Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event
The late Permian biotic crisis had a major impact on marine and terrestrial environments. Rising CO2 levels following Siberian Trap volcanic activity were likely responsible for expanding marine anoxia and elevated water temperatures. This study focuses on one of the stratigraphically most expanded...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:sz-j9Vgefwfqyhr0wWXUx 2023-05-15T16:03:54+02:00 Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event Soelen, Elsbeth E. Twitchett, Richard J. Kürschner, Wolfram M. 2018-09-27 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-441-2018 https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/14/441/2018/ en eng Copernicus Publications doi:10.5194/cp-14-441-2018 10670/1.g5zpog 1814-9324 1814-9332 https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/14/441/2018/ undefined Geographica Helvetica - geography eISSN: 1814-9332 envir geo Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-441-2018 2023-01-22T17:52:23Z The late Permian biotic crisis had a major impact on marine and terrestrial environments. Rising CO2 levels following Siberian Trap volcanic activity were likely responsible for expanding marine anoxia and elevated water temperatures. This study focuses on one of the stratigraphically most expanded Permian–Triassic records known, from Jameson Land, East Greenland. High-resolution sampling allows for a detailed reconstruction of the changing environmental conditions during the extinction event and the development of anoxic water conditions. Since very little is known about how salinity was affected during the extinction event, we especially focus on the aquatic palynomorphs and infer changes in salinity from changes in the assemblage and morphology. The start of the extinction event, here defined by a peak in spore : pollen, indicating disturbance and vegetation destruction in the terrestrial environment, postdates a negative excursion in the total organic carbon, but predates the development of anoxia in the basin. Based on the newest estimations for sedimentation rates, the marine and terrestrial ecosystem collapse took between 1.6 and 8 kyr, a much shorter interval than previously estimated. The palynofacies and palynomorph records show that the environmental changes can be explained by enhanced run-off and increased primary productivity and water column stratification. A lowering in salinity is supported by changes in the acritarch morphology. The length of the processes of the acritarchs becomes shorter during the extinction event and we propose that these changes are evidence for a reduction in salinity in the shallow marine setting of the study site. This inference is supported by changes in acritarch distribution, which suggest a change in palaeoenvironment from open marine conditions before the start of the extinction event to more nearshore conditions during and after the crisis. In a period of sea-level rise, such a reduction in salinity can only be explained by increased run-off. High amounts of both ... Article in Journal/Newspaper East Greenland Greenland Unknown Greenland Jameson Land ENVELOPE(-23.500,-23.500,71.167,71.167) Climate of the Past 14 4 441 453 |
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The late Permian biotic crisis had a major impact on marine and terrestrial environments. Rising CO2 levels following Siberian Trap volcanic activity were likely responsible for expanding marine anoxia and elevated water temperatures. This study focuses on one of the stratigraphically most expanded Permian–Triassic records known, from Jameson Land, East Greenland. High-resolution sampling allows for a detailed reconstruction of the changing environmental conditions during the extinction event and the development of anoxic water conditions. Since very little is known about how salinity was affected during the extinction event, we especially focus on the aquatic palynomorphs and infer changes in salinity from changes in the assemblage and morphology. The start of the extinction event, here defined by a peak in spore : pollen, indicating disturbance and vegetation destruction in the terrestrial environment, postdates a negative excursion in the total organic carbon, but predates the development of anoxia in the basin. Based on the newest estimations for sedimentation rates, the marine and terrestrial ecosystem collapse took between 1.6 and 8 kyr, a much shorter interval than previously estimated. The palynofacies and palynomorph records show that the environmental changes can be explained by enhanced run-off and increased primary productivity and water column stratification. A lowering in salinity is supported by changes in the acritarch morphology. The length of the processes of the acritarchs becomes shorter during the extinction event and we propose that these changes are evidence for a reduction in salinity in the shallow marine setting of the study site. This inference is supported by changes in acritarch distribution, which suggest a change in palaeoenvironment from open marine conditions before the start of the extinction event to more nearshore conditions during and after the crisis. In a period of sea-level rise, such a reduction in salinity can only be explained by increased run-off. High amounts of both ... |
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Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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Salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late Permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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salinity changes and anoxia resulting from enhanced run-off during the late permian global warming and mass extinction event |
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