“…Sources of REE+Y and the fidelity of their signals have been investigated using the 138 Ce and 147 Nd isotope systems (e.g., Tanaka et al, 1982;Derry and Jacobsen, 1990;Shimizu et al, 1991;Hayashi et al, 2004;Viehmann et al, 2015;Haugaard et al, 2016). Both Ce and Nd have short residence times in the modern ocean, 90-165 and 1000-1500 years, respectively (Amakawa et al, 1996), and in the Archaean oceans these elements likely had a similar residence times on the order of 10 3 years, suggesting that Ce and Nd isotope compositions would be spatially heterogeneous.…”