Cleaning and pre-treatment procedures for biogenic and synthetic calcium carbonate powders for determination of elemental and boron isotopic compositions
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2015-01Author
Holcomb, Michael
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DeCarlo, Thomas M.
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Schoepf, Verena
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Dissard, Delphine
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Tanaka, Kiyoshi
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McCulloch, Malcolm
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7322As published
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.019Abstract
In preparing calcium carbonate samples for the measurement of various geochemical
proxies, it is often necessary to remove contaminating phases while leaving the phase of
interest altered as little as possible. Here we evaluate the effects of some common
cleaning protocols (rinsing (H2O), bleach (~3% NaOCl), hydrogen peroxide (30%),
sodium hydroxide (0.006 – 0.1 M NaOH), and acid leaching (0.05 N HNO3)) on the
elemental (Li, B, Na, Mg, Sr, Ba, Pb, and U) and boron isotope composition of both
biogenic and synthetic calcium carbonates formed in marine environments.
In untreated samples, the presence of elevated concentrations of Na and Mg, the most
abundant cations in seawater, can be reduced with minimal cleaning (e.g. rinsing).
Cleaning protocols that cause partial dissolution are problematic, especially for samples
that are compositionally heterogeneous because the remaining sample may be biased
towards particular phases with distinctive elemental or isotopic compositions. We show
that the use of either acid or unbuffered hydrogen peroxide can lead to partial dissolution
which was associated with an increase in the U/Ca ratio of the remaining sample.
Bleaching or rinsing with water did not result in significant sample dissolution,
suggesting these cleaning techniques may be safely used on heterogeneous samples.
Cleaning treatments, other than those resulting in significant dissolution of heterogeneous
samples, had no significant effect on δ11B, suggesting that boron isotopes are generally
robust to the effects of sample pre-treatment.
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Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Chemical Geology 398 (2015): 11-21, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.019.
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Preprint: Holcomb, Michael, DeCarlo, Thomas M., Schoepf, Verena, Dissard, Delphine, Tanaka, Kiyoshi, McCulloch, Malcolm, "Cleaning and pre-treatment procedures for biogenic and synthetic calcium carbonate powders for determination of elemental and boron isotopic compositions", 2015-01, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.01.019, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7322Related items
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