Opportunities and constraints for reconstructing palaeoenvironments from stable light isotope ratios in fossils

Lee-Thorp, J. A.; Sponheimer, M.

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Opportunities and constraints for reconstructing palaeoenvironments from stable light isotope ratios in fossils

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Lee-Thorp J. A. , Sponheimer M.

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Stable isotope records of environmental change. European Society for Isotope Research. VII Isotope Workshop, Graz 2004

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Stable light isotope ratios (¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O) in fossilteeth provide key archives for understanding ecology of past faunal communities and the evolution of environments during the Plio-Pleistocene. Given the inevitable processes of diagenesis during fossilisation, the integrity of isotopic in formation and the degree of detailed in formation that can be extracted, remain important issues in all fossil studies. The most appropriate tests are those in trinsic to isotopic abundances in ecosystems. They are easier to develop for ¹³C/¹²C in savanna environments where large ¹³C/¹²C differences exist between C₄ tropical grasses and C₃ trees and shrubs. Validating ¹⁸O/¹⁶O ratios in fossil carbonate or phosphate is more difficult, but patterned variability, mainly tracking water-related behaviour, within modern faunal communities has been replicated in several fossil as semblages. The identification of seasonal variation in ¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O along the growth axis of a tooth crown, also applicable in areas composed solely of C₃ plants, fills a dual role as a test and for providing data on seasonal amplitude. The results of studies from low- and mid-latitude African sites suggest that isotopic variation in rain fall on short timescales and ecological differences amongst animals, dominate over smaller differences in ¹⁸O¹⁶O composition due to temperature.

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stable light isotopes fossils vertebrates diagenesis environmental reconstruction

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Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy

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Geological Quarterly

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2005

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Vol. 49, No. 2

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195--204

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Bibliogr. 63 poz., rys., wykr.

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Lee-Thorp J. A.

j.a.lee-thorp@bradford.ac.uk

Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK-BD7 1DP

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Sponheimer M.

msponheimer@ya hoo.com

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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