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Jun 1985
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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 49, Issue 6, pp.1327-1341
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Constant-temperature laboratory culture experiments of the planktonic foraminiferal species Globigerinoides sacculifer (Brady) suggest that the ratios of Li and Sr to Ca in the shells are a function of these ratios in the culture solutions. Mg / Ca and Na / Ca in the shells did not vary with changes of these ratios in the culture solution. These are the first direct determinations of the relationship between foraminiferal shell chemistry and solution composition. The possibility of temperature dependence for the minor elemental composition of foraminiferal shells was also investigated in the laboratory and by analysis of several planktonic and one benthic foraminiferal species from sediment trap and sediment core samples. The Sr / Ca , Mg / Ca , and Na / Ca ratios in the natural samples roughly correlate with calcification temperature, whereas differences in the Li/Ca ratios are small and not systematically related to temperature. However, laboratory culture experiments at 20°C and 30°C showed no variation in the Li / Ca , Sr / Ca , Mg / Ca , and Na / Ca ratios with calcification temperature for the planktonic foraminifera G. sacculifer and Orbulina universa . Therefore, observed differences in the Sr / Ca , Mg / Ca , and Na / Ca ratios for the sediment trap and core foraminiferal samples cannot be ascribed to direct effects of calcification temperature, but may be due to some other environmental factor which is correlated with temperature.
Bé Allan W. H.
Boyle Edward A.
Delaney Margaret Lois
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