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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2025

Aragonite lithium/magnesium as an indicator of calcification media saturation state in marine calcifiers.

Cristina Castillo Alvarez, Edmund Hathorne, Matthieu Clog, Adrian Finch, Roland Kröger, Kirsty Penkman, Nicola Allison

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Cristina Castillo AlvarezSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Edmund HathorneGEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Matthieu ClogSUERC, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Adrian FinchSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Roland KrögerSchool of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, York, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5070-0297
Kirsty PenkmanDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6226-9799
Nicola AllisonSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3720-1917

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Abstract

Marine calcifiers support ecosystem services, including shell fisheries and coral reefs. Constraining the saturation state of the calcification media of these organisms is essential to understand the response of biomineralisation to environmental change. Here we synthesise aragonite over variable pH, saturation state, temperature, and in the presence of simple biomolecules. We show that the lithium/magnesium distribution coefficient, relating aragonite and precipitation fluid compositions, is significantly affected by precipitation rate but not by temperature or pH. Precipitation rate reflects saturation state and temperature, so lithium/magnesium of biogenic aragonite can be used to calculate mineral precipitation rate and, if the precipitation temperature is known, to reconstruct calcification medium saturation state. Applying the distribution coefficients to a published calcifier dataset indicates that calcification media saturation state is

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Marine biologyMarine chemistry

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PMID41323748
PMCPMC12662775

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