Journal article
Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of deer bones
Abstract
Variations of δ18O of bone phosphate (δp) of white tailed deer were studied in samples with wide geographic distribution in North America. Bones from the same locality have similar isotopic values, and the difference between specimens (0.4‰) is not large relative to the measurement error (0.3‰). The total range of δp values is about 12‰. This indicates that deer use water from a relatively small area, and thus their δp indicates local …
Authors
Luz B; Cormie AB; Schwarcz HP
Journal
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1723–1728
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 1990
DOI
10.1016/0016-7037(90)90403-8
ISSN
0016-7037