Non-traditional stable isotopes: retrospective and prospective

FZ Teng, N Dauphas… - Reviews in mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Traditional stable isotope geochemistry involves isotopes of light elements such as H, C, N,
O, and S, which are measured predominantly by gas-source mass spectrometry (Valley et al …

GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba

KK Mayfield, A Eisenhauer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Groundwater-derived solute fluxes to the ocean have long been assumed static and
subordinate to riverine fluxes, if not neglected entirely, in marine isotope budgets. Here we …

A productivity collapse to end Earth's Great Oxidation

MSW Hodgskiss, PW Crockford… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
It has been hypothesized that the overall size of—or efficiency of carbon export from—the
biosphere decreased at the end of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE)(ca. 2,400 to 2,050 Ma) …

[HTML][HTML] Barite formation in the ocean: Origin of amorphous and crystalline precipitates

F Martinez-Ruiz, A Paytan, MT Gonzalez-Muñoz… - Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ocean export production is a key constituent in the global carbon cycle impacting climate.
Past ocean export production is commonly estimated by means of barite and Barium …

Toward an improved understanding of the marine barium cycle and the application of marine barite as a paleoproductivity proxy

SC Carter, A Paytan, EM Griffith - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Marine barite (BaSO4) is a relatively ubiquitous, though minor, component of ocean
sediments. Modern studies of the accumulation of barite in ocean sediments have …

Barium stable isotopes in the global ocean: Tracer of Ba inputs and utilization

YT Hsieh, GM Henderson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Barium has been used as a biogeochemical tracer for alkalinity, productivity, and riverine
inputs in the ocean, but its oceanic cycle remains poorly constrained. Barium stable isotope …

Controls on the barium isotope compositions of marine sediments

L Bridgestock, YT Hsieh, D Porcelli, WB Homoky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The accumulation of barium (Ba) in marine sediments is considered to be a robust proxy for
export production, although this application can be limited by uncertainty in BaSO 4 …

Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

Barium-isotopic constraints on the origin of post-Marinoan barites

PW Crockford, BA Wing, A Paytan… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of triple oxygen isotope ratios in barite horizons within post-Marinoan cap
carbonates have provided some of the most compelling evidence that the Marinoan …