STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS OF THE CARBOXYL CARBONS IN BONE COLLAGEN

Archaeometry ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. I. KEELING ◽  
E. NELSON ◽  
K. N. SLESSOR
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Stable Carbon Isotope ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Stable Carbon ◽  
Isotope Measurements

scholarly journals Source partitioning of atmospheric methane using stable carbon isotope measurements in the Reuss Valley, Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Stieger ◽  
Ines Bamberger ◽  
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf ◽  
Nina Buchmann ◽  
Werner Eugster
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Stable Carbon Isotope ◽  
Atmospheric Methane ◽  
Stable Carbon ◽  
Isotope Measurements ◽  
Source Partitioning

scholarly journals Consensus δ13C Values

Radiocarbon ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Burleigh ◽  
Keith Matthews ◽  
Morven Leese
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Stable Carbon Isotope ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Stable Carbon ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Animal Bone ◽  
The Mean

Selected stable carbon isotope measurements published in Radiocarbon over a 12-year period have been abstracted, plotted, and summarized, to give more reliable estimates of the mean value and range of δ13C for five classes of natural material (human bone collagen, non-human animal bone collagen, plant materials, wood, and charcoal), and to provide a firmer base line for stable carbon isotope dietary and environmental studies.

Geographic distribution of C3 and C4 grasses recorded from stable carbon isotope values of bone collagen of South Australian herbivores

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Donald Pate ◽  
Andrew H. Noble
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Stable Carbon Isotope ◽  
The State ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
C4 Grasses ◽  
Stable Carbon ◽  
North East ◽  
Quaternary Climate ◽  
Isotopic Analyses

Cortical bone samples were collected from marsupial and eutherian herbivores at five field sites along a 1275-km south–north transect from temperate coastal to arid interior South Australia in order to address variability in stable carbon isotope composition. Collection sites were located along the eastern border of the state. Mean annual rainfall along the transect ranges from 700–800 mm at coastal Mount Gambier to 150–175 mm at Cordillo Downs in the north-east corner of the state. Bone collagen carbon isotope values become more positive towards the arid north in relation to increasing quantities of C4 grasses. Thus, stable carbon isotope analysis of bone specimens provides a method to address dietary selection and dietary variability in Australian herbivores. In addition, isotopic analyses of archaeological and palaeontological bones and teeth can be used to address changes in Quaternary climate and vegetation distributions in Australia.

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