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88 Sr/ 86 Sr fractionation and calcite accumulation rate in the Sea of Galilee.
Fruchter, Noa, Lazar, B., Nishri, A., Almogi-Labin, A., Eisenhauer, Anton , Be'eri Shlevin, Y. and Stein, M. (2017) 88 Sr/ 86 Sr fractionation and calcite accumulation rate in the Sea of Galilee. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 215 . pp. 17-32. DOI 10.1016/j.gca.2017.07.026.
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Abstract
This study used the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret, northern Israel) as a “natural laboratory” to investigate the fractionation of the stable Sr isotope ratio (88Sr/86Sr) during precipitation of inorganic (primary) calcite from the lake's water. It was found that the absolute value of the 88Sr/86Sr fractionation factor, Δ88/86Sr, increases as a function of calcite accumulation rate (Δ88/86Sr [‰] = −0.05 to 0.042·log(R) [μmol·m−2·d−1], where R is the accumulation rate). Furthermore, the 87Sr/86Sr and 88Sr/86Sr ratios in the freshwater and brines that enter the lake were used to calculate the contributions of these sources to the lake Sr budget. The 87Sr/86Sr and 88Sr/86Sr ratios were measured in primary calcite, aragonite shells of live Melanopsis, lake water and various water sources to the lake. While the lake's 87Sr/86Sr ratios are determined by the mixture of freshwater of the Jordan River and saline springs, the 88Sr/86Sr ratios of the lake reflect a more complex mass balance that includes the effect of isotopic fractionation associated with the precipitation of primary calcite. Data analysis suggests that long-term accumulation of inorganic calcite depleted in the heavy isotope 88Sr, results in an increase of the δ88/86Sr value of the lake water by 0.05‰. In contrast to the primary inorganic calcite, biogenic aragonite of the Melanopsis shells show a rather constant 88Sr/86Sr water-CaCO3 fractionation of Δ88/86Sr = −0.21‰. Similar Δ88/86Sr values were reported for the precipitation of coralline and inorganic aragonite from seawater and the precipitation of inorganic calcite from various continental waters. The Δ88/86Sr value of inorganic calcite is modulated by the rate of carbonate precipitation, as noted above and shown by precipitation experiments. Massive precipitation of primary calcite with a wide spread of accumulation rates occurs during the spring phytoplankton bloom in Lake Kinneret. The bloom dictates the degree of calcite saturation in the lake and hence the stable Sr isotopic composition of the precipitating calcite. The correlation between Δ88Sr/86Sr and the calcite accumulation rate can be therefore used as a tool to reconstruct environmental and ecological variations in the historical lake by analyzing the 88Sr/86Sr ratio in the primary CaCO3 recovered from the lake's sedimentary archives.
Document Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | 87Sr/86Sr 88Sr/86Sr fractionation, Biologically induced mineralization, Calcite accumulation rates, Sea of Galilee |
Research affiliation: | OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-MG Marine Geosystems |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Access Journal?: | No |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Projects: | TRION |
Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2017 11:07 |
Last Modified: | 06 May 2020 09:03 |
URI: | https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/39227 |
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