Strong biological controls on Sr/Ca ratios in aragonitic marine bivalve shells

By David Paul Gillikin, A. Lorrain, J. Navez, J. W. Taylor, L. André, E. Keppens, W. Baeyens, Frank Dehairs. 2005

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The curse of physiology—challenges and opportunities in the interpretation of geochemical data from mollusk shells (2008, background): “For example, with increasing ontogenetic age and lower metabolism, different bivalve species incorporate increasing or decreasing amounts of strontium, magnesium, and barium in their shells (Stecher et al. 1996; Purton et al. 1999; Gillikin et al. 2005a; Lorrain et al. 2005; Bailey and Lear 2006).”
Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios of ontogenetically old, long-lived bivalve shells (Arctica islandica) and their function as paleotemperature proxies (2011, background): “, 2009) and Mercenaria mercenaria (Gillikin et al., 2005) did not vary with growth rate or age at all.”
Stable carbon isotopic composition of Mytilus edulis shells: relation to metabolism, salinity, δ13CDIC and phytoplankton (2006, methodology): “Unfortunately, unlike other biogenic carbonates, many minor elements (e.g., Sr and Mg) in bivalves cannot be used to obtain reliable paleoenvironmental information (Stecher et al., 1996; Vander Putten et al., 2000; Gillikin et al., 2005b; Lorrain et al., 2005).”