Improving preservation state assessment of carbonate microfossils in paleontological research using label-free stimulated Raman imaging.

ABSTRACT: In micropaleontological and paleoclimatological studies based on microfossil morphology and geochemistry, assessing the preservation state of fossils is of the highest importance, as diagenetic alteration invalidates textural features and compromises the correct interpretation of stable isotope and trace elemental analysis. In this paper, we present a novel non-invasive and label-free tomographic approach to reconstruct the three-dimensional architecture of microfossils with submicron resolution based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Furthermore, this technique allows deciphering the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of the minerals within these fossils in a chemically sensitive manner. Our method, therefore, allows to identify microfossils, to chemically map their internal structur

SUBMITTER: Golreihan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6040746 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature