Calcium isotope fractionation in modern scleractinian corals

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Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006gecoa..70.4452b&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 70, Issue 17, p. 4452-4462.

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The 44Ca/40Ca ratios of cultured (Acropora sp.) and open ocean (Pavona clavus, Porites sp.) tropical reef corals are positively correlated with growth temperature. The slope of the temperature fractionation relation is similar to inorganic aragonite precipitates. However, δ44/40Ca of the coral aragonite is offset from inorganic and sclerosponge aragonite by about +0.5‰. This offset can neither be explained by the very fast, biologically controlled calcification of scleractinian corals, nor as a consequence of calcification from a partly closed volume of fluid. As corals actively transport calcium through several cell layers to the site of calcification, the most likely explanation for the offset is a biologically induced fractionation. Our results indicate a limited use of Ca isotopes in scleractinian corals as temperature proxy.

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