Table 1 Details on storage and measurements

From: Planktic foraminifera form their shells via metastable carbonate phases

Analytical session

Storage

Technique

Preparation

 

Months

Conditions

  

1

20

Dry

TEM

Surficial FIB extraction after shell fracture.

2

26

Dry

TEM

Cross-section FIB extraction after resin-mount and polish.

3

39

Dry

FTIR

Unprepared, analysed broken.

4a

1

Wet

XRD

Shells broken open by hand.

  1. TEM transmission electron microscopy, FTIR Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, XRD X-ray diffraction, FIB focussed ion beam
  2. The storage time, conditions, measurements conducted and sample preparation for specimens measured in all four analytical sessions. Specimens measured during sessions 1–3 were all collected at the same time, and stored in the same conditions
  3. aSeparate collection of N. dutertrei only
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