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Calcium isotope fractionation during microbially induced carbonate mineral precipitation

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Halloran, KH 
Lin, CY 

Abstract

We report the calcium isotope fractionation during the microbially-induced precipitation of calcium carbonate minerals in pure cultures of the marine sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio bizertensis. These data are used to explore how the calcium isotope fractionation factor during microbially-induced carbonate mineral precipitation differs from the better-constrained calcium isotope fractionation factors during biogenic or abiotic carbonate mineral precipitation. Bacterial growth was then modulated with antibiotics, and the evolution of δ44Ca in solution was monitored under different microbial growth rates. The faster the microbial growth rate, the larger the calcium isotope fractionation during carbonate mineral precipitation, ranging from Δ44Ca(s-f) between -1.07‰ and -0.48‰. The reported calcium isotope fractionation can help us understand the link between calcium isotope fractionation and microbial metabolism in carbonate minerals precipitated during sedimentary diagenesis.

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Keywords

37 Earth Sciences, 3703 Geochemistry, 3705 Geology

Journal Title

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Journal ISSN

0016-7037
1872-9533

Volume Title

277

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
European Research Council (307582)
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/R013519/1)
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S001344/1)
The work was supported by ERC 307582 StG (CARBONSINK) to AVT and NERC 700 NE/R013519/1 to HJB