Strontium Isotope Ratios (87Sr/86Sr) Analysis from Various Sources of the mountain-forest and forest-steppe Trans-Urals
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The present dataset contains measurement of biovalable strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) gathered in the southern Trans-Urals. There are four samples types, such as wormwood (n = 26), leached soil (n = 56), water (n = 56) and freshwater mollusks (n = 27), collected to measure bioavailable strontium isotopes. The analysis of Sr isotopic composition was carried out in the cleanrooms (6 and 7 ISO classes) of the Geoanalitik shared research facilities of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg). Mollusk shell samples preliminarily cleaned with acetic acid, as well as vegetation samples rinsed with deionized water and ashed, were dissolved by open digestion in concentrated HNO 3 with the addition of H 2 O 2 on a hotplate at 150°C. Water samples were acidified with concentrated nitric acid and filtered. To obtain aqueous leachates, pre-ground soil samples weighing 1 g were taken into polypropylene containers, 10 ml of ultrapure water was added and shaken in for 1 hour, after which they were filtered through membrane cellulose acetate filters with a pore diameter of 0.2 μm. In all samples, the strontium content was determined by ICP-MS (NexION 300S). Then the sample volume corresponding to the Sr content of 600 ng was evaporated on a hotplate at 120°C, the precipitate was dissolved in 7M HNO 3 . Sample solutions were centrifuged at 6000 rpm and strontium was chromatographically isolated using SR resin (Triskem). The strontium isotopic composition was measured on a Neptune Plus multicollector mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma (MC-ICP-MS). To correct mass bias, a combination of bracketing and internal normalization according to the exponential law 88 Sr/ 86 Sr = 8.375209 was used. The results were additionally bracketed using the NIST SRM 987 strontium carbonate reference material using an average deviation from the reference value of 0.710245 for every two samples bracketed between NIST SRM 987 measurements. Bioavailable strontium values for four sample types in the southern adjacent area are available in a previously published dataset (Epimakhov et al., 2022).
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Russian Science Foundation
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