Controls on magnesium, manganese, strontium, and barium concentrations recorded in freshwater mussel shells from Ohio

Geeza, Thomas J.; Gillikin, David P.; Goodwin, David H.; Evans, Scott D.; Watters, T. R.; Warner, Nathaniel R.

doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.01.001

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“…88 Sr in studied saltwater samples is relatively higher than in freshwater samples ( [30][31][32]. Strontium content measured in nacreous aragonitic freshwater bivalve inner shells has been recently suggested as a good proxy of water's 88 Sr [27]. Figure 1 is a binary plot of manganese oxide (MnO) and strontium oxide (SrO).…”

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“…On the other hand, some freshwater samples (15 out of 55) present relatively low 55 Mn concentrations (<150 ppmw). It has been suggested that 55 Mn found in nacreous aragonitic freshwater mollusc shells is linked with the availability of Mn 2+ in the sediment-water interface [27]. Manganese variations of shells were also linked to local geology, anthropogenic factors, animal's age and growth rates as well as phytoplankton blooms, water temperature and pH as well as others [28,29].…”

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Chemical Characteristics of Freshwater and Saltwater Natural and Cultured Pearls from Different Bivalves

Karampelas¹,

Mohamed²,

Abdulla³

et al. 2019

Minerals

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The present study applied Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) on a large number of natural and cultured pearls from saltwater and freshwater environments, which revealed that freshwater (natural and cultured) pearls contain relatively higher quantities of manganese (Mn) and barium (Ba) and lower sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg) and strontium (Sr) than saltwater (natural and cultured) pearls. A few correlations between the host animal’s species and chemical elements were found; some samples from Pinctada maxima (P. maxima) are the only studied saltwater samples with 55Mn >20 ppmw, while some P. radiata are the only studied saltwater samples with 24Mg <65 ppmw and some of the P. imbricata are the only studied saltwater samples with 137Ba >4.5 ppmw. X-ray luminescence reactions of the studied samples has confirmed a correlation between its yellow-green intensity and manganese content in aragonite, where the higher Mn2+ content, the more intense the yellow-green luminescence becomes. Luminescence intensity in some cases is lower even if manganese increases, either because of pigments or because of manganese self-quenching. X-ray luminescence can be applied in most cases to separate saltwater from freshwater samples; only samples with low manganese content (55Mn <50 ppmw) might be challenging to identify. One of the studied natural freshwater pearls contained vaterite sections which react by turning orange under X-ray due to a different coordination of Mn2+ in vaterite than that in aragonite.

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Chemical Characteristics of Freshwater and Saltwater Natural and Cultured Pearls from Different Bivalves

Karampelas¹,

Mohamed²,

Abdulla³

et al. 2019

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“…Moreover, multiple regression analysis showed that shell growth rate explained 23 % of the Mg/Ca variability, and identified the effect of temperature as being negligible in our data set (Table 4). Thus, it appears that the Sr/Ca and Mg /Ca ratios of A. islandica shells to a large proportion reflect physiological processes and do not exclusively reflect water temperature (Gillikin et al, 2005;Freitas et al, 2006;Elliot et al, 2009;Foster et al, 2008Foster et al, , 2009Wanamaker et al, 2008;Geeza et al, 2018;Wanamaker and Gillikin, 2018).…”

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“…Levels of strontium (Sr) and magnesium (Mg) in bivalve shells have been proposed as proxies for water temperature (Klein et al, 1996;Schöne et al, 2013). However, Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios are still difficult to interpret because the incorporation of trace and minor impurities in the shell carbonate is partly physiologically controlled (e.g., Urey et al, 1951;Purton et al, 1999;Lorrain et al, 2005;Freitas et al, 2005Freitas et al, , 2006Schöne et al, 2010Schöne et al, , 2013Marali et al, 2017a;Geeza et al, 2018). Published results on the relationship between the Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios of bivalve shells and temperature are highly ambiguous; previous studies have reported a positive relationship (Stecher et al, 1996;Hart and Blusztajn, 1998;Toland et al, 2000), negative relationship (Dodd, 1965;Stecher et al, 1996;Surge and Walker, 2006;Schöne et al, 2011), and no relationship (Gillikin et al, 2005;Strasser et al, 2008;Izumida et al, 2011;Wanamaker and Gillikin, 2018).…”

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Environmental and biological factors influencing trace elemental and microstructural properties of Arctica islandica shells

Ballesta-Artero

Zhao

Milano

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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Long-term and high-resolution environmental proxy data are crucial to contextualize current climate change. The extremely long-lived bivalve, Arctica islandica, is one of the most widely used paleoclimate archives of the northern Atlantic because of its fine temporal resolution. However, the interpretation of environmental histories from microstructures and elemental impurities of A. islandica shells is still a challenge. Vital effects (metabolic rate, ontogenetic age, and growth rate) can modify the way in which physiochemical changes of the ambient environment are recorded by the shells. To quantify the degree to which microstructural properties and element incorporation into A. islandica shells is vitally or/and environmentally affected, A. islandica specimens were reared for three months under different water temperatures (3, 8 and 13 °C) and food concentrations (low, medium and high). Concentrations of Mg, Sr, Na, and Ba were measured in the newly formed shell portions by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). The microstructures of the shells were analyzed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Shell growth and condition index of each specimen were calculated at the end of the experimental period. Findings indicate that no significant variation in the morphometric characteristics of the microstructures were formed at different water temperatures or different food concentrations. Shell carbonate that formed at lowest food concentration usually incorporated the highest amounts of Mg, Sr and Ba relative to Ca (except for Na) and was consistent with the slowest shell growth and lowest condition index at the end of the experiment. These results seem to indicate that, under food limitation, the ability of A. islandica to discriminate element impurities during shell formation decreases. Moreover, all trace element-to‑calcium ratios were significantly affected by shell growth rate. Therefore, physiological processes seem to dominate the control on element incorporation into A. islandica shells.

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“…One underutilized approach for hydroclimate reconstruction is the use of freshwater mussels as natural stream water stable isotope recorders (Dettman et al, 1999;Kelemen et al, 2017;Pfister et al, 2018Pfister et al, , 2019. Their shells can provide seasonally to annually resolved, chronologically precisely constrained records of environmental changes in the form of variable increment widths (which refers to the distance between subsequent growth lines) and geochemical properties (e.g., Nyström et al, 1996;Schöne et al, 2005a;Geist et al, 2005;Black et al, 2010;Schöne and Krause, 2016;Geeza et al, 2019Geeza et al, , 2020Kelemen et al, 2019). In particular, similar to marine (Epstein et al, 1953;Mook and Vogel, 1968;Killingley and Berger, 1979) and other freshwater bivalves (Dettman et al, 1999;Kaandorp et al, 2003;Versteegh et al, 2009;Kelemen et al, 2017;Pfister et al, 2019), Margaritifera margaritifera forms its shell near equilibrium with the oxygen isotope composition of the ambient water (δ 18 O w ) (Pfister et al, 2018;Schöne et al, 2005a).…”

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Freshwater pearl mussels from northern Sweden serve as long-term, high-resolution stream water isotope recorders

Schöne¹,

Meret

Baier

et al. 2020

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The stable isotope composition of lacustrine sediments is routinely used to infer Late Holocene changes in precipitation over Scandinavia and, ultimately, atmospheric circulation dynamics in the North Atlantic realm. However, such archives only provide a low temporal resolution (ca. 15 years), precluding the ability to identify changes on inter-annual and quasi-decadal timescales. Here, we present a new, high-resolution reconstruction using shells of freshwater pearl mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera, from three streams in northern Sweden. We present seasonally to annually resolved, calendar-aligned stable oxygen and carbon isotope data from 10 specimens, covering the time interval from 1819 to 1998. The bivalves studied formed their shells near equilibrium with the oxygen isotope signature of ambient water and, thus, reflect hydrological processes in the catchment as well as changes, albeit damped, in the isotope signature of local atmospheric precipitation. The shell oxygen isotopes were significantly correlated with the North Atlantic Oscillation index (up to 56 % explained variability), suggesting that the moisture that winter precipitation formed from originated predominantly in the North Atlantic during NAO+ years but in the Arctic during NAO− years. The isotope signature of winter precipitation was attenuated in the stream water, and this damping effect was eventually recorded by the shells. Shell stable carbon isotope values did not show consistent ontogenetic trends, but rather oscillated around an average that ranged from ca. −12.00 to −13.00 ‰ among the streams studied. Results of this study contribute to an improved understanding of climate dynamics in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic sector and can help to constrain eco-hydrological changes in riverine ecosystems. Moreover, long isotope records of precipitation and streamflow are pivotal to improve our understanding and modeling of hydrological, ecological, biogeochemical and atmospheric processes. Our new approach offers a much higher temporal resolution and superior dating control than data from existing archives.

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Controls on magnesium, manganese, strontium, and barium concentrations recorded in freshwater mussel shells from Ohio

Cited by 22 publications

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Chemical Characteristics of Freshwater and Saltwater Natural and Cultured Pearls from Different Bivalves

Chemical Characteristics of Freshwater and Saltwater Natural and Cultured Pearls from Different Bivalves

Environmental and biological factors influencing trace elemental and microstructural properties of Arctica islandica shells

Freshwater pearl mussels from northern Sweden serve as long-term, high-resolution stream water isotope recorders

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