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Photosynthetic organisms incorporate carbon with a marked though variable bias in favor of the light carbon isotope (12C) which ultimately derives from a kinetic fractionation effect imposed on the principal assimilatory pathways (see Vogel 1980, O’Leary 1981). As a result, average organic matter is enriched by about 20–30‰ in 12C as compared to oceanic bicarbonate and carbonate, the quantitatively most abundant inorganic carbon species in our environment (Schidlowski 1982, 1983).
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Schidlowski, M., Matzigkeit, U., Mook, W.G., Krumbein, W.E. (1985). Carbon Isotope Geochemistry and 14C Ages of Microbial Mats from the Gavish Sabkha and the Solar Lake. In: Friedman, G.M., Krumbein, W.E. (eds) Hypersaline Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70290-7_22
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