Diet control on carbon isotopic composition of land snail shell carbonate

• Published in: Chinese science bulletin Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 388 - 394
• Main Authors: Liu, ZongXiu, Gu, ZhaoYan, Wu, NaiQin, Xu, Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China 01.02.2007
• Subjects: 碳同位素成分; 碳酸盐; 蜗牛壳; 饲料控制; 黄土高原; carbon isotope; land snail; Loess Plateau

Carbon isotope compositions for both the carbonate shells and soft bodies （organic tissue） of living land snails collected mostly from the Loess Plateau, China have been measured. The result shows that δ^13C values range from -13.1‰ to -4.3‰ for the aragonite shell samples and from -26.8‰ to -18.0‰...