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This is an opportunity for me to advertize Robert Criss book, "Principles
of Stable Isotope Distribution". Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195117751.
This is a great text that covers everything in Faure (at least, everything
to do with light stable isotopes) with a lot more attention to basic
principles, discussion of molecular physics, etc. I plan to use this is
isotope classes I teach in the future, including those that include
systems such as Rb/Sr that Criss does not discuss. Just an example: I
took a long day to go through the detailed development of isotope
fractionation and the meteoric water line / temperature relationship from
first principles (thermodynamics, etc.). I wanted to make sure I had
everything absolutely clear for a class I'm teaching. Only to find a
couple of weeks later that Criss' book does it very elegantly and would
have saved me some time. This is the clearest discussion of the subject I
have seen. There are a lot of other gems in this book as well. I cannot
recommend it more highly (I must note there is a bit of a diatribe against
"global change researchers that don't know any mathematics" that could
have been left out of the introduction. Please ignore this, because it is
a truly great text).
Eric Steig
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