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Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 01;806:150565. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150565. Epub 2021 Sep 25.

Cadmium isotopes in Bahamas platform carbonates: A base for reconstruction of past surface water bioproductivity and their link with chromium isotopes.

The Science of the total environment

Jesper Allan Frederiksen, Robert Matthew Klaebe, Juraj Farkaš, Peter Koenraad Swart, Robert Frei

Affiliations

  1. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
  4. RSMAS/MGS, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  5. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34582867 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150565

Abstract

The distribution of cadmium (Cd) within the oceans strongly suggests that it is used as a nutrient by marine phytoplankton. Biologically induced removal of Cd from modern surface waters is accompanied by an isotopic fractionation leaving surface-waters enriched in isotopically heavy Cd. This first study focusses on tying the Cd isotopic record preserved in modern shallow platform carbonates of the Great Bahama Bank (GBB) to conditions in the upper water column, and provides a base for future studies aiming at reconstructing past bioproductivity levels in ancient ocean/basin surface waters. In addition, we compare δ

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Keywords: Cadmium isotopes; Carbonate platforms; Chromium isotopes; Diagenesis; Great Bahama Bank; Surface seawater bioproductivity

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that they could have appeared to influence the work reported in th

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