Seasonal temperature changes obtained from carbonate clumped isotopes of annually laminated tufas from Japan: Discrepancy between natural and synthetic calcites
Seasonal temperature changes obtained from carbonate clumped isotopes of annually laminated tufas from Japan: Discrepancy between natural and synthetic calcites
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DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2018.10.016
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发表时间:
2019
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5
通讯作者:
H. Kato;Shota Amekawa;A. Kano;Taiki Mori;Y. Kuwahara;J. Quade
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H. Kato;Shota Amekawa;A. Kano;Taiki Mori;Y. Kuwahara;J. Quade
Carbonate clumped isotopes provide a novel paleo-thermometer that does not require knowledge of the isotopic compositions of environmental water. Despite considerable effort, there are substantial inter-laboratory disagreements in empirical calibrations between the abundance anomaly of the clumped isotopes (Δ 47) and absolute temperature, and discrepancies in paleo-temperature estimates from natural samples. In this study, clumped isotopes using two types of 17 O corrections were analyzed for two sample sets of synthetic calcites and tufas collected monthly from two sites in southwest Japan with known δ 18 O values and temperatures of parent water. These measurements form the basis for two new temperature calibrations of carbonate clumped isotopes, the first from our Kyushu University laboratory in Japan. The calcites synthesized at four different temperatures (2.9–61.0° C) yield a temperature-Δ 47 relationship of Δ 47= 0.0354±0.0013× 10 6/T 2+ 0.290±0.015 (R 2= 0.986), which is indistinguishable from the calibrations of other recent studies based on acid digestion experiments at high temperature (70–100° C). The Δ 47 thermometry for the natural tufa samples display the seasonal pattern of water temperature better than the δ 18 O thermometry. However, the Δ 47 values of the tufa samples deposited at temperatures ranging from 5.6 to 16.0° C were lower than the values expected from the calibration using synthetic calcites, thus providing another temperature calibration of Δ 47= 0.0336±0.0036× 10 6/T 2+ 0.301±0.048 (R 2= 0.735). Therefore, our results clearly identify a detectable, but fairly uniform, discrepancy in Δ 47-temperature calibration between synthetic calcite and natural samples (tufas). The amplitude of Δ 47 offset between the tufa and synthetic samples appears to be independent of the seasonal change in water temperature and the chemical properties of water, including pH, pCO 2, and precipitation rate of calcite. The lower Δ 47 values have been previously reported from other tufas and travertines, and therefore appear to be associated with processes inherent to tufas and travertines, such as CO 2 degassing. We also find that our results are insignificantly influenced by types of 17 O corrections and almost independent with bulk isotopic composition.