Isotopic (Sr, O, C) indicators of salinity and taphonomy in marginal marine systems

Journal of Foraminiferal Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 262-272

  Reinhardt, Eduard G ^a   Fitton, R J ^b   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AMMONIA TEPIDA; FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSCA; OSTRACODA; PARAROTALIA; PARAROTALIA SPINIGERA;

EID: 0141613583     PISSN: 00961191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/33.3.262     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. ALMOGI-LABIN, A., SIMAN-TOV, R., ROSENFELD, A., and DEBARD, E., 1995, Occurrence and distribution of the foraminifer Ammonia beccarii tepida (Cushman) in water bodies, recent and Quaternary, of the Dead Sea Rift, Israel: Marine Micropaleontology, v.26, p.153-159.
2. ANDERSSON, P. S., WASSERBURG, G. J., INGRI, J., and STORDAL, M. C., 1994, Strontium, dissolved and particulate loads in fresh and brackish waters: the Baltic Sea and Mississippi Delta: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.124, p. 195-210.
3. BRADSHAW, J. S., 1957, Laboratory studies on the rate of growth of the foraminifer Streblus beccarii (Linné) var. tepida (Cushman): Journal of Paleontology, v.31, p.1138-1147.
4. 86Sr chronostratigraphy in marginal marine environments and dating of vertebrate and invertebrate faunas: Journal of Paleontology, v.69, p.1-6.
5. BUZAS, M. A., HAYEK, L.-A.C., REED, S. A. and JETT, J. A., 2002, Foraminiferal densities over five years in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida: a model of pulsating patches: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 32, p.68-93.
6. CLAYTON, R. N. and DEGENS, E. T., 1959, Use of carbon isotope analyses of carbonates for differentiating freshwater and marine sediments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v.43, p.890-897.
7. CULVER, S. J., 1980, Differential two-way sediment transport in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, United Kingdom: Marine Geology, v. 34, p.39-43.
8. DEBENAY, J.-P., DULEBA, W., BONETTI, C. DE MELO E SOUZA, S. H. and EICHLER, B. B., 2001, Pararotalia cananeiaensis N.sp.: Indicator of marine influence and water circulation in Brazilian coastal and paralic environments: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v.31, p.152-163.
9. DODD, J. R. and STANTON, R. J., 1975, Paleosalinities within a Pliocene bay, Kettleman Hills, California: A study of the resolving power of isotopic and faunal techniques: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.86, p.51-64.
10. EMELYANOV, E. M. and SHIMKUS, K. M., 1986. Geochemistry and sedimentology of the Mediterranean Sea: Reidel, 553pp.
11. FISHBEIN, E. and PATTERSON, R. T., 1993, Error Weighted Maximum Likelihood (EWML): a new statistically based method to cluster quantitative micropaleontological data: Journal of Paleontology, v. 67, p.475-486.
12. FLESSA, K. W. and KOWALEWSKI, M., 1994, Shell survival and time-averaging in nearshore and shelf environments: estimates from the radiocarbon literature: Lethaia,v.27, p.153-165.
13. FÜRSICH, F. T. and ABERHAN, M., 1990. Significance of time-averaging for palaeocommunity analysis: Lethaia, v.23, p.143-152.
14. HERBST, G. N., and MIENIS, H. K., 1985, Aquatic invertebrate distribution in Nahal Tanninim, Israel: Israel Journal of Zoology, v.33, p.51-62.
15. HODELL, D. A., MEAD, G. A., and MUELLER, P. A., 1990, Variation in the strontium isotopic composition of seawater (8 Ma to present): implication for chemical weathering rates and dissolved fluxes to the oceans: Chemical Geology, v.80, p.291-307.
16. 86Sr ratios in carbonate fossils: A case study from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.61, p.2105-2118.
17. _, MUEHLENBACHS, K., and CREASER, R. A., 1997b, Depositional environment of the early Cretaceous Ostracode Zone: Paleohydrologic constraints from oxygen, carbon and strontium isotopes: Memoir - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, v.18, p.77-92.
18. INGRAM, B. L. and SLOAN, D., 1992, Strontium isotopic composition of estuarine sediments as paleosalinity-paleoclimate indicator: Science, v.255, p. 68-72.
19. _, and DEPAOLO, D. J., 1993, A 4300 year strontium isotope record of estuarine paleosalinity in San Francisco Bay, California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 119, p.103-119.
20. _, CONRAD, M. E., and INGLE, J. C., 1996a, Stable isotope salinity systematics in estuarine waters and carbonates: San Francisco Bay, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.60, p.455-467.
21. _, INGLE, J. C. and CONRAD, M. E., 1996b, Stable isotope record of late Holocene salinity and river discharge in San Francisco Bay, California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 141, p.237-247.
22. _, INGLE, J. C., and CONRAD, M. E., 1996c, A 2000 yr record of Sacramento-San Joaquin river inflow to San Francisco Bay estuary, California: Geology, v.24, p.331-334.
23. KEITH, M. L., ANDERSON, G. M., and EICHLER, R., 1964, Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of mollusk shells from marine and freshwater environments: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.28, p.1757-1786.
24. KOCH, P. L., HALLIDAY, A. N., WALTER, L. M., STEARLY, R. F., HUSTON, T. J., and SMITH, G. R., 1992, Sr isotopic composition of hydroxyapatite from recent and fossil salmon: the record of lifetime migration and diagenesis: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.108, p.277-287.
25. MARTIN, R. E., 1999, Taphonomy a Process Approach: Cambridge Paleobiology Series, No. 4, Cambridge University Press, 508 p.
26. _, WEHMILLER, J. F., HARRIS, M. S. and LIDDELL, W. D., 1996, Comparative taphonomy of foraminifera and bivalves in Holocene shallow-water carbonate and siliciclastic regimes: taphonomic grades and temporal resolution: Paleobiology, v, 22, p.80-90.
27. MCCONNAUGHEY, T. A., BURDETT, J, WHELAN, L. F., and PAULL, C. K., 1997, Carbon isotopes in biological carbonates; respiration and photosynthesis: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.61, p.611-622.
28. MCCORKLE, D. C., KEIGWIN, L. D., CORLISS, B. H., Emerson, S.R., 1990, The influence of microhabitats on the carbon isotopic composition of deep sea benthic foraminifera: Paleoceanography, v.5, p.161-185.
29. MILLER, A. A. L., SCOTT D. B., and MEDIOLI F. S., 1982, Elphidium excavatum (Terguem); ecophenotypic versus suspecific variation: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 12, p.116-144.
30. MOOK, W. G. and KOENE, B. K. S., 1975, Chemistry of dissolved inorganic carbon in estuarine and coastal brackish waters: Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science, v.3, p.325-336.
31. MURRAY, J. W., 1991, Ecology and palaeoecology of benthic foraminifera: Longman Group, 397 pp.
32. MURRAY, J. W. and ALVE, E., 2000, Major aspects of foraminiferal variability (standing crop and biomass) on a monthly scale in an intertidal zone: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 30, p. 177-191.
33. PALMER, M. R. and EDMOND, J. M., 1992, Controls over the strontium isotope composition of river water: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.56, p.2099-2111.
34. PATTERSON, R. T. and FISHBEIN, E., 1989, Re-examination of the statistical methods to determine the number of point counts needed for micropaleontological quantitative research: Journal of Paleontology, v.63, p.245-248.
35. 86Sr isotopic stratigraphy of the Oligocene-to-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence in the southeastern Calabrian microplate, southern Italy: Journal of Paleontology, v.69, p.7-20.
36. _, GUILBAULT, J. P., and THOMSON, R. E., 2000, Oxygen level control on foraminiferal distribution in Effingham Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v.30, p.321-335.
37. PIERRE, C., 1999, The oxygen and carbon isotope distribution in the Mediterranean water masses: Marine Geology, v. 153, p.41-55.
38. POAG, C. W., 1981 Ecological Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: Woods Hole, 174 pp.
39. 86Sr) vital effect in marine taxa from Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas: Geo-Marine Letters, v.18, p.241-246.
40. _, and RABAN, A., 1999, Catastrophic destruction of Herod the Great's harbor at Caesarea Maritima, Israel - geoarchaeological evidence: Geology, v.27, p.811-814.
41. _, STANLEY, D. J., and PATTERSON, R. T., 1998, Strontium isotopic-paleontological method as a high-resolution paleosalinity tool for lagoonal environments: Geology, v.26, p.1003-1006.
42. _, STANLEY, D. J., and SCHWARCZ, H. P., 2001, Human-induced desalinization of Manzala Lagoon, Nile Delta, Egypt: evidence from the isotopic analysis of benthic invertebrates: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 17, p.431-442.
43. REINSON, G. E., 1992, Transgressive barrier island and estuarine systems, in R.G. WALKER and N.P. JAMES Facies Models Response to Sea Level Change: Geological Association of Canada, St. John's, p. 179-194.
44. RHOADS, D. C. and LUTZ, R. A., (eds.), 1980, Skeletal growth of aquatic organisms: biological records of environmental change: Plenum Press, 750 pp.
45. 86Sr, Na, F, Sr and La in skeletal fish debris as a measure of the paleosalinity of fossil-fish habitats: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p.786-794.
46. 86Sr as a paleosalinity indicator on mixed marine, brackish-water and terrestrial vertebrate skeletal apatite in late Paleocene-early Eocene near-coastal sediments, Mississippi: Chemical Geology, v.140, p.275-287.
47. SCOTT, D. B., MEDIOLI, F. S. and SCHAFER, C. T., 2001, Monitoring in Coastal Environments using Foraminifera and Thecamoebian indicators: Cambridge University Press, 167 pp.
48. SPEYER, S. E. and BRETT, C. E., 1988, Taphofacies models for eperiric sea environments: Middle Paleozoic examples: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.63, p.225-262.
49. STRAIN, P. M. and TAN, F. C., 1979, Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the Saguenay Fjord and the St. Lawrence estuary and their implications for paleoenvironmental studies: Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science, v.8, p.119-126.