Controls on the barium and strontium isotopic records of water chemistry preserved in freshwater bivalve shells

KS Dobra, RC Capo, BW Stewart… - … Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biogenic carbonates, including bivalve shells, record past environmental conditions, but
their interpretation requires understanding environmental and biological factors that affect …

[HTML][HTML] Can element chemical impurities in aragonitic shells of marine bivalves serve as proxies for environmental variability?

BR Schöne, S Marali, A Jantschke, R Mertz-Kraus… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In many biogenic and geogenic materials, ion impurities can provide serviceable proxies for
environmental conditions. However, the element/Ca ratios of bivalve shells are notoriously …

Sr/Ca in shells of laboratory-grown bivalves (Arctica islandica) serves as a proxy for water temperature – implications for (paleo)environmental research?

C Brosset, N Höche, R Witbaard, K Nishida… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Seawater temperature is an essential quantity for paleoclimatological and paleoecological
studies. A potential archive that can provide century-long, temporally well-constrained and …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating high-resolution Sr/Ca and ultrastructural analyses of the Tridacna squamosa shell to reconstruct sub-daily seawater temperature variation

C Brosset, C Liu, H Yang, H Yan, BR Schöne - Palaeogeography …, 2025 - Elsevier
Modern and fossil bivalves record environmental variability in their shells in the form of
chemical and ultrastructural properties as well as changes in growth rate. These proxy data …

A new method for amino acid geochronology of the shell of the bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica

MLG Conti, PG Butler, DJ Reynolds… - …, 2024 - gchron.copernicus.org
The bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica can live for hundreds of years, and its shell has
provided a valuable resource for sclerochronological studies and geochemical analyses for …

Disturbed by pH? Nacre tablet thickness of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) is a poor temperature proxy

CJ Gey, F Thielen, L Pfister, C Hissler… - Marine and …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context The ultrastructure of marine bivalve shells, specifically the thickness of nacre tablets
has recently been identified to be related to water temperature. Aims This study investigates …

Investigating the Relationship between Growth Rate, Shell Morphology, and Trace Element Composition of the Pacific Littleneck Clam (Leukoma staminea) …

HL Kempf, DA Gold, SJ Carlson - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to their robust preservation and widespread nature, marine bivalve shells are
increasingly used as informative, high-resolution records of past environmental conditions …

Coupling shell growth and geochemistry in giant clams to explore biomineralization pathways

K Marshall-Mills - 2024 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
Coral reefs are highly vulnerable to a multitude of global to local stressors associated with
human activity and are declining at an alarming rate. In recent years, nearshore turbid coral …