scholarly journals Oxygen isotope composition of zircons from the Talnakh economic intrusion of the Noril’sk province: first data

2019 ◽  
Vol 489 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-173
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Badanina ◽  
E. A. Belousova ◽  
K. N. Malitch ◽  
S. F. Sluzhenikin

This study presents the first results of oxygen isotope analyses (18O) collected on zircons from the Talnakh economic intrusion within the Norilsk province. Zircons from gabbro-diorite, gabbroic rocks of the layered series and plagioclase-bearing wehrlite have similar mantle-like mean 18O values (5,39 0,49; 5,64 0,48 and of 5,28 0,34, respectively), which differ from 18O in zircons from sulfide-bearing melanocratic troctolite with a taxitic texture in the lower part of the intrusion (mean 18O = 6,50 0,98). These new oxygen isotope data support (i) the mantle-derived origin of the primary magma(s), parental to the Talnakh intrusion, and (ii) possible involvement of a crustal component during the formation of sulfide-bearing taxitic-textured rocks.

Author(s):  
Matt Sponheimer ◽  
Julia Lee-Thorp

Biogeochemical studies of hominin dietary ecology began decades ago, and, despite refinements, the basic tools being used and questions being asked have changed little since then. Carbon isotope analyses have had the most impact, with numerous studies showing that up to c.4 Ma, early hominins consumed primarily C3 vegetation, as do extant apes, but thereafter consumption of C4 foods became conspicuous if variable. Paranthropus boisei completely abandoned the ancestral C3 diet by at least 2 Ma to become a C4 consumer, a rarity among primates. These shifts were accompanied by changes in the australopith masticatory package. Applications using trace elements, particularly strontium and barium, as trophic level indicators have been less successful, partly because the distributions of trace elements in foodwebs are poorly understood. Similarly, while the oxygen isotope composition of tooth enamel unquestionably reflects ecology, the influences are complex and too poorly understood to allow unambiguous interpretation.


Geology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Friedman ◽  
R. P. Major ◽  
R. Michael Lloyd ◽  
F. Jerry Lucia

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1870-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Spangenberg ◽  
Bernhard Dold ◽  
Marie-Louise Vogt ◽  
Hans-Rudolf Pfeifer

2011 ◽  
Vol 438 (1) ◽  
pp. 697-700
Author(s):  
N. S. Bortnikov ◽  
V. M. Novikov ◽  
E. O. Dubinina ◽  
A. D. Savko ◽  
A. G. Berketa ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 336 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes C.(Hanco) Zwaan ◽  
Alain Cheilletz ◽  
Bruce E. Taylor

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