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Oxygen isotope composition of waters recorded in carbonates in strong clumped and oxygen isotopic disequilibrium

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Thaler, Caroline, Katz, Amandine, Bonifacie, Magali, Ménez, Bénédicte, Ader, Magali·2020·Biogeosciences

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Abstract. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, which are mainly retrieved from oxygen isotope (δ18O) and clumped isotope (Δ47) compositions of carbonate minerals, are compromised when carbonate crystallization occurs in isotopic disequilibrium. To date, knowledge of these common isotopic disequilibria, known as vital effects in biogenic carbonates, remains limited and the potential information recorded by δ18O and Δ47 offsets from isotopic equilibrium values is largely overlooked. Additionally, in carbonates formed in isotopic equilibrium, the use of the carbonate δ18O signature as a paleothermometer relies on our knowledge of the paleowaters' δ18O value, which is often assumed. Here, we report the largest Δ47 offsets observed to date (as much as −0.270 ‰), measured on microbial carbonates, that are strongly linked to carbonate δ18O offsets (−25 ‰) from equilibrium. These offsets are likely both related to the microorganism metabolic activity and yield identical erroneous temperature reconstructions. Unexpectedly, we show that the δ18O value of the water in which carbonates precipitated, as well as the water-carbonate δ18O fractionation dependence to temperature at equilibrium can be retrieved from these paired δ18O and Δ47 disequilibrium values measured in carbonates. The possibility to retrieve the δ18O value of paleowaters, sediments' interstitial waters or organisms' body water at the carbonate precipitation loci, even from carbonates formed in isotopic disequilibrium, opens long-awaited research avenues for both paleoenvironmental reconstructions and biomineralization studies.

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  • Published values for the ETH reference materials differ by up to 0.053‰ among laboratories.

    “Published values for the ETH reference materials, the only carbonates that have been recently measured in many different laboratories worldwide, differ by up to 0.053‰ (see Bernasconi et al., 2018; Thaler et al., 2020 for recent comparisons).”

    From InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards (2021) · cites this paper as Thaler et al., 2020

    Section 2.3 compares ETH reference-material values from this study with Bernasconi et al. (2018) and other published values, reporting systematic offsets. It does not give an offset of 0.053‰ or establish that ETH materials are the only carbonates recently measured in many laboratories. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • A similar positive offset of Δ47 compared to the values reported in Bernasconi et al. (2018) has also been reported in Fiebig et al. (2019), Bajnai et al. (2020), and Thaler et al. (2020).

    “A similar positive offset of Δ47 compared to the values reported in Bernasconi et al. (2018) has also been reported in Fiebig et al. (2019), Bajnai et al. (2020), and Thaler et al. (2020).”

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Authors
Thaler, C., Katz, A., Bonifacie, M., Ménez, B., & Ader, M.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
  • Katz, Amandine
  • Ader, Magali
Venue
Biogeosciences
Published
2020-04-03
Volume
17
Issue
7
Pages
1731-1744
ISSN
  • 1726-4170 (ISSN-L)
  • 1726-4189
OpenAlex
W2995627148
Cited by
18
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4
FWCI
1.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Biogeosciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-18-IDEX-0001)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Keywords
clumped isotopes, oxygen isotopes, isotopic disequilibrium, vital effects, microbial carbonates, paleothermometry, biomineralization, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, carbonate precipitation

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