Assessment of purification and contamination correction methods for analysing the oxygen isotope composition from biogenic silica
Assessment of purification and contamination correction methods for analysing the oxygen isotope composition from biogenic silica
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用于分析生物二氧化硅氧同位素组成的纯化和污染校正方法的评估
DOI:
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.01.004
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发表时间:
2012
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Kemnitz
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作者:
Chapligin;Snyder;Kemnitz
Mineral particles and other contaminants cause a serious and undesirable shift in δ18O values of biogenic silica and should be removed prior to isotope analysis. This problem is particularly significant in the fraction containing clay particles and therefore the fraction <10μm is generally avoided. Here, we present an updated preparation protocol for the <10μm fraction based on known methods, developed using test material from short cores of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia. New contamination assessment and correction techniques are discussed. Best results (low initial weight/high precision and throughput rate) for the <10μm fraction were achieved using geochemical mass-balancing and determining the “percentage of contamination” by analysing the sample's and end-member's Al2O3with improved Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) protocols or by determining the factor for calculating the percentage of contamination from the Al2O3percentage of clay assemblages. Despite using small initial weights for ICP-OES (10mg) and EDS analysis (<0.5mg) a sufficiently high precision (for low Al2O3percentages between 0.1 and 1.5%) could be achieved. For the >10μm fraction, point-counting under the light microscope was the preferred option. The different size-fractions from Lake El'gygytgyn samples show a distinct and significantly different species composition (average counts: <10μm: >90% Cyclotella ocellata complex; >10μm: >60% Pliocaenicus seczkinae). Differences in the oxygen isotope composition of these different size fractions could be explained by a species-effect on the δ18O values. However, this species-effect disappeared after the correction (avg δ18O <10μm: 19.8±0.6‰; >10μm: 19.8±0.4‰). By comparing these δ18O values with additional recent water samples, an average 1000 ln α of 39.6‰ for Lake El'gygytgyn sub-recent diatoms was calculated. This “tool-kit” provides support for the presented improved contamination assessment and corrections and allows utilising smaller initial weight (app. 10mg) and small fractions (<10μm) for gaining corrected, higher resolution δ18O records.
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