Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration
Despite a growing body of work that uses diatom delta Si-30 to reconstruct past changes in silicic acid utilisation, few studies have focused on calibrating core top data with modern oceanographic conditions. In this study, a microfiltration technique is used to divide Southern Ocean core top silica...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:c92370c 2023-05-15T18:24:42+02:00 Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration Egan, Katherine E. Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. Leng, Melanie J. Hendry, Katharine R. Hermoso, Michael Sloane, Hilary J. Bostock, Helen Halliday, Alex N. 2012-11-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:c92370c eng eng Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.002 issn:0016-7037 issn:1872-9533 orcid:0000-0002-8903-8958 NE/F005296/1 AFI4-02 Biogenic Silica Stable-Isotopes Marine Diatom Si Isotope Surface Oxygen Fractionation Dissolution Separation Temperature Journal Article 2012 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.002 2020-08-25T06:03:03Z Despite a growing body of work that uses diatom delta Si-30 to reconstruct past changes in silicic acid utilisation, few studies have focused on calibrating core top data with modern oceanographic conditions. In this study, a microfiltration technique is used to divide Southern Ocean core top silica into narrow size ranges, separating components such as radiolaria, sponge spicules and clay minerals from diatoms. Silicon isotope analysis of these components demonstrates that inclusion of small amounts of non-diatom material can significantly offset the measured from the true diatom delta Si-30. Once the correct size fraction is selected (generally 2-20 mu m), diatom delta Si-30 shows a strong negative correlation with surface water silicic acid concentration (R-2 = 0.92), highly supportive of the qualitative use of diatom delta Si-30 as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation. The core top diatom delta Si-30 matches well with mixed layer filtered diatom delta Si-30 from published in situ studies, suggesting little to no effect of either dissolution on export through the water column, or early diagenesis, on diatom delta Si-30 in sediments from the Southern Ocean. However, the core top diatom delta Si-30 shows a poor fit to simple Rayleigh or steady state models of the Southern Ocean when a single source term is used. The data can instead be described by these models only when variations in the initial conditions of upwelled silicic acid concentration and delta Si-30 are taken into account, a caveat which may introduce some error into quantitative reconstructions of past silicic acid utilisation from diatom delta Si-30. Crown copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Southern Ocean Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 96 174 192 |
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Biogenic Silica Stable-Isotopes Marine Diatom Si Isotope Surface Oxygen Fractionation Dissolution Separation Temperature Egan, Katherine E. Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. Leng, Melanie J. Hendry, Katharine R. Hermoso, Michael Sloane, Hilary J. Bostock, Helen Halliday, Alex N. Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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Despite a growing body of work that uses diatom delta Si-30 to reconstruct past changes in silicic acid utilisation, few studies have focused on calibrating core top data with modern oceanographic conditions. In this study, a microfiltration technique is used to divide Southern Ocean core top silica into narrow size ranges, separating components such as radiolaria, sponge spicules and clay minerals from diatoms. Silicon isotope analysis of these components demonstrates that inclusion of small amounts of non-diatom material can significantly offset the measured from the true diatom delta Si-30. Once the correct size fraction is selected (generally 2-20 mu m), diatom delta Si-30 shows a strong negative correlation with surface water silicic acid concentration (R-2 = 0.92), highly supportive of the qualitative use of diatom delta Si-30 as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation. The core top diatom delta Si-30 matches well with mixed layer filtered diatom delta Si-30 from published in situ studies, suggesting little to no effect of either dissolution on export through the water column, or early diagenesis, on diatom delta Si-30 in sediments from the Southern Ocean. However, the core top diatom delta Si-30 shows a poor fit to simple Rayleigh or steady state models of the Southern Ocean when a single source term is used. The data can instead be described by these models only when variations in the initial conditions of upwelled silicic acid concentration and delta Si-30 are taken into account, a caveat which may introduce some error into quantitative reconstructions of past silicic acid utilisation from diatom delta Si-30. Crown copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Egan, Katherine E. Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. Leng, Melanie J. Hendry, Katharine R. Hermoso, Michael Sloane, Hilary J. Bostock, Helen Halliday, Alex N. |
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Egan, Katherine E. Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. Leng, Melanie J. Hendry, Katharine R. Hermoso, Michael Sloane, Hilary J. Bostock, Helen Halliday, Alex N. |
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Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a Southern Ocean core top calibration |
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diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a southern ocean core top calibration |
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