosciences

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in analytical techniques and our understanding of isotopic fractionations in nature have made isotope geochemistry one of the most important fields in the earth sciences, impacting virtually every aspect of it, from the formation of the solar system to mantle dynamics and human perturbances of the carbon cycle. Geochronology has acquired a wealth of new tools that, particularly when combined with stable and radiogenic isotope analysis, are unraveling the history of Earth with detail and accuracy that were unthinkable a few decades ago. Stable isotope analysis, once limited to a few light elements in materials from the Earth’s surface, now encompasses the entire periodic table and samples from the stratosphere to the deep mantle.

The goal of this Special Issue is to assemble papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide an overview of recent developments in isotope geochemistry in all aspects of geosciences. In particular, we invite papers on novel techniques of isotopic analysis, new theoretical insights and computational approaches to stable isotope fractionations, new approaches and techniques in geochronology and thermochronology, new insights and approaches to understanding solar system formation, evolution of the Earth’s crust and mantle surficial processes, evolution of life, including human evolution, and human impacts on the natural world through radiogenic and stable isotope analyses.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Advantages of isotope ratio analysis;
• Advances in the prediction of stable isotope fractionations;
• Advances in our understanding of crust and mantle evolution through radiogenic and stable isotope analysis;
• Advances in our understanding of critical zone processes, including Earth’s climate and its history and human impact on it;
• Advances in solar system formation and synthesis of the elements that compose it.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Prof. Dr. William M. White
Guest Editor

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• isotope geochemistry
• geochronology
• isotope analysis
• crust–mantle evolution
• critical zone processes