Barium partitioning in coccoliths of Emiliania huxleyi

Langer, Gerald and Nehrke, Gernot and Thoms, Silke and Stoll, Heather (2009) Barium partitioning in coccoliths of Emiliania huxleyi. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (10). pp. 2899-2906. DOI 10.2118/125588-MS

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Abstract

The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi was grown in seawater under different Ba concentrations. The relationship of coccolith Ba/Ca ratio and seawater Ba/Ca ratio was found to be linear. The linear regression yields the apparent Ba exchange coefficient of 0.10. Our data support a recently proposed generic model (Langer G., Gussone N., Nehrke G., Riebesell U., Eisenhauer A., Kuhnert H., Rost B., Trimborn S., and Thoms S. (2006) Coccolith strontium to calcium ratios in Emiliania huxleyi: the dependence on seawater strontium and calcium concentrations. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51, 310–320.) developed for explaining apparent exchange coefficients of metabolically inert divalent trace metals, such as Sr, in E. huxleyi. This model represents the first approach combining cell physiological processes and data from inorganic precipitation experiments, which quantitatively explains coccolith apparent Sr and Ba exchange coefficients.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	NILAREP
Subjects:	01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems
Divisions:	01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems
Journal or Publication Title:	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Volume:	73
Page Range:	pp. 2899-2906
Identification Number:	10.2118/125588-MS
Depositing User:	Sarah Humbert
Date Deposited:	05 May 2012 11:43
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2013 10:04
URI:	http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/id/eprint/2503

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