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Series:   Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science

Magnesium Isotopes

Tracer for the Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Magnesium Past and Present or Archive of Alteration?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

Edward T. Tipper
Edward T. Tipper
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

Summary

Magnesium is a major constituent in silicate and carbonate minerals, the hydrosphere and the biosphere. Magnesium is constantly cycled between these reservoirs. Since each of the major planetary reservoirs of magnesium have different magnesium isotope ratios, there is scope to use magnesium isotope ratios to trace 1) the processes that cycle Magnesium at a spatial scales from the entire planet to microscopic and 2) the relative fluxes between these reservoirs. This review summarises some of the key motivations, successes and challenges facing the use of magnesium isotopes to construct a budget of seawater magnesium, present and past.
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Keywords

Mg isotopesoceanic budgetseawater chemistryrivershydrothermal circulation
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Series: Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science
Online ISBN: 9781108991698
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 03 March 2022

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