Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Stable isotope analysis suggests that, before Roman aqueducts, residents of the city may have soaked in dirty water ...

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

Hydrocarbons, which are an essential component of crude oil and natural gas, form under pressure and high temperatures in the deep ocean floor. In the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California, ...

Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war, 1,400 years ago Date: December 11, 2019 Source: University of Bonn Summary: Maya archaeologists found the bones of about 20 people at a water reservoir in ...

Could the oldest rocks under our feet be the remains of a planet that is now extinct? This is the kind of question that geochemists love. And it seems that the pieces may have fallen together for the ...

This study is undertaken by the research teams led by Prof. Hu Yaowu from the Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology and Institute of Archaeological Science at the Fudan University, and led by ...

Besides honey, stable isotope techniques are also used to verify the authenticity and origin of products such as edible bird’s nests, coffee, beef, rice, Harumanis mangoes, and cocoa beans, and can ...

The isotopic compositions of hydrocarbon compounds are like a fingerprint. They can clearly indicate the way in which hydrocarbons like methane, ethane, propane, butane and pentane are formed. When ...