@Article{Herut_etal1993, author="Herut, B. and Starinsky, A. and Katz, A.", title="Strontium in rainwater from Israel: sources, isotopes and chemistry", journal="Earth and Planetary Science Letters", year="1993", publisher="Elsevier", volume="120", number="1-2", pages="77--84", abstract="Eighteen ram samples from Israel have been analyzed for their chemical composmon and S7Sr/S6Sr ratios The Sr-Isotoplc rahos lie In the range 0 7078 and 0 7092, and the Sr concentrations vary from 1 {\texttimes} 10 -4 to 9 x 10 4 meq Sr/l.Soluble salts in rainwater are inherited from three major natural sources, seaspray, Recent marine minerals and mineral dust eroded from rock outcrops and soft A mixing model is formulated to apply the chemical composmon of rain (CI and Sr 2+) and {\textasciitilde}ts isotopic 87Sr/S6Sr ratio, for the identification and est{\textasciitilde}mahon of the Sr sources.All the samples fall within the m{\textasciitilde}xing space predicted by the model for the three end members mentioned above The data indicate that the most important non-seaspray source contributing d{\textasciitilde}ssolved salts to the rams m Israel comprises a mixture of Senoman to Eocene chalk (and its weathering products) and Recent marine minerals, from local and imported sources.Most of the samples (67\%) contain 50\% or more non-seaspray Sr 0 e, Sr dissolved from dust or Recent marine minerals), whereas 56\% of the samples display 87Sr/86Sr ratios lower than 0 7090. The rest represent mixtures of seaspray and Recent marine minerals.", optnote="exported from refbase (http://www.uhydro.de/refbase/show.php?record=95), last updated on Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:26:08 +0200", opturl="sci-hub.se/10.1016/0012-821x(93)90024-4" }