Figure 4

Relationship between oxygen isotopic composition of carbonate and host waters in (a) a combination of isotope data collected from published papers and thirty-three lakes, and in (b) lake surface sediments. Black crosses are data for thirty-three lake surface water samples analyzed in this study. Also shown are data for laboratory synthetic carbonates from experiments, lake surface sediment samples, and other field-collected samples compiled from published papers (Supplementary Table S4 online). The black solid line is the least-square linear regression line through all data. Dotted line shows 95% confidence intervals.