کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6436931 1637618 2013 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Nitrogen isotopes in intra-crystal coralline aragonites
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
ایزوتوپ های نیتروژن در آراگونیت های کریستالی درون کریستالی
کلمات کلیدی
اسکلت مرجانی، ایزوتوپهای نیتروژن، پیلئوسن، روشهای گام به گام
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات ژئوشیمی و پترولوژی
چکیده انگلیسی


- δ15N in the Pliocene coral skeleton was deduced by stepwise heating methods.
- Pliocene coral δ15N was preserved in intra-crystalline aragonites.
- Pliocene coral δ15N was similar with the value of modern tropical corals.
- Stepwise heating methods are useful to demonstrate the preservation of coral δ15N.

To assess the preservation of the nitrogen isotope composition in reef corals, nitrogen isotopes in a well-preserved Pliocene fossil coral (located in the Tartaro formation on Luzon Island, Philippines (14°N, 121°E)) and in a modern coral (Kochi, Japan (32°N, 132°E)) were analysed using stepwise heating methods. The thermal decomposition of aragonite triggered the largest release of nitrogen at 700 °C for the modern coral and 550 °C for the Pliocene coral. The highest rate of nitrogen gas emission occurred at the aragonite collapse temperature, indicating that organic nitrogen was bound within the intra-crystals of coralline aragonites in both corals. After the aragonite collapsed in both corals, the nitrogen isotope ratios increased due to fractionation and then decreased to values similar to those observed in bulk samples of the modern (+ 10.1%) and Pliocene (+ 4.4%) corals. These results suggested that fresh organic nitrogen was released due to the decomposition of the internal skeletal structure at higher temperatures (900-1000 °C). Nitrogen isotopes in coral skeletons were preserved in intra-crystal aragonite, even in a Pliocene fossil, and stepwise heating methods were shown to be useful for determining the preservation of coralline nitrogen isotopes.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Chemical Geology - Volume 351, 2 August 2013, Pages 276-280
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