Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-635-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-635-2019
Technical note
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04 Apr 2019
Technical note |  | 04 Apr 2019

Technical note: Lithium isotopes in dolostone as a palaeo-environmental proxy – an experimental approach

Holly L. Taylor, Isaac J. Kell Duivestein, Juraj Farkas, Martin Dietzel, and Anthony Dosseto

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Approximately 600 million years ago, major environmental changes set the course for the emergence of animal life. Lithium (Li) isotopes in calcium carbonates can be used as a proxy to understand changes in the palaeo-environment. We conducted experiments that allow us to use Li isotopes in dolostones to extend our understanding of palaeo-environmental changes deeper into the geological record, where other calcium carbonates archives are not present.