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- Doguzhaeva, Larisa, et al.
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Embryonic shell structure of Early–Middle Jurassic belemnites, and its significance for belemnite expansion and diversification in the Jurassic.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Lethaia. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 0024-1164 .- 1502-3931. ; 47, s. 49-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Early Jurassic belemnites are of particular interest to the study of the evolution of skeletal morphology in Lower Carboniferous to the uppermost Cretaceous belemnoids, because they signal the beginning of a global Jurassic–Cretaceous expansion and diversification of belemnitids. We investigated potentially relevant, to this evolutionary pattern, shell features of Sinemurian–Bajocian Nannobelus, Parapassaloteuthis, Holcobelus and Pachybelemnopsis from the Paris Basin. Our analysis of morphological, ultrastructural and chemical traits of the earliest ontogenetic stages of the shell suggests that modified embryonic shell structure of Early–Middle Jurassic belemnites was a factor in their expansion and colonization of the pelagic zone and resulted in remarkable diversification of belemnites. Innovative traits of the embryonic shell of Sinemurian–Bajocian belemnites include: (1) an inorganic–organic primordial rostrum encapsulating the protoconch and the phragmocone, its non-biomineralized component, possibly chitin, is herein detected for the first time; (2) an organic rich closing membrane which was under formation. It was yet perforated and possessed a foramen; and (3) an organic rich pro-ostracum earlier documented in an embryonic shell of Pliensbachian Passaloteuthis. The inorganic–organic primordial rostrum tightly coating the protoconch and phragmocone supposedly enhanced protection, without increase in shell weight, of the Early Jurassic belemnites against explosion in deep water environment. This may have increased the depth and temperature ranges of hatching eggs, accelerated the adaptation of hatchlings to a nektonic mode of life andpromoted increasing diversity of belemnoids. This study supports the hypothesis thatbelemnite hatchlings were ‘a miniature of the adults’.
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- Grasse, Patricia, et al.
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GEOTRACES inter-calibration of the stable silicon isotope composition of dissolved silicic acid in seawater
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. - : Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). - 0267-9477 .- 1364-5544. ; 32:3, s. 562-578
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The first inter-calibration study of the stable silicon isotope composition of dissolved silicic acid in seawater, delta Si-30(OH)(4), is presented as a contribution to the international GEOTRACES program. Eleven laboratories from seven countries analyzed two seawater samples from the North Pacific subtropical gyre (Station ALOHA) collected at 300 m and at 1000 m water depth. Sampling depths were chosen to obtain samples with a relatively low (9 mmol L-1, 300 m) and a relatively high (113 mmol L-1, 1000 m) silicic acid concentration as sample preparation differs for low- and highconcentration samples. Data for the 1000 m water sample were not normally distributed so the median is used to represent the central tendency for the two samples. Median delta Si-30(OH)(4) values of +1.66& for the low-concentration sample and +1.25& for the high-concentration sample were obtained. Agreement among laboratories is overall considered very good; however, small but statistically significant differences among the mean isotope values obtained by different laboratories were detected, likely reflecting inter-laboratory differences in chemical preparation including pre-concentration and purification methods together with different volumes of seawater analyzed, and the use of different mass spectrometers including the Neptune MC-ICP-MS (Thermo Fisher (TM), Germany), the Nu Plasma MC-ICP-MS (Nu Instruments (TM), Wrexham, UK), and the Finnigan (TM) (now Thermo Fisher (TM), Germany) MAT 252 IRMS. Future studies analyzing delta Si-30(OH)(4) in seawater should also analyze and report values for these same two reference waters in order to facilitate comparison of data generated among and within laboratories over time.
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- Silva Garcia Nobre, Ines, et al.
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The Ninetyeast Ridge and its Relation to the Kerguelen, Amsterdam and St. Paul Hotspots in the Indian Ocean
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Petrology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0022-3530 .- 1460-2415. ; 54:6, s. 1177-1210
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Ninetyeast Ridge is an similar to 5500 km long, north-south-oriented, submarine volcanic ridge in the eastern Indian Ocean that formed from magmatism associated with the deep-seated Kerguelen mantle plume as the Indian plate drifted rapidly northward during the Late Cretaceous. Basalts recovered along the ridge have the characteristic Dupal geochemical signature of Indian Ocean basalts, but debate concerning the nature and number of components in their mantle source persists. New multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (Pb, Hf) and thermal ionization mass spectrometry (Sr, Nd) isotopic analyses were obtained for tholeiites representative of the similar to 180 m of basaltic basement recovered from three drill sites (Site 758, 82 Ma; Site 757, 58 Ma; Site 756, 43 Ma) along the Ninetyeast Ridge during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 121. No systematic isotopic variation is observed along the ridge, which is inconsistent with the hypothesis of an aging mantle plume origin for the ridge. The isotopic compositions are generally intermediate between those of the volcanic products of the Kerguelen and Amsterdam-St. Paul hotspots and define mixing trends between components with relatively enriched and depleted signatures. At least three, possibly four, source components are required to explain the observed isotopic variability along the Ninetyeast Ridge. The unradiogenic signatures of some Ninetyeast Ridge basalts (e.g. Sr-87/Sr-86 = 0 center dot 70381-0 center dot 70438) are not related to the source of Indian MORB and indicate the presence of a relatively depleted component in a deep mantle source. A similar source component is also identified in other Indian Ocean island basalts (e.g. Crozet, Reunion) not related to magmatic activity of the Kerguelen hotspot. The Pb-Hf-Sr-Nd isotopic compositions of the Ninetyeast Ridge basalts are consistent with the presence of a mixture of recycled sediments and lower continental crust together with altered oceanic crust in their mantle source, hence supporting a deep origin for the enriched Dupal signature encountered in ocean island basalts.
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