Solar System History from Isotopic Signatures of Volatile Elements: Volume Resulting from an ISSI Workshop 14–18 January 2002, Bern, Switzerland (Space Sciences Series of ISSI Book 16)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Isotopic Composition of H, He and Ne in the Protosolar Cloud....Pages 3-18 Oxygen Isotopes in the Solar System....Pages 19-32 Isotopes of Volatiles in Pre-Solar Grains....Pages 33-48 Atomic Deuterium/Hydrogen in the Galaxy....Pages 49-60 Deuterium in Molecules of the Interstellar Medium....Pages 61-72 Deuterium Fractionation in Interstellar Clouds....Pages 73-86 The D/H Ratio in Chondrites....Pages 87-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Evolution of the Protosolar Nebula and Formation of the Giant Planets....Pages 105-120 Element Abundances and Isotope Ratios in the Giant Planets and Titan....Pages 121-138 Isotopic Abundances in Comets....Pages 139-154 Isotopic Signatures of Presolar Materials in Interplanetary Dust....Pages 155-172 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Nitrogen Isotopes on the Moon: Archives of the Solar and Planetary Contributions to the Inner Solar System....Pages 175-196 Noble Gas Isotopes on the Moon....Pages 197-210 On Noble Gas Processing in the Solar Accretion Disk....Pages 211-230 Elemental and Isotopic Abundances of Carbon and Nitrogen in Meteorites....Pages 231-248 Isotopic Criteria for Identification of Organic Carbon on Earth and Meteorites....Pages 249-262 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Oxygen Isotope Processes and Transfer Reactions....Pages 265-279 Isotopic Fractionation by Gravitational Escape....Pages 281-291 Isotopic Fractionation by Ion-Molecule Reactions....Pages 293-304 Isotopic Fractionation by Plasma Processes....Pages 305-316 Front Matter....Pages 317-317 Sun and Protosolar Nebula....Pages 319-376 Isotopic Signatures of Volatiles in Terrestrial Planets....Pages 377-410 Front Matter....Pages 411-411 Glossary....Pages 413-422 Back Matter....Pages 423-426 Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 14-18 January 2002, Bern, Switzerland