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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3791-2022
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Research article
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22 Aug 2022
Research article |
| 22 Aug 2022
| 22 Aug 2022
Experimental burial diagenesis of aragonitic biocarbonates: from organic matter loss to abiogenic calcite formation
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
María Simonet Roda
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 80333, Germany
Martina Greiner
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 80333, Germany
Erika Griesshaber
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 80333, Germany
Nelson A. Lagos
Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático, Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile
Sabino Veintemillas-Verdaguer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM, CSIC), Madrid, 28049, Spain
José Manuel Astilleros
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO), (UCM, CSIC), Madrid, 28040, Spain
Lurdes Fernández-Díaz
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO), (UCM, CSIC), Madrid, 28040, Spain
Wolfgang W. Schmahl
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 80333, Germany
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Aragonitic skeletons are employed to decipher past climate dynamics and environmental change. Unfortunately, the information that these skeletons keep can be destroyed during diagenesis. In this work, we study the first changes undergone by aragonitic skeletons upon hydrothermal alteration. We observe that major changes occur from the very beginning of the alteration, even without mineralogical changes. These results have major implications for the use of these archives to understand the past.
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