PRESERVATION AND COLOR DIFFERENCES IN NUTTALLIDES UMBONIFERA
Abundant Nuttallides umbonifera (Cushman) in Ho-locene deep sea sediments of the western North Atlantic make them of great value for reconstructing deep sea paleo-environments. This species is particularly abun-dant in the high-deposition-rate sediments of the Lau-rentian Fan between Nova Scotia and...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1030.4333 2023-05-15T17:22:32+02:00 PRESERVATION AND COLOR DIFFERENCES IN NUTTALLIDES UMBONIFERA Mary R. Carman Lloyd D. Keigwin The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1030.4333 http://jfr.geoscienceworld.org/content/gsjfr/34/2/102.full.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1030.4333 http://jfr.geoscienceworld.org/content/gsjfr/34/2/102.full.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://jfr.geoscienceworld.org/content/gsjfr/34/2/102.full.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-10-30T00:11:27Z Abundant Nuttallides umbonifera (Cushman) in Ho-locene deep sea sediments of the western North Atlantic make them of great value for reconstructing deep sea paleo-environments. This species is particularly abun-dant in the high-deposition-rate sediments of the Lau-rentian Fan between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, where variations in test color came to our attention. Specimens ranged from a white, chalky appearance to a golden, translucent brown. Because we have conducted stable isotope studies using this species, we reasoned it is important to know the basis for the different colors. Living N. umbonifera are brown due to an internal, pig-mented, chitinous layer of the test. In the natural envi-ronment, tests could be etched by corrosive bottom wa-ters, or by corrosive pore waters on the millimeter to centimeter scale. By lightly subjecting brown specimens to dilute acid, we are able to etch and frost them until their tests appeared to lose their brown color and turn white. By measuring d13C and d18O on large individuals from the same sample, we show that, on average, there is no significant isotopic difference between the brown and white specimens. Thus, we rule out changing bottom water properties as the source of dissolution. Instead, it is likely that bioturbation creates local pockets of reduc-ing conditions which cause etching of some (but not all) specimens in a contemporaneous population. Text Newfoundland North Atlantic Unknown |
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Abundant Nuttallides umbonifera (Cushman) in Ho-locene deep sea sediments of the western North Atlantic make them of great value for reconstructing deep sea paleo-environments. This species is particularly abun-dant in the high-deposition-rate sediments of the Lau-rentian Fan between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, where variations in test color came to our attention. Specimens ranged from a white, chalky appearance to a golden, translucent brown. Because we have conducted stable isotope studies using this species, we reasoned it is important to know the basis for the different colors. Living N. umbonifera are brown due to an internal, pig-mented, chitinous layer of the test. In the natural envi-ronment, tests could be etched by corrosive bottom wa-ters, or by corrosive pore waters on the millimeter to centimeter scale. By lightly subjecting brown specimens to dilute acid, we are able to etch and frost them until their tests appeared to lose their brown color and turn white. By measuring d13C and d18O on large individuals from the same sample, we show that, on average, there is no significant isotopic difference between the brown and white specimens. Thus, we rule out changing bottom water properties as the source of dissolution. Instead, it is likely that bioturbation creates local pockets of reduc-ing conditions which cause etching of some (but not all) specimens in a contemporaneous population. |
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