Confocal Raman microscopy in sclerochronology: A powerful tool to visualize environmental information in recent and fossil biogenic archives
| Autor: | Lars Beierlein, Thomas Brey, Gernot Nehrke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
biology Extinct species 010502 geochemistry & geophysics biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Aquatic organisms Paleontology Geophysics 13. Climate action Geochemistry and Petrology Sclerochronology Microscopy Biogenic carbonate Arctica islandica Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | EPIC3Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Wiley, 16 |
| Popis: | Biological hard parts and skeletons of aquatic organisms often archive information of past environmental conditions. Deciphering such information forms an essential contribution to our understanding of past climate conditions and thus our ability to mitigate the climatic, ecological, and social impacts of a rapidly changing environment. Several established techniques enable the visualization and reliable use of the information stored in anatomical features of such biogenic archives, i.e., its growth patterns. Here, we test whether confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) is a suitable method to reliably identify growth patterns in the commonly used archive Arctica islandica and the extinct species Pygocardia rustica (both Bivalvia). A modern A. islandica specimen from Norway has been investigated to verify the general feasibility of CRM, resulting in highly correlated standardized growth indices (r > 0.96; p |
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