Isotope Geochemistry

Isotope Geochemistry

William M.‎ White
(c) 2015

This text is based on a course in Isotope Geochemistry that I have taught at Cornell University
for the past 25 years.‎ It began as lecture notes, initially copied and handed out and later posted
electronically on the Internet.‎ The notes, and eventually the book draft, increased in length over
the years and the book is now longer than I imagined it would be.‎ That said, it remains an
incomplete treatment of the topic.‎ Although isotope geochemistry is a very small fraction of the
range of human knowledge, I have come to realize that no single person can know everything
about it, much less write it all down.‎ In part, this is because of the velocity at which the fild
has expanded and continued to expand.‎ When I began teaching this course, stable isotope
geochemistry was restricted to the fie “traditional” elements, H, C, N, O, and S;‎ today it
encompasses a fair fraction of the entire Periodic Table.‎ .‎.‎.‎.‎