Instrument: Elemental Analyzer

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(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB01/)
Instrument Description:

Instruments that quantify carbon, nitrogen and sometimes other elements by combusting the sample at very high temperature and assaying the resulting gaseous oxides. Usually used for samples including organic material.

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These samples were analyzed for bulk delta-13C and delta-15N values in the Stable Isotope Lab at University of California at Santa Cruz on a EA 1108 elemental analyzer (Carlo Erba, Milan, Italy) coupled to a Thermo Finnigan DeltaPlus XP isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, Bremen, Germany).