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Sr/Ca sensitivity to aragonite saturation state in cultured subsamples from a single colony of coral: mechanism of biomineralization during ocean acidification

Posted on EPOCA: 12 Dec 2012  Using a new and rapid NanoSIMS-based method, we quantified the sensitivity of skeletal Sr/Ca in coral to the aragonite saturation state of seawater (ΩSW). Skeletal Sr/Ca is a common proxy for temperature while ΩSW is a parameter that varied in the past ocean and is