Frontiers of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

KW Huntington, SV Petersen - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Carbonate minerals contain stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen with different masses
whose abundances and bond arrangement are governed by thermodynamics. The clumped …

Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics

KW Huntington, AR Lechler - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the thermal history of minerals and fluids in continental environments is a
cornerstone of tectonics research. Paleotemperature constraints from carbonate clumped …

Dual clumped isotope thermometry resolves kinetic biases in carbonate formation temperatures

D Bajnai, W Guo, C Spötl, TB Coplen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Surface temperature is a fundamental parameter of Earth's climate. Its evolution through time
is commonly reconstructed using the oxygen isotope and the clumped isotope compositions …

Temperature dependence of oxygen-and clumped isotope fractionation in carbonates: a study of travertines and tufas in the 6–95 C temperature range

S Kele, SFM Breitenbach, E Capezzuoli… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Conventional carbonate–water oxygen isotope thermometry and the more recently
developed clumped isotope thermometer have been widely used for the reconstruction of …

Community software for challenging isotope analysis: First applications of 'Easotope'to clumped isotopes

CM John, D Bowen - Rapid Communications in Mass …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale The measurement of complex isotope systems, notably the multiply substituted
isotopologues of CO2 derived from carbonates, is challenging from a mass spectrometric …

Kinetic clumped isotope fractionation in the DIC-H2O-CO2 system: Patterns, controls, and implications

W Guo - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The carbonate clumped isotope thermometer is a powerful tool in paleoclimate research,
because it constrains carbonate formation temperature based on the extent of 13 C and 18 …

Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps

C Spötl, G Koltai, AH Jarosch, H Cheng - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The culmination of the glaciers in the European Alps during the Last Glacial Maximum
(LGM) is one of the most intensively studied paleoglaciological events, but its trigger and …

A paired apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater temperatures and isotopic composition

KD Bergmann, S Finnegan, R Creel, JM Eiler… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The secular increase in δ 18 O values of both calcitic and phosphatic marine fossils through
early Phanerozoic time suggests either that (1) early Paleozoic surface temperatures were …

Controls on the stable isotope compositions of travertine from hyperalkaline springs in Oman: Insights from clumped isotope measurements

ES Falk, W Guo, AN Paukert, JM Matter… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbonate formation at hyperalkaline springs is typical of serpentinization in peridotite
massifs worldwide. These travertines have long been known to exhibit large variations in …

What do we really know about early diagenesis of non-marine carbonates?

E De Boever, AT Brasier, A Foubert, S Kele - Sedimentary Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Non-marine carbonate rocks including cave, spring, stream, calcrete and lacustrine-
palustrine sediments, are susceptible to early diagenetic processes. These can profoundly …