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High-resolution 87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy of the Silurian: Implications for event correlation and strontium flux Stephen C. Ruppel Eric W. James* Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78713-8924 James E. Barrick Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1053 Godfrey Nowlan Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada T. T. Uyeno uous succession of the Jupi nd Chicotte yses of 87Sr/86Sr in Silurian conodonts recovered from localities in North America formations on Anticosti Island, Quebec and Europe representing 13 of the 14 defined Silurian conodont zones provide a high- (Uyeno and Barnes, 1983). Supporting data resolution record of seawater chemistry for the Silurian Period. These data, which are were obtained from selected samples of out- characterized by little or no scatter, depict several high-frequency cycles superimposed on crops in the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec a gradual longer term rise in 87Sr/86Sr for the Silurian. High-frequency cycles have a (Nowlan, 1982), Arkansas, Ohio, Sweden, duration of about one conodont zone, and many correlate with sequence boundaries rec- and England, an l field cores from the ognized around the world. These data provide a much higher resolution image of secular Texas subsurface. All samples were corre- changes in 87Sr/86Sr during the Silurian and may require a rethinking of models of stron- lated to the Oklahoma Highway 77 section tium isotope flux in marine basins. using conodont biozonation and superposi-