Calcium isotope fractionation during microbially induced ...
May 15, 2020· Calcium carbonate mineral precipitation preferentially takes the lighter 40 Ca isotope, leaving the heavy 44 Ca isotope behind, resulting in calcium carbonate minerals with a low δ 44 Ca and the fluid from which they precipitate with an increasingly higher δ 44 Ca (Zhu and Macdougall, 1998).