Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB
Abstract The biggest Phanerozoic mass extinctionoccurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary and resulted in the loss of about 95% or more of all marine species. For quite some time, many kinds of abnormal environmental events were adopted to explain the abnormal reduction of carbon isotope at the Perm...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/geo-2018-0034 2023-05-15T17:12:04+02:00 Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB Zhong, Y. J. Huang, K. K. Lan, Y. F. Chen, A. Q. 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geo-2018-0034 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geo.2018.10.issue-1/geo-2018-0034/geo-2018-0034.xml http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geo.2018.10.issue-1/geo-2018-0034/geo-2018-0034.pdf unknown Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Open Geosciences volume 10, issue 1, page 441-451 ISSN 2391-5447 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental Science (miscellaneous) journal-article 2018 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/geo-2018-0034 2022-04-14T05:08:10Z Abstract The biggest Phanerozoic mass extinctionoccurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary and resulted in the loss of about 95% or more of all marine species. For quite some time, many kinds of abnormal environmental events were adopted to explain the abnormal reduction of carbon isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary, however there still has not been a unified opinion. In this paper, based on the carbon cycle balance model of the earth under a long-period scale, the contributions of possible cataclysm events at the Permian-Triassic boundary to the carbon isotope records in carbonates were quantitatively simulated. The results proved that a single event, such as volcanism, terrestrial ecosystem collapse or another factor, was not strong enough to lead to the negative bias of carbon isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Even though the release of methane hydrate can result in a comparably large negative excursion of inorganic carbon, this explanation becomes unsuitable when both the shifting Permian-Triassic boundary and the fluctuation record of other inorganic carbon isotopes in the early Triassic as a whole are considered. Therefore, it is suggested that the dynamic equilibrium between inorganic carbon reserves and organic carbon reserves was possibly disturbed by a superimposed effect of multiple events. Article in Journal/Newspaper Methane hydrate De Gruyter (via Crossref) Open Geosciences 10 1 441 451 |
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Abstract The biggest Phanerozoic mass extinctionoccurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary and resulted in the loss of about 95% or more of all marine species. For quite some time, many kinds of abnormal environmental events were adopted to explain the abnormal reduction of carbon isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary, however there still has not been a unified opinion. In this paper, based on the carbon cycle balance model of the earth under a long-period scale, the contributions of possible cataclysm events at the Permian-Triassic boundary to the carbon isotope records in carbonates were quantitatively simulated. The results proved that a single event, such as volcanism, terrestrial ecosystem collapse or another factor, was not strong enough to lead to the negative bias of carbon isotope at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Even though the release of methane hydrate can result in a comparably large negative excursion of inorganic carbon, this explanation becomes unsuitable when both the shifting Permian-Triassic boundary and the fluctuation record of other inorganic carbon isotopes in the early Triassic as a whole are considered. Therefore, it is suggested that the dynamic equilibrium between inorganic carbon reserves and organic carbon reserves was possibly disturbed by a superimposed effect of multiple events. |
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Zhong, Y. J. Huang, K. K. Lan, Y. F. Chen, A. Q. |
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Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB |
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Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB |
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Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB |
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Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB |
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Simulation of Carbon Isotope Excursion Events at the Permian-Triassic Boundary Based on GEOCARB |
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simulation of carbon isotope excursion events at the permian-triassic boundary based on geocarb |
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