Accuracy, standardization, and interlaboratory calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry

Greaves, Mervyn, Barker, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-6431, Daunt, C. and Elderfield, H. 2005. Accuracy, standardization, and interlaboratory calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6 (2) , Q02D13. 10.1029/2004GC000790

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Abstract

The use of liquid and solid standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca determinations and interlaboratory calibration has been investigated. Preparation of single element standard solutions from primary solid standard material enables the preparation of mixed standard solutions with Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios of known accuracy to better than 0.1%. We also investigated commercial reference materials to determine whether existing carbonate standards could be used as reference material for Mg/Ca determinations in foraminiferal calcite. We propose that, in the absence of a pure calcium carbonate standard certified for Mg/Ca, ECRM 752-1, a limestone CRM containing Mg/Ca within the range of typical foraminifera, is a suitable solid standard for interlaboratory calibration. Replicate Mg/Ca determinations showed that, provided silicate phases are removed by centrifugation, this material is homogenous within the precision of daily instrumental Mg/Ca determinations over a range of sample weights from 10 to 1000 mg, taken from two separate bottles of ECRM 752-1. Results gave an average value of Mg/Ca = 3.75 mmol/mol (0.015 s.d., 0.41% r.s.d.) on 118 determinations from the two bottles.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography Q Science > QE Geology
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Publisher:	American Geophysical Union.
ISSN:	1525-2027
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	07 May 2023 07:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/11145

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