Planktic foraminifera form their shells via metastable carbonate phases
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Jacob, Dorrit; Wirth, Richard; Agbaje, O. B. A.; Branson, Oscar; Eggins, Stephen
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The calcium carbonate shells of planktic foraminifera provide our most valuable geochemical archive of ocean surface conditions and climate spanning the last 100 million years, and play an important role in the ocean carbon cycle. These shells are preserved in marine sediments as calcite, the stable polymorph of calcium carbonate. Here, we show that shells of living planktic foraminifers Orbulina universa and Neogloboquadrina dutertrei originally form from the unstable calcium carbonate...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/218314 |
Source: | Nature Communications |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-017-00955-0 |
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