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Magnesium and Calcium Distribution in World Oceans - A Review


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Magnesium and calcium have noteworthy contribution in determining skeletal biomineralogy of calcifying marine organisms. Their concentration in shallow water differs from open water. Secular changes in oceanic Mg:Ca driven by mid oceanic ridge activity considered as the decisive factor of Mg:Ca in ocean water throughout the Phanerozoic. For understanding the biomineralogy of modern calcifying organisms and their evolutionary trajectory it would be a good approach to review the concentration of magnesium and calcium in the modern seawater.
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Ranasish Roy Chowdhury
RAM Foundation for Natural and Social Sciences, India
Reshmi Roy Chowdhury
RAM Foundation for Natural and Social Sciences, India

Abstract


Magnesium and calcium have noteworthy contribution in determining skeletal biomineralogy of calcifying marine organisms. Their concentration in shallow water differs from open water. Secular changes in oceanic Mg:Ca driven by mid oceanic ridge activity considered as the decisive factor of Mg:Ca in ocean water throughout the Phanerozoic. For understanding the biomineralogy of modern calcifying organisms and their evolutionary trajectory it would be a good approach to review the concentration of magnesium and calcium in the modern seawater.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2014%2Fv28%2Fi6%2F152148