Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Coral skeletal geochemistry as a monitor of inshore water quality

N Saha, GE Webb, JX Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

Interlaboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements

EC Hathorne, A Gagnon, T Felis… - Geochemistry …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Sr/Ca ratio of coral aragonite is used to reconstruct past sea surface temperature (SST).
Twenty‐one laboratories took part in an interlaboratory study of coral Sr/Ca measurements …

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

PAGES Hydro2k Consortium - Climate of the Past, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Water availability is fundamental to societies and ecosystems, but our understanding of
variations in hydroclimate (including extreme events, flooding, and decadal periods of …

Li/Mg systematics in scleractinian corals: Calibration of the thermometer

P Montagna, M McCulloch, E Douville… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
We show that the Li/Mg systematics of a large suite of aragonitic coral skeletons,
representing a wide range of species inhabiting disparate environments, provides a robust …

Reconstructing the lithium isotopic composition (δ7Li) of seawater from shallow marine carbonate sediments

JG Murphy, ASC Ahm, PK Swart, JA Higgins - Geochimica et cosmochimica …, 2022 - Elsevier
Records of the lithium isotopic composition of seawater (δ 7 Li sw), preserved in the lithium
isotopic composition of shallow-marine carbonate sediments (δ 7 Li carb), provide …

Stable Sr-isotope, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral lophelia pertusa

J Raddatz, V Liebetrau, A Rüggeberg, E Hathorne… - Chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
The aragonitic skeletons of scleractinian cold-water corals can serve as valuable archives in
paleoceanographic studies. The potential of δ 88/86 Sr, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li …

[PDF][PDF] The effects of diagenesis on lithium isotope ratios of shallow marine carbonates

M Dellinger, DS Hardisty, NJ Planavsky… - American Journal of …, 2020 - ajsonline.org
In this study, we present new data on the δ^ 7^ Li values and Li/(Ca+ Mg) ratios of carbonate
cores from the Great Bahama Bank (Clino, Unda), a deep water core off of the bank top …

The Li isotope composition of marine biogenic carbonates: Patterns and mechanisms

M Dellinger, AJ West, G Paris, JF Adkins… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Little is known about the fractionation of Li isotopes during formation of biogenic carbonates,
which form the most promising geological archives of past seawater composition. Here we …

Clumped isotope composition of cold-water corals: A role for vital effects?

PT Spooner, W Guo, LF Robinson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The carbonate clumped isotope thermometer is a promising tool for determining past ocean
temperatures. It is based on the temperature dependence of rare isotopes 'clumping'into the …