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Oxygen isotope composition in Modiolus modiolus aragonite in the context of biological and crystallographic control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. Cusack ,
D. Parkinson ,
A. Freer ,
A. Pérez-Huerta ,
A. E. Fallick  and
G. B. Curry
M. Cusack*
Affiliation:
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Gregory Building, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
D. Parkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Gregory Building, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
A. Freer
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 120 University Place, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
A. Pérez-Huerta
Affiliation:
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Gregory Building, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
A. E. Fallick
Affiliation:
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK
G. B. Curry
Affiliation:
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Gregory Building, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
*
*E-mail: maggie.cusack@ges.gla.ac.uk
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Abstract

Living systems exert exquisite control on all aspects of biomineral production and organic components, including proteins, are essential to this biological control. The protein-rich extrapallial (EP) fluid of bivalve molluscs is a strong candidate for the source of such proteins. Differences in calcium carbonate polymorphs between Modiolus modiolus and Mytilus edulis are concurrent with differences in EP fluid protein profiles. In conjunction with this biological control is the environmental influence which is interpreted using proxies such as δ18O to determine the history of ambient seawater temperature. In the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus, the difference in oxygen isotope fractionation in the nacreous aragonite and the prismatic aragonite layer results in respective δ18O values of 2.1±0.2% and 2.5±0.2%. These δ18O values result in estimates of ambient seawater of 12.1±0.6°C and 10.2±0.6°C for nacreous and prismatic aragonite, respectively. Electron backscatter diffraction is used here to determine the crystallographic orientation at high spatial resolution, allowing the measurements of stable isotopes to be accurately mapped in terms of shell architecture. These preliminary data suggest that it is essential to account for both polymorph and crystal habit when deciphering ambient seawater temperature using δ18O as a proxy.

Keywords

bivalve molluscpolymorphcrystal habitproteinoxygen isotopescrystallographic orientationelectron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 569 - 577
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2008

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