Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-331-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-331-2018
Research article
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16 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 16 Jan 2018

Mn∕Ca intra- and inter-test variability in the benthic foraminifer Ammonia tepida

Jassin Petersen, Christine Barras, Antoine Bézos, Carole La, Lennart J. de Nooijer, Filip J. R. Meysman, Aurélia Mouret, Caroline P. Slomp, and Frans J. Jorissen

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In Lake Grevelingen, a coastal ecosystem, foraminifera experience important temporal variations in oxygen concentration and in pore water manganese. The high resolution of LA-ICP-MS allows us to analyse the chambers of foraminiferal shells separately and to obtain signals from a series of calcification events. We estimate the variability in Mn/Ca observed within single shells due to biomineralization and show that a substantial part of the signal is related to environmental variability.
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