Université de Fribourg

Molybdenum isotopic composition of modern and Carboniferous carbonates

Voegelin, Andrea R. ; Nägler, Thomas F. ; Samankassou, Elias ; Villa, Igor M.

In: Chemical Geology, 2009, vol. 265, no. 3-4, p. 488-498

We investigate the redox-sensitive isotope system of molybdenum (Mo) in marine carbonates to evaluate their potential as archive of the Mo isotopic composition of coeval seawater. We present Mo isotope data (δ98/95Mo) of modern skeletal and non-skeletal carbonates as well as a variety of precipitates from the mid and late Carboniferous. The external reproducibility is...