Obtaining oxygen stable isotope ratios (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Obtaining oxygen stable isotope ratios

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After chemical preparation and purification, very small samples from animal teeth are loaded into the magazine of an isotope ratio mass spectrometer to obtain oxygen stable isotope ratios, which yield information about past climates that animals lived in.

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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