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Reviews and syntheses: Revisiting the boron systematics of aragonite and their application to coral calcification
Thomas M. DeCarlo
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Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
Michael Holcomb
Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
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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.
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