Experimental diagenesis: insights into aragonite to calcite transformation of <i>Arctica islandica</i> shells by hydrothermal treatment

Casella, Laura A.; Griesshaber, Erika; Yin, Xiaofei; Ziegler, Andreas; Mavromatis, Vasileios; Müller, Dirk; Ritter, Ann-Christine; Hippler, Dorothee; Harper, Elizabeth M.; Dietzel, Martin; Immenhauser, Adrian; Schöne, Bernd R.; Angiolini, Lucia; Schmahl, Wolfgang W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1461-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1461-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1461-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Research article

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24 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 24 Mar 2017

Experimental diagenesis: insights into aragonite to calcite transformation of Arctica islandica shells by hydrothermal treatment

Laura A. Casella, Erika Griesshaber, Xiaofei Yin, Andreas Ziegler, Vasileios Mavromatis, Dirk Müller, Ann-Christine Ritter, Dorothee Hippler, Elizabeth M. Harper, Martin Dietzel, Adrian Immenhauser, Bernd R. Schöne, Lucia Angiolini, and Wolfgang W. Schmahl

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RC1: 'Reviewer's comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Review and Discussion of Casella et al.'s Manuscript', Andreas Lüttge, 27 Oct 2016
RC3: 'Comments to authors', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Oct 2016
RC4: '[CdG] Article Review Completed', Anonymous Referee #4, 30 Oct 2016
AC1: 'Bg-2016-355', Laura A. Casella, 20 Dec 2016
AC2: 'Revised manuscript bg-2016-355', Laura A. Casella, 20 Dec 2016
AC3: 'Appendix Figures for bg-2016-355', Laura A. Casella, 20 Dec 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (26 Jan 2017) by Lennart de Nooijer

AR by Laura A. Casella on behalf of the Authors (02 Feb 2017) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (23 Feb 2017) by Lennart de Nooijer

Short summary

Mollusc shells record past environments. Fossil shell chemistry and microstructure change as metastable biogenic aragonite transforms to stable geogenic calcite. We simulated this alteration of Arctica islandica shells by hydrothermal treatments. Below 175 °C the shell aragonite survived for weeks. At 175 °C the replacement of the original material starts after 4 days and yields submillimetre-sized calcites preserving the macroscopic morphology as well as the original internal micromorphology.