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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 126, Issue -, Pages 411-421Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.11.006
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University
- Oliver Fund
- Vokes Fellowship at Tulane University
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Clumped isotope measurements can be used to exploit the paleoclimatic potential of pedogenic siderite (FeCO3); however, the applicability of this method is held back by the lack of clumped isotope calibrations of mineralogies other than calcite and aragonite. Here we present an inorganic calibration of siderites grown in the laboratory between 21 and 51 degrees C. Linear regression of Delta(47) values and temperature (10(6)/T-2, K) yields the following relationship (r(2) = 0.997): Delta(47-RF) = (0.0356 +/- 0.0018) x 10(6)/T-2 + (0.172 +/- 0.019) We demonstrate that this calibration is indistinguishable from calcite at current levels of analytical precision. Our observations suggest that there is likely no large systematic bias in the clumped isotope acid fractionation factors between the two different carbonate minerals. We also present clumped isotope measurements of a natural siderite collected from Holocene sediments of the Mississippi River Delta. We find that siderites record warm season marsh water temperatures instead of mean annual temperatures as it has long been presumed. This finding has important implications for the accuracy of siderite stable isotope and clumped isotope based climate reconstructions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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