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- Title: Isotope Geochemistry
- Author: William M. White
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Pages: 495
Over the past half century or so, isotope geochemistry has touched virtually every subfield of the earth sciences, from petroleum exploration topaleontology, climatology, and study of the Earth’s deep interior, the latter being one of my principal fields of interest. Consequently, nearly very earth scientist needs some exposure to, if not fluency in, isotope geochemistry. The intent of this book is to provide that fluency. It assumes a background knowledge of geochemistry more or less equivalent to that contained in my earlier book, Gecohemistry, also published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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 verything about it, much less write it all down.
I am grateful to the students in my courses for asking questions that inspired me to expanding my own range knowledge and expertise and also for pointing out the inevitable errors in drafts of the book. Once posted on the Internet, readers around the world found the lecture notes and provided feedback as well. I am grateful to them (there are two many to list here). I would, however, like to specifically thank Jeff Vervoort, Kyle Trostle, Dave Graham, and Bill McDonough for their critical reading of late drafts of parts of the text. And thanks too, to the fine people at Wiley-Blackwell who will be working in the coming months to transform this typescript to an actual book.