PP21A-2207
δ17O and Δ47—The Heavens can Wait.
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Albert S Colman, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Abstract:
Most terrestrial systems fall on or close to the Global Meteoric Water Line, GMWL, for 17O and 18O isotopes. Luz and Barken (2010) recently discussed variations from the GMWL, and typically the differences were in the 50 per meg, or 0.05‰, 17O excess. Landais et al. also looked at water from a Vostok ice core, covering the past 150,000 years, and see differences from GMWL on the order of 45 per meg 17O excess. Carbonate samples are analyze for their 13C and 18O to help understand paleo-climate, water sources, and by looking at clumped isotopes, Δ47, the excess of 13C-18O bonds measured by mass spectroscopy on m/z 47. Those samples will also carry thru the 17O-excess in their waters of formation. We modeled the effect of 17O excess on Δ47 and basically there is little effect in the 50 per meg 17O excess range. We also looked at what would happen with 18O spiked samples, presuming the spike does not add 17O. In that case, a 100 ‰ shift in 18O would give rise to -49‰ 17O excess anomaly. That shows a significant effect, a 1.8 ‰ shift in Δ47 and even a 3.5 ‰ shift in the δ13C reading. So spiked samples are not good candidates for clumped isotope analysis, terrestrial samples probably will not have enough of a 17O excess to affect Δ47 measurements, and extra-terrestrial samples will have to be checked.