A re-examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA).

ABSTRACT: Whiting events-the episodic precipitation of fine-grained suspended calcium carbonates in the water column-have been documented across a variety of marine and lacustrine environments. Whitings likely are a major source of carbonate muds, a constituent of limestones, and important archives for geochemical proxies of Earth history. While several biological and physical mechanisms have been proposed to explain the onset of these precipitation events, no consensus has been reached thus far. Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA) is a meromictic lake that experiences annual whitings. Materials suspended in the water column collected through the whiting season were characterized using scanning electron microscopy and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy. Whitings in Fayetteville Green Lake ar

SUBMITTER: Stanton C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092686 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature