The concentration of strontium in barite is a record of the Sr isotopic composition of the formation fluids, which according to the article has its source from sea water, sediments (both marine and terrigenous) and hydrothermal fluids.
It is this last point, particularly about the Sr concentrations in sea-water, which according to the article Sedimentation of acantharian cysts in the Iceland Basin: Strontium as a ballast for deep ocean particle flux, and implications for acantharian reproductive strategies (Martin et al. 2010) state can fluctuate by several percent
By precipitating celestite, Acantharia can reduce surface seawater strontium (Sr) concentrations by up to 5%
Experimentally the authors found that
Sr fluxes we report are too high to be attributed to nonacantharian sources.