Sr Isotope Stratigraphy and Geochronology
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2022) | Viewed by 345
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geochemistry; isotopes; carbonates; evaporites; TIMS; ICPMS; MC-ICPMS
2. North Africa Research Group, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Interests: high resolution event stratigraphy; invertebrate palaeontology; chemostratigraphy; mesozoic palaeoenvironments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of Sr Isotope Stratigraphy relies on the fact that the 87Sr/86Sr ratios (Sr isotope composition) of marine biogenic carbonate or phosphate are identical to the Sr isotope composition of seawater from which they precipitated. As these ratios changed through geological time, it is thus possible to date samples by placing them on the seawater composition curve.
The dating of marine carbonate is of critical importance to better understand the formation and evolution of carbonate-based reservoirs, and also paleoceanographic reconstructions.
However, fulfilling these objectives is critically dependent on our ability to precisely analyze and interpret the Sr isotope compositions of various type of samples, as well as our knowledge of the evolution of the composition of seawater.
In this Special Issue, we invite work that presents not only recent advances in analytical techniques, and chemical procedures that will strengthen our ability to precisely date samples, but also case studies that use SIS ages.
Dr. Sidonie Révillon
Dr. Luc G. Bulot
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbonates
- Sr isotopes
- seawater evolution curves
- high resolution integrated stratigraphy
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