The Relative Abundances of Resolved 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D and Mechanisms Controlling Isotopic Bond Ordering in Abiotic and Biotic Methane Gases

Edward D Young1, Issaku E Kohl1, Barbara Sherwood Lollar2, Giuseppe Etiope3, Douglas Rumble4, Shuning Li5, Mojhgan A Haghnegahdar6, Edwin A Schauble1, Kaitlyn McCain1, Dionysis I Foustoukos4, Chelsea N Sutcliffe7, Oliver Warr8, Chris J. Ballentine9, Tullis C Onstott10, Hakan Hosgormez11, Anna Neubeck12, J.M. Marques13, Ileana M. Perez-Rodriguez14, Annette R Rowe15, Douglas LaRowe16, Cara Magnabosco17 and Taras Bryndzia18, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (4)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (7)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (8)University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (9)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (10)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (11)Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, (12)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (13)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (14)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (15)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (16)Southern Methodist University, Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (17)Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States, (18)Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston, TX, United States