The marine geochemistry of strontium

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A study of the path of strontium to and through the sea has been made with the aid of 150 new analyses of deep-sea cores for strontium and available data on the parts of the surficial Earth involved in the cycle. Most of the strontium supplied to the sea is from limestones through weathering and loss during diagenesis. The major part of the strontium and calcium reaching the sea is taken out in the deep sea at present. If the deep-sea calcium carbonate, with its associated strontium, is not effectively recycled, the strontium-calcium ratio of streams and the ocean would be expected to decrease with time. The apparently long time constant for change in the strontium-calcium ratios of streams coupled with the diagenetic alteration of possible records of ancient oceanic compositions in fossil shells prohibits a quantitative evaluation of the possibly small change in the strontium-calcium ratio in the oceans during the Phanerozoic.

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