Przedstawiono model matematyczny opisujący wpływ cyklicznego zamarzania i odmarzania wody na skład izotopowy tlenu w wodach podziemnych. Zastosowanie algorytmu frakcjonowania pokazuje, że przy stałej temperaturze zmiany izotopowe mogą osiągać wartości porównywalne z paleoklimatycznymi, wynikając wyłącznie z liczby cykli fazowych. Model rozwija koncepcję rozprężeniowego chłodzenia górotworu, prowadzącego do lokalnego zamarzania. Wyniki wskazują, że procesy endogeniczne mogą generować zmiany składu tlenu o skali typowej dla zmian klimatu, co stwarza ryzyko błędnej interpretacji danych klimatycznych.
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A mathematical model is presented that describes the influence of cyclic freezing and thawing of water on the oxygen isotope composition of groundwater. Application of a fractionation algorithm shows that, under constant temperature conditions, isotope shifts can reach values comparable to paleoclimatic signals, arising solely from the number of phase change cycles. The model develops the concept of decompression driven cooling of the rock mass, leading to localized freezing. The results indicate that endogenic processes may generate oxygen composition changes of a magnitude typical of climate driven signals, creating a risk of misinterpreting climatic data.
In situ analyses of zircon oxygen isotope compositions integrated with U-Pb dating have been used as a tracer of igneous processes on the Małopolska and Upper Silesia Blocks in the Kraków-Lubliniec Fault Zone (KLFZ). This integration provides one of the most robust records of primary magmatic oxygen isotope ratios, making them an important archive for crustal evolution considerations. The sensitive SHRIMP IIe/MC high-resolution microprobe was used to distinguish differences in melt components related to the Carboniferous-Permian magmatism and Mo-Cu (W) mineralization. The compilation of zircon oxygen isotope ratios from several samples from the KLFZ reveals variable magmatic δ18O values, interpreted as mixing of the mantle (δ18O ~ 5.3 ±0.6%) and crustal melts (δ18O >6%), with no contamination by sediments (i.e. δ18O >10%o). There is also a systematic record of the influence of hydrothermal processes with δ18O values <4%%. These results can be potentially used as a database, presented as a map of characteristic δ18O values collected as part of the tasks of the Polish Geological Survey. The starting point for this database could be a collection of about 600 oxygen isotope analyses of zircons from 20 samples of previously dated zircons from the MB in the KLFZ, accompanied by about 260 oxygen isotope analyses from 14 samples from Variscan rocks of the Sudetic area (southern Poland).
For quantitative estimation of past water temperature of four Holsteinian (MIS 11) palaeolakes from eastern Poland, the oxygen isotope palaeothermometer was applied to shells of the aquatic gastropods Viviparus diluVianus and Valvata piscinalis. The δ18O composition of their shells demonstrated the average growth-season water temperatures during the mesocratic stage of the interglacial (Ortel Królewski Lake), during its climatic optimum – the Carpinus–Abies Zone (Ossówka-Hrud, Roskosz and Szymanowo Lakes), and in the post-optimum (Szymanowo Lake). The calculation was based on δ18O Shell values and the δ18O Water assumed for the Holsteinian from the modern oxygen isotope composition of precipitation and the expected amount of evaporative enrichment. The mean oxygen isotope palaeotemperatures of Ortel Królewski lake waters were in the range of 18.1–21.9°C and were uniform for the Taxus and Pinus–Larix zones. Ossówka-Hrud and Roskosz Lakes had mean temperatures of 17.4–21.0°C during the climatic optimum, whereas the temperature of Szymanowo lake waters was estimated at 20.6–21.7°C at that time. These values are concordant with the pollen-inferred July air temperatures noted during the Holsteinian in eastern Poland. Relatively high values of ~25°C in the post-optimum noted at Szymanowo were connected with the presence of a shallow and warm isolated bay indicated by pollen and mollusc records.
This study focuses on the inter- and intra-specific variability in δ13C and δ18O values of shells and opercula of gastropods sampled live from the littoral zone of Lake Lednica, western Poland. The δ13C and δ18O values were measured in individual opercula of Bithynia tentaculata and in shells of Bithynia tentaculata, Gyraulus albus, Gyraulus crista, Lymnaea sp., Physa fontinalis, Radix auricularia, Theodoxus fluviatilis and Valvata cristata. The gastropods selected for the study are among the species most commonly found in European Quaternary lacustrine sediments. The carbon isotope composition of the gastropod shells was species-specific and the same order of species from the most to the least 13C-depleted was observed at all sites sampled. Differences in shell δ13C values between species were similar at all sampling sites, thus the factors influencing shell isotopic composition were interpreted as species-specific. The δ18O values of shells were similar in all the species investigated. Significant intra-specific variability in shell δ13C and δ18O values was observed not only within the populations of Lake Lednica, which can be explained by heterogeneity of δ13C DIC, δ18O water and water temperature between the sites where macrophytes with snails attached were sampled, but also between individuals sampled from restricted areas of the lake’s bottom. The latter points to the importance of factors related to the ontogeny of individual gastropods.
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