scholarly journals Temperature dependence of oxygen isotope fractionation in coccolith calcite: A culture and core top calibration of the genus Calcidiscus

2013 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 264-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaël Candelier ◽  
Fabrice Minoletti ◽  
Ian Probert ◽  
Michaël Hermoso
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation

scholarly journals Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Lombino ◽  
Tim Atkinson ◽  
Stephen J. Brooks ◽  
Darren R. Gröcke ◽  
Jonathan Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Oxygen Isotopes ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Chironomid Larvae ◽  
Increasing Temperature ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractOxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between cuticle and water ($$\upalpha_{\text{cuticle}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α cuticle - H 2 O ) is independent of temperature. We cultured chironomid larvae in the laboratory with labelled oxygen-isotope water and across a range of closely controlled temperatures from 5 to 25 °C in order to test the hypothesis that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between chironomid head capsules and water ($$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O ) is independent of temperature. Results indicate that the hypothesis can be rejected, and that $$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O decreases with increasing temperature. The scatter in the data suggests that further experiments are needed to verify the relationship. However, these results indicate that temperature-dependence of $$\upalpha_{\text{chironomid}-\text{H}_{2}\text{O}}$$ α chironomid - H 2 O should be considered when chironomid δ18O is used as a paleoenvironmental proxy, especially in cases where data from chironomids are combined with oxygen-isotope values from other materials for which fractionation is temperature dependent, such as calcite, in order to derive reconstructions of past water temperature.

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