Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2819-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2819-2018
Reviews and syntheses
 | 
09 May 2018
Reviews and syntheses |  | 09 May 2018

Reviews and syntheses: Revisiting the boron systematics of aragonite and their application to coral calcification

Thomas M. DeCarlo, Michael Holcomb, and Malcolm T. McCulloch

Related authors

Coral calcifying fluid aragonite saturation states derived from Raman spectroscopy
Thomas M. DeCarlo, Juan P. D'Olivo, Taryn Foster, Michael Holcomb, Thomas Becker, and Malcolm T. McCulloch
Biogeosciences, 14, 5253–5269, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5253-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5253-2017, 2017
Short summary

Related subject area

Paleobiogeoscience: Proxy use, Development & Validation
Biomarker characterization of the North Water Polynya, Baffin Bay: implications for local sea ice and temperature proxies
David J. Harning, Brooke Holman, Lineke Woelders, Anne E. Jennings, and Julio Sepúlveda
Biogeosciences, 20, 229–249, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-229-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-229-2023, 2023
Short summary
Technical note: No impact of alkenone extraction on foraminiferal stable isotope, trace element and boron isotope geochemistry
Jessica G. M. Crumpton-Banks, Thomas Tanner, Ivan Hernández Almeida, James W. B. Rae, and Heather Stoll
Biogeosciences, 19, 5633–5644, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5633-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-5633-2022, 2022
Short summary
Experimental burial diagenesis of aragonitic biocarbonates: from organic matter loss to abiogenic calcite formation
Pablo Forjanes, María Simonet Roda, Martina Greiner, Erika Griesshaber, Nelson A. Lagos, Sabino Veintemillas-Verdaguer, José Manuel Astilleros, Lurdes Fernández-Díaz, and Wolfgang W. Schmahl
Biogeosciences, 19, 3791–3823, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3791-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3791-2022, 2022
Short summary
A modern snapshot of the isotopic composition of lacustrine biogenic carbonates – records of seasonal water temperature variability
Inga Labuhn, Franziska Tell, Ulrich von Grafenstein, Dan Hammarlund, Henning Kuhnert, and Bénédicte Minster
Biogeosciences, 19, 2759–2777, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2759-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2759-2022, 2022
Short summary
Performance of temperature and productivity proxies based on long-chain alkane-1, mid-chain diols at test: a 5-year sediment trap record from the Mauritanian upwelling
Gerard J. M. Versteegh, Karin A. F. Zonneveld, Jens Hefter, Oscar E. Romero, Gerhard Fischer, and Gesine Mollenhauer
Biogeosciences, 19, 1587–1610, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1587-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1587-2022, 2022
Short summary

Cited articles

Adkins, J. F., Boyle, E. A., Curry, W. B., and Lutringer, A.: Stable isotopes in deep-sea corals and a new mechanism for “vital effects”, Geochim. Cosmochim. Ac., 67, 1129–1143, 2003. a, b, c
Al-Horani, F. A., Al-Moghrabi, S. M., and De Beer, D.: The mechanism of calcification and its relation to photosynthesis and respiration in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis, Mar. Biol., 142, 419–426, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-002-0981-8, 2003. a, b
Allen, K. A. and Hönisch, B.: The planktic foraminiferal B∕Ca proxy for seawater carbonate chemistry: A critical evaluation, Earth Planet. Sc. Lett., 345, 203–211, 2012. a
Allison, N.: Reconstructing coral calcification fluid dissolved inorganic carbon chemistry from skeletal boron: An exploration of potential controls on coral aragonite B∕Ca, Heliyon, 3, e00387, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00387, 2017. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, aa, ab, ac, ad
Allison, N., Cohen, I., Finch, A. A., Erez, J., and Tudhope, A. W.: Corals concentrate dissolved inorganic carbon to facilitate calcification, Nat. Commun., 5, 5741, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6741, 2014. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h
Download

The requested paper has a corresponding corrigendum published. Please read the corrigendum first before downloading the article.

Short summary
Understanding the mechanisms of coral calcification is limited by the isolation of the calcifying environment. The boron systematics (B / Ca and δ11B) of aragonite have recently been developed as a proxy for the carbonate chemistry of the calcifying fluid, but a variety of approaches have been utilized. We assess the available experimental B / Ca partitioning data and present a computer code for deriving calcifying fluid carbonate chemistry from the boron systematics of coral skeletons.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint