Calcium Isotopic Variations Produced by Biological, Kinetic, Radiogenic and Nucleosynthetic Processes
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Mineralogical Society of America in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
- Vol. 55 (1) , 255-288
- https://doi.org/10.2138/gsrmg.55.1.255
Abstract
Study of the isotopic variations of calcium is of interest because Ca is important in geochemical and biochemical processes, and is one of few major cations in rocks and minerals with demonstrated isotopic variability. Calcium is critical to life and a major component of the global geochemical cycles that control climate. Studies to date show that biological processing of calcium produces significant isotopic fractionation (4 to 5‰ variation of the 44Ca/40Ca ratio has been observed). Calcium isotopic fractionation due to inorganic processing at high (e.g., magmatic) temperatures is small. There are few studies of calcium isotope fractionation...Keywords
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