Authors’ Contributions:
RDD conceived the scientific problem and its importance for isotope tagging. AG carried out non-linear regression analyses of the dataset. BK and PN arranged the sampling at Roorkee and Hyderabad respectively. VP was responsible for processing the samples.RDD and AG drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed in finalizing the manuscript.

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