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Zinc Isotope Characteristics in the Biogeochemical Cycle as Revealed by Analysis of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in Aha Lake and Hongfeng Lake, Guizhou, China

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Zn isotope is a useful tool for tracing biogeochemical processes as zinc plays important roles in the biogeochemistry of natural systems. However, the Zn isotope composition in the lake ecosystems has not been well characterized. In order to resolve this problem, we investigate the Zn isotope compositions of suspended particulate matter (SPM) and biological samples collected from the Aha Lake and Hongfeng Lake, and their tributaries in summer and winter, aiming to explore the potential of this novel isotope system as a proxy for biogeochemical processes in aqueous environments. Concentration of dissolved Zn ranges from 0.65 to 5.06 μg/L and 0.74 to 12.04 μg/L for Aha Lake and Hongfeng Lake, respectively, while Zn (SPM) ranges from 0.18 to 0.70 mg/g and 0.24 to 0.75 mg/g for Aha Lake and Hongfeng Lake, respectively. The Zn isotope composition in SPM from Aha Lake and its main tributaries ranges from -0.18‰ to 0.27‰ and -0.17‰ to 0.46‰, respectively, and it varies from -0.29‰ to 0.26‰ and -0.04‰ to 0.48‰, respectively in Hongfeng Lake and its main tributaries, displaying a wider range in tributaries than lakes. These results imply that Zn isotope compositions are mainly affected by tributaries inputting into Aha Lake, while adsorption process by algae is the major factor for the Zn isotope composition in Hongfeng Lake, and ZnS precipitation leads to the light Zn isotope composition of SPM in summer. These data and results provide the basic information of the Zn isotope for the lake ecosystem, and promote the application of Zn isotope in biogeochemistry.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Xiaolong Liu, Hu Ding and Li Bai for their helps in the field works, and Suohan Tang, Shizhen Li and Xuexian He for the technical support with MC-ICP-MS analysis. This study has benefited greatly from discussion with Prof. Nyekachi Adele at University of Edinburgh. This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40903005). The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-017-0957-8.

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  1. School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Lili Liang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550002, China

    Lili Liang, Cong-Qiang Liu & Liuting Song

  3. Key Laboratory of Isotopic Geology of the Ministry of Land and Resources, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100037, China

    Xiangkun Zhu & Jin Li

  4. School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FE, UK

    Bryne T. Ngwenya

  5. School of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Zhongliang Wang

  6. College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Liuting Song

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Liang, L., Liu, CQ., Zhu, X. et al. Zinc Isotope Characteristics in the Biogeochemical Cycle as Revealed by Analysis of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in Aha Lake and Hongfeng Lake, Guizhou, China. J. Earth Sci. 31, 126–140 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-017-0957-8

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