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Iron Geochemistry: An Isotopic Perspective

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Iron has long been of great interest to geochemists given its high abundance and sensitivity to redox changes. Our goal in this chapter is to acquaint the reader with key concepts of Fe geochemistry and isotope geochemistry as a foundation for later chapters. Our short review of Fe geochemistry in Sect. 1.1 focuses on redox changes because these are responsible for some of the largest Fe isotope variations found in natural samples.

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  1. Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Clark Johnson & Brian Beard

  2. Institute of Mineralogy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Stefan Weyer

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Johnson, C., Beard, B., Weyer, S. (2020). Introduction and Overview. In: Iron Geochemistry: An Isotopic Perspective. Advances in Isotope Geochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33828-2_1

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