Isoscapes
Isoscapes are spatially explicit predictions of elemental isotope ratios (δ) that are produced by executing process-level models of elemental isotope fractionation or distribution in a Geographic Information System (GIS). The word isoscape is derived from isotope landscape and was first coined by Jason B. West.[1][2][3] Isoscapes of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and strontium have been used to answer scientific or forensic questions regarding the sources, partitioning, or provenance of natural and synthetic materials or organisms via their isotopic signatures. These include questions about migration, Earth's element cycles, human water use, climate, archaeological reconstructions, forensics, and pollution.
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gollark: How do you encode in the type system "this is a vector of bees"?
gollark: Not much, no.
gollark: Which one?
gollark: It means you can't check things statically very well.
gollark: You cannot, say, implement a vector without unsafely doing `void*` everywhere and asking people to pass it sizeofs a lot.
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