Anthropogenic Forcing of the Baltic Sea Thallium Cycle

Ostrander, Chadlin M.; Shu, Yunchao; Nielsen, Sune G.; Dellwig, Olaf; Blusztajn, Jerzy; Schulz-Vogt, Heide N.; Hübner, Vera; Hansel, Colleen M.

doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c01487

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Anthropogenic Forcing of the Baltic Sea Thallium Cycle

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Hübner, Vera
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Ostrander, C. M., Shu, Y., Nielsen, S. G., Dellwig, O., Blusztajn, J., Schulz-Vogt, H. N., et al. (2024). Anthropogenic Forcing of the Baltic Sea Thallium Cycle. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 58(19), 8510-8517. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c01487.

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Anthropogenic activities have fundamentally changed the chemistry of the Baltic Sea. According to results reported in this study, not even the thallium (Tl) isotope cycle is immune to these activities. In the anoxic and sulfidic ("euxinic") East Gotland Basin today, Tl and its two stable isotopes are cycled between waters and sediments as predicted based on studies of other redox-stratified basins (e.g., the Black Sea and Cariaco Trench). The Baltic seawater Tl isotope composition (epsilon Tl-205) is, however, higher than predicted based on the results of conservative mixing calculations. Data from a short sediment core from East Gotland Basin demonstrates that this high seawater epsilon Tl-205 value originated sometime between about 1940 and 1947 CE, around the same time other prominent anthropogenic signatures begin to appear in the same core. This juxtaposition is unlikely to be coincidental and suggests that human activities in the surrounding area have altered the seawater Tl isotope mass-balance of the Baltic Sea.