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DOI | 10.1073/pnas.2012025117 |
From particle attachment to space-filling coral skeletons | |
Chang-Yu Sun; Cayla A. Stifler; Rajesh V. Chopdekar; Connor A. Schmidt; Ganesh Parida; Vanessa Schoeppler; Benjamin I. Fordyce; Jack H. Brau; Tali Mass; Sylvie Tambutté; Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert | |
2020-11-13 | |
发表期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | Reef-building corals and their aragonite (CaCO3) skeletons support entire reef ecosystems, yet their formation mechanism is poorly understood. Here we used synchrotron spectromicroscopy to observe the nanoscale mineralogy of fresh, forming skeletons from six species spanning all reef-forming coral morphologies: Branching, encrusting, massive, and table. In all species, hydrated and anhydrous amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles were precursors for skeletal growth, as previously observed in a single species. The amorphous precursors here were observed in tissue, between tissue and skeleton, and at growth fronts of the skeleton, within a low-density nano- or microporous layer varying in thickness from 7 to 20 µm. Brunauer-Emmett-Teller measurements, however, indicated that the mature skeletons at the microscale were space-filling, comparable to single crystals of geologic aragonite. Nanoparticles alone can never fill space completely, thus ion-by-ion filling must be invoked to fill interstitial pores. Such ion-by-ion diffusion and attachment may occur from the supersaturated calcifying fluid known to exist in corals, or from a dense liquid precursor, observed in synthetic systems but never in biogenic ones. Concomitant particle attachment and ion-by-ion filling was previously observed in synthetic calcite rhombohedra, but never in aragonite pseudohexagonal prisms, synthetic or biogenic, as observed here. Models for biomineral growth, isotope incorporation, and coral skeletons’ resilience to ocean warming and acidification must take into account the dual formation mechanism, including particle attachment and ion-by-ion space filling. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/304024 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chang-Yu Sun,Cayla A. Stifler,Rajesh V. Chopdekar,et al. From particle attachment to space-filling coral skeletons[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,2020. |
APA | Chang-Yu Sun.,Cayla A. Stifler.,Rajesh V. Chopdekar.,Connor A. Schmidt.,Ganesh Parida.,...&Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert.(2020).From particle attachment to space-filling coral skeletons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. |
MLA | Chang-Yu Sun,et al."From particle attachment to space-filling coral skeletons".Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2020). |
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