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Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2493-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2493-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
Research article
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12 Dec 2023
Research article |  | 12 Dec 2023

Orbital CO2 reconstruction using boron isotopes during the late Pleistocene, an assessment of accuracy

Elwyn de la Vega, Thomas B. Chalk, Mathis P. Hain, Megan R. Wilding, Daniel Casey, Robin Gledhill, Chongguang Luo, Paul A. Wilson, and Gavin L. Foster

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We evaluate how faithfully the boron isotope composition of foraminifera records atmospheric CO2 by comparing it to the high-fidelity CO2 record from the Antarctic ice cores. We evaluate potential factors and find that partial dissolution of foraminifera shells, assumptions of seawater chemistry, and the biology of foraminifera all have a negligible effect on reconstructed CO2. This gives confidence in the use of boron isotopes beyond the interval when ice core CO2 is available.
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