Comparative clumped isotope temperature relationships in freshwater carbonates
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Abstract
Lacustrine, riverine and spring carbonates represent archives of terrestrial climates and their geochemistry has been used to study palaeoenvironments. Clumped isotope thermometry is an emerging tool that has been applied to freshwater carbonates. Limited work has been done to evaluate comparative relationships between clumped isotopes and temperature in different types of modern freshwater carbonates. This study assembles an extensive calibration data set with 135 samples of modern freshwater carbonates from 96 sites and constrains the relationship between independent observations of water temperature and the clumped isotopic composition of carbonates (denoted by Δ 47 ), including new measurements, and recalculates published data in accordance with current community‐defined standard values. For temperature reconstruction, the study reports a composite freshwater calibration and material‐specific calibrations for biogenic carbonates (freshwater gastropods and bivalves), fine‐grained carbonate (e.g. micrites), biologically mediated carbonates (microbialites and tufas) and travertines. Material‐specific calibration trends show a convergence of slopes that are in agreement with recently published syntheses, but statistically significant differences in intercepts occur between some materials (e.g. some biogenics, fine‐grained carbonates). These differences may arise due to unresolved seasonal biases, kinetic isotope effects and/or varying degrees of biological influence. The impact of different calibrations is shown through application to new data for glacial and deglacial age travertines from Austria and published data sets. While material‐specific calibrations may yield more accurate results for biogenic and fine‐grained carbonate samples, the use of material‐specific and the composite freshwater calibrations generally produces values within 1.0–1.5°C of each other, and typically fall within calibration uncertainty given limitations of precision.
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- Authors
- Arnold, A., Mering, J., Chari, L., Román‐Palacios, C., Li, H., Petrys, H., Mitsunaga, B., Elliott, B., Wilson, J., Lucarelli, J., Boch, R., Ibarra, D., Li, L., Fan, M., Kaufman, D., Cohen, A., Dunbar, R., Russell, J., Lalonde, S., Roy, P. D., Dietzel, M., Liu, X., Chang, F., Eagle, R. A., & Tripati, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Capital Normal University (CN)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Graz University of Technology (AT)
- Brown University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
- Northern Arizona University (US)
- Department of Earth System Science Stanford University Stanford California USA
- Université de Bretagne Occidentale (FR)
- Instituto de Geología (MX)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Arnold, Alexandrea
- Tripati, Aradhna
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Depositional Record
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2024-10-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 418-443
- ISSN
- 2055-4877 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4403200796
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 0.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- The Depositional Record (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1936715, 1352212)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DESC0010288)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Heising-Simons Foundation (2021-3137)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41572338)
- Basic Energy Sciences (DE‐FG0213ER16402)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Keywords
- clumped isotopes, clumped isotope thermometry, Δ47, temperature calibration, biogenic carbonates, freshwater snails, freshwater bivalves, travertine, lacustrine carbonates, microbialites, tufa, micrite, paleoclimate reconstruction
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