GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Neodymium isotopic composition and concentration in the western North Atlantic Ocean: Results from the GEOTRACES GA02 section

M Lambelet, T Van De Flierdt, K Crocket… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The neodymium (Nd) isotopic composition of seawater is commonly used as a proxy to study
past changes in the thermohaline circulation. The modern database for such reconstructions …

Neodymium in the oceans: a global database, a regional comparison and implications for palaeoceanographic research

T van de Flierdt, AM Griffiths… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The neodymium (Nd) isotopic composition of seawater has been used extensively to
reconstruct ocean circulation on a variety of time scales. However, dissolved neodymium …

Are clay minerals the primary control on the oceanic rare earth element budget?

AN Abbott, S Löhr, M Trethewy - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The rare earth elements (REEs) are an important tool for understanding biogeochemical
cycling and sedimentary processes in the global ocean. However, ambiguities in the marine …

The large-scale evolution of neodymium isotopic composition in the global modern and Holocene ocean revealed from seawater and archive data

K Tachikawa, T Arsouze, G Bayon, A Bory, C Colin… - Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Neodymium isotopic compositions (143 Nd/144 Nd or ε Nd) have been used as a
tracer of water masses and lithogenic inputs to the ocean. To further evaluate the …

Bottoms up: Sedimentary control of the deep North Pacific Ocean's εNd signature

AN Abbott, BA Haley, J McManus - Geology, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The ability to reconstruct past ocean currents is essential for determining ocean circulation's
role in global heat transport and climate change. Our understanding of the relationship …

Rare earth elements (REEs) in the tropical South Atlantic and quantitative deconvolution of their non-conservative behavior

XY Zheng, Y Plancherel, MA Saito, PM Scott… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents new concentration measurements of dissolved rare earth elements
(dREEs) along a full-depth east–west section across the tropical South Atlantic (∼ 12° S) …

Extracting foraminiferal seawater Nd isotope signatures from bulk deep sea sediment by chemical leaching

P Blaser, J Lippold, M Gutjahr, N Frank, JM Link… - Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
The seawater radiogenic neodymium (143 Nd/144 Nd) isotope signature is an invaluable
tool for the reconstruction of past deep water provenance. Sedimentary foraminifera or fish …

The impact of benthic processes on rare earth element and neodymium isotope distributions in the oceans

BA Haley, J Du, AN Abbott, J McManus - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neodymium (Nd) isotopes are considered a valuable tracer of modern and past ocean
circulation. However, the promise of Nd isotope as a water mass tracer is hindered because …