Interactive comment on “Reconciling single chamber Mg/Ca with whole test δO in surface to deep dwelling planktonic foraminifera from the Mozambique Channel” by J. Steinhardt et al

Referee3: Review of the manuscript "Reconciling single chamber Mg/Ca with whole test d18O in surface to deep dwelling planktonic foraminifera from the Mozambique Channel“ by J. Steinhardt, C. Cleroux, L. de Nooijer, G.-J. Brummer, R. Zahn, G. Ganssen, and G.-J. Reichart. This manuscript presents a large data set of single specimen stable isotopes and single chamber Mg/Ca on four species of planktonic foraminifera from a sediment trap in the Mozambique Channel which is affected by eddies. These lead to slightly different conditions in the water column affecting foram geochemistry. The authors argue that differences in the two sets, i.e. eddy and non-eddy