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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 December 2020
      28 January 2021
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      9781108863438
      9781108797948
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863438
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      Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science
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    Vanadium isotope ratios (51V/50V) have potential to provide information about changes in past ocean oxygen contents. In particular, V isotopes may find utility in tracing variations at non-zero oxygen concentrations because the redox couple that controls V elemental and isotopic abundances in seawater (vanadate-vanadyl) appears to operate around 10M O2. This characteristic sets V isotopes apart from many other metal isotope redox proxies that require more reducing conditions to register significant changes in their isotope budgets. The oxygen abundance sensitivity range of V isotopes suggests that this paleoproxy could be particularly useful in tracing marine oxygenation changes throughout the Phanerozoic and potentially beyond.

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    Key Papers

    First high-precision V isotope studies that documented chemical separation techniques and mass spectrometric protocols:

    Nielsen, S. G., Prytulak, J. and Halliday, A. N. (2011) Determination of precise and accurate 51 V ⁄ 50 V isotope ratios by MC-ICP-MS, part 1: Chemical separation of vanadium and mass spectrometric protocols. Geostand. Geoanal. Res., 35, 293–306.
    Prytulak, J., Nielsen, S. G. and Halliday, A. N. (2011) Determination of precise and accurate 51 V ⁄ 50 V isotope ratios by multi-collector ICP-MS, part 2: Isotopic composition of six reference materials plus the Allende chondrite and verification tests. Geostand. Geoanal. Res., 35, 307–18.
    Wu, F., Qi, Y. H., Yu, H. M., et al. (2016) Vanadium isotope measurement by MC-ICP-MS. Chem. Geol., 421, 17–25.
    Nielsen, S. G., Owens, J. D. and Horner, T. J. (2016) Analysis of high-precision vanadium isotope ratios by medium resolution MC-ICP-MS. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 31, 531–6.

    Papers that documented the composition of seawater and modern marine fluxes:

    Wu, F., Owens, J. D., Huang, T., et al. (2019) Vanadium isotope composition of seawater. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 244, 403–415.
    Wu, F., Owens, J. D., Scholz, F., et al. (2020) Sedimentary vanadium isotope signatures in marine low oxygen bottom water conditions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, in press.
    Wu, F., Owens, J. D., Tang, L., Dong, Y. and Huang, F. (2019) Vanadium isotopic fractionation during the formation of marine ferromanganese crusts and nodules. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 265, 371–85.
    Schuth, S., Brüske, A., Hohl, S. V., et al. (2019) Vanadium and its isotope composition of river water and seawater: Analytical improvement and implications for vanadium isotope fractionation. Chem.Geol., 528, 119261.

    Theoretical study of V isotope fractionation:

    Wu, F., Qin, T., Li, X. F., et al. (2015) First-principles investigation of vanadium isotope fractionation in solution and during adsorption. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 426, 216–24.

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