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Barium (Ba) stable isotopes in carbonate rock have great potential to provide valuable information on environmental change and the biogeochemical cycles of oceans in the past. Ba in carbonate rock can exist in various phases, such as adsorbable and silicate-bound Ba. However, only the carbonate-bound phase is considered to record the Ba isotopic compositions of ambient seaweater. Here, we designed a two-step leaching experiment to obtain the carbonate-bound Ba in two typical carbonate rocks: limestone and cap dolostone. The results showed that after leaching by 1 mol L–1ammonium acetate, the carbonate-bound Ba extracted by mixed solution of 1.5 mol L–1 acetic acid and 1 mol L–1ammonium acetate in each studied sample have indistinguishable isotope ratios in leaching time conditions between 12 and 72 h. More importantly, the carbonate-bound Ba isotope ratios were quite different from those of the residue (up to 10 times of analytic uncertainty, 2SD ≤ ±0.04 %o) after leaching in three out of four leaching experiments, indicating that noncarbonated fraction could overprint a primary seawater signal. Our sequential leaching techniques could improve targeting of carbonate-bound Ba isotope signatures in various carbonate rocks to trace the Ba cycling in the oceans.
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Zhang, L., Sun, R., Gong, Y. et al. Leaching Methods for Ba Isotope Studies of Carbonates. ANAL. SCI. 36, 1473–1477 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.20P156
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