Evaluation of the effect of diagenetic cements on element/Ca ratios in aragonitic Early Miocene (~16Ma) Caribbean corals: Implications for ‘deep-time’ palaeo-environmental reconstructions

• Published in: Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology Vol. 369; pp. 185 - 200
• Main Authors: Griffiths, Naomi, Müller, Wolfgang, Johnson, Kenneth G., Aguilera, Orangel A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Age; Corals; Diagenetic cements; Element/Ca ratios; LA–ICPMS; Miocene; Montastraea; Runoff; Seasonality; SST anomalies; ‘Deep-time’ palaeo-proxies; ANW, Atlantic, Bermuda; Corals; Runoff; Seasonality; ‘Deep-time’ palaeo-proxies; Element/Ca ratios; Miocene; Diagenetic cements; LA–ICPMS; SST anomalies

Early Miocene corals (Siderastrea conferta and Montastraea limbata) from the Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela and a modern coral (S. radians) from Bermuda were examined in order to quantitatively assess the effect of skeletal preservation on element/Ca proxies used for palaeo-environmental reconstruct...