Boron Isotopes: The Fifth Element

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This new volume on boron isotope geochemistry offers review chapters summarizing the cosmochemistry, high-temperature and low-temperature geochemistry, and marine chemistry of boron. It also covers theoretical aspects of B isotope fractionation, experiments and atomic modeling, as well as all aspects of boron isotope analyses in geologic materials using the full range of solutions and in-situ methods. The book provides guidance for researchers on the analytical and theoretical aspects, as well as introducing the various scientific applications and research fields in which boron isotopes currently play a major role. The last compendium to summarize the geochemistry of boron and address its isotope geochemistry was published over 20 years ago (Grew &Anovitz, 1996, MSA Review, Vol.33), and there have since been significant advances in analytical techniques, applications and scientific insights into the isotope geochemistry of boron. This volume in the “Advances in Isotope Geochemistry” series provides a valuable source for students and professionals alike, both as an introduction to a new field and as a reference in ongoing research. Chapters 5 and 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Front Matter ....Pages i-v Boron Isotopes in the Earth and Planetary Sciences—A Short History and Introduction (Horst R. Marschall, Gavin L. Foster)....Pages 1-11 Boron Isotope Analysis of Geological Materials (Gavin L Foster, Horst R Marschall, Martin R Palmer)....Pages 13-31 Boron Isotope Fractionation Among Vapor–Liquids–Solids–Melts: Experiments and Atomistic Modeling (Piotr M. Kowalski, Bernd Wunder)....Pages 33-69 Boron Incorporation into Marine CaCO3 (Oscar Branson)....Pages 71-105 Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera: Systematics, Biomineralisation, and CO2 Reconstruction (James W. B. Rae)....Pages 107-143 Boron Isotopic Systematics in Scleractinian Corals and the Role of pH Up-regulation (Malcolm T. McCulloch, Juan P. D’Olivo, James Falter, Lucy Georgiou, Michael Holcomb, Paolo Montagna et al.)....Pages 145-162 Boron in the Weathering Environment (Jérôme Gaillardet, Damien Lemarchand)....Pages 163-188 Boron Isotopes in the Ocean Floor Realm and the Mantle (Horst R. Marschall)....Pages 189-215 Boron Isotopes as a Tracer of Subduction Zone Processes (Jan C. M. De Hoog, Ivan P. Savov)....Pages 217-247 Boron Isotopes in the Continental Crust: Granites, Pegmatites, Felsic Volcanic Rocks, and Related Ore Deposits (Robert B. Trumbull, John F. Slack)....Pages 249-272 The Cosmochemistry of Boron Isotopes (Ming-Chang Liu, Marc Chaussidon)....Pages 273-289