A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements

JN Sutton, L André, D Cardinal, DJ Conley… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust and is an important
nutrient in the ocean. The global Si cycle plays a critical role in regulating primary …

Probing surface Earth reactive silica cycling using stable Si isotopes: Mass balance, fluxes, and deep time implications

S Rahman, EJ Trower - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Geological reservoir δ30Si values have increasingly been applied as paleoclimate and
paleoproductivity proxies. Many of these applications rely on the assumption that the surface …

Species-dependent silicon isotope fractionation by marine diatoms

JN Sutton, DE Varela, MA Brzezinski… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Fractionation of silicon (Si) isotopes was measured in seven species (nine strains) of polar
and sub-polar marine diatoms grown in semi-continuous unialgal cultures under optimal …

[HTML][HTML] Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand?

PJ Frings, VN Panizzo, JN Sutton, C Ehlert - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Silicon stable isotope ratios (expressed as δ 30 Si) in biogenic silica have been widely used
as a proxy for past and present biogeochemical cycling in both marine and lacustrine …

[HTML][HTML] Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: A Southern Ocean core top calibration

KE Egan, REM Rickaby, MJ Leng, KR Hendry… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of work that uses diatom δ30Si to reconstruct past changes in silicic
acid utilisation, few studies have focused on calibrating core top data with modern …

New constraints on the physical and biological controls on the silicon isotopic composition of the Arctic Ocean

MA Brzezinski, I Closset, JL Jones… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The silicon isotope composition of silicic acid, δ30Si (OH) 4, in the deep Arctic Ocean is
anomalously heavy compared to all other deep ocean basins. To further evaluate the …

The influence of water mass mixing on the dissolved Si isotope composition in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

P Grasse, C Ehlert, M Frank - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Silicon isotopes are a powerful tool to investigate the cycling of dissolved silicon (Si). In this
study the distribution of the Si isotope composition of dissolved silicic acid (δ 30 Si (OH) 4) …

The silicon isotope composition of Ethmodiscus rex laminated diatom mats from the tropical West Pacific: Implications for silicate cycling during the Last Glacial …

Z **ong, T Li, T Algeo, K Doering, M Frank… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The cause of massive blooms of Ethmodiscus rex laminated diatom mats (LDMs) in the
eastern Philippine Sea (EPS) during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains uncertain. In …

Enrichment of dissolved silica in the deep equatorial Pacific during the Eocene‐Oligocene

G Fontorbe, PJ Frings, CL De La Rocha… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon isotope ratios (expressed as δ30Si) in marine microfossils can provide insights into
silica cycling over geologic time. Here we used δ30Si of sponge spicules and radiolarian …

Deconvolving the controls on the deep ocean's silicon stable isotope distribution

GF De Souza, RD Slater, JP Dunne… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
We trace the marine biogeochemical silicon (Si) cycle using the stable isotope composition
of Si dissolved in seawater (expressed as δ 30 Si). Open ocean δ 30 Si observations …