Solar System History from Isotopic Signatures of Volatile Elements: Volume Resulting from an ISSI Workshop 14-18 January 2002, Bern, Switzerland / Edition 1

by R. Kallenbach, Thïrïse Encrenaz, Johannes Geiss, Konrad Mauersberger, Tobias Owen

Overview

This volume focuses on isotopic signatures of volatile elements as tracers for evolutionary processes during the formation of the Sun and the planets from an interstellar molecular cloud and, in turn, illuminates how the isotopic compositions of the present-day solar system objects have been established. The book is an integrated collection of articles by experts in planetary science, solar and plasma physics, astrophysics, mineralogy and chemistry that met for an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in January 2002. The authors present analyses of isotope abundance ratios for volatile elements in the sun, planets, satellites, comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles, as well as a review of isotopic ratios in star-forming interstellar clouds. This provides insight into the physical and chemical processes in the pre-solar molecular cloud that collapsed to form the Sun and the solar accretion disk. Furthermore, information is presented on dynamical processes and conditions inside this protoplanetary disk, in particular the degree of reprocessing of interstellar solid material, the formation of solids inside the disks, and the formation of terrestrial and giant planets and their satellites. Isotopic fractionation processes discussed in this book include chemical reactions such as ion-molecule and photochemical reactions, nuclear processes inside the sun and in its atmosphere, plasma processes, gravitational escape of gases from planetary atmospheres exposed to the solar wind and solar radiation, thermodynamic processes, a variety of accretion and adsorption processes and mixing of material from the interstellar environment with the material of the evolving solar system. The volume is intended to provide active researchers in the fields of planetary science and space physics with an up-to-date status report on the topic, and also to serve graduate students with introductory mater

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402011771
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/2003
Series:	Space Sciences Series of ISSI , #16
Edition description:	Reprinted from Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 106/1-4
Pages:	427
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Sun and Protosolar Nebula.- Isotopic Composition of H, He and Ne in the Proto solar Cloud.- Oxygen Isotopes in the Solar System.- Isotopes of Volatiles in Pre-solar Grains.- Atomic Deuterium/Hydrogen in the Galaxy.- Deuterium in Molecules of the Interstellar Medium.- Deuterium Fractionation in Interstellar Clouds.- The D/H Ratio in Chondrites.- Outer Solar System.- Evolution of the Protosolar Nebula and Formation of the Giant Planets.- Element Abundances and Isotope Ratios in the Giant Planets and Titan.- Isotopic Abundances in Comets.- Isotopic Signatures of Presolar Materials in Interplanetary Dust.- Earth, Terrestrial Planets, and Moon.- Nitrogen Isotopes on the Moon: Archives of the Solar and Planetary Contributions to the Inner Solar System.- Noble Gas Isotopes on the Moon.- On Noble Gas Processing in the Solar Accretion Disk.- Elemental and Isotopic Abundances of Carbon and Nitrogen in Meteorites.- Isotopic Criteria for Identification of Organic Carbon on Earth and Meteorites.- Isotopic Fractionation Processes.- Oxygen Isotope Processes and Transfer Reactions.- Isotopic Fractionation by Gravitational Escape.- Isotopic Fractionation by Ion-Molecule Reactions.- Isotopic Fractionation by Plasma Processes.- Working Group Reports.- Sun and Protosolar Nebula.- Isotopic Signatures of Volatile Elements in Terrestrial Planets.- Epilogue.- List of Acronyms.