Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event.
Silicate weathering represents a major feedback mechanism in the Earth’s climate system, helping to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature on million-year time scales. On shorter time scales of greater relevance to understanding the fate of anthropogenic CO2, the efficacy and responsivenes...
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ftunivdurham:oai:dro.dur.ac.uk.OAI2:30977 2023-05-15T17:12:03+02:00 Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. Kemp, David B. Selby, David Izumi, Kentaro 2020 application/pdf http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/ http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/1/30977.pdf http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/2/30977.pdf https://doi.org/10.1130/G47509.1 unknown Geological Society of America dro:30977 issn:0091-7613 issn: 1943-2682 doi:10.1130/G47509.1 http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/ https://doi.org/10.1130/G47509.1 http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/1/30977.pdf http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/2/30977.pdf © 2020 The Authors. Gold Open Access: This paper is published under the terms of the CC-BY license. CC-BY Geology, 2020, Vol.48(10), pp.976-980 [Peer Reviewed Journal] Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftunivdurham https://doi.org/10.1130/G47509.1 2020-10-01T22:22:20Z Silicate weathering represents a major feedback mechanism in the Earth’s climate system, helping to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature on million-year time scales. On shorter time scales of greater relevance to understanding the fate of anthropogenic CO2, the efficacy and responsiveness of weathering is less clear. Here, we present high-resolution osmium-isotope data that reflect global chemical weathering from a stratigraphically thick record of the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (T-OAE; ca. 182 Ma). A pronounced decrease in the carbon-isotope composition of exogenic carbon reservoirs during this event has been linked to the large-scale release of 12C-enriched carbon. Our data indicate that the flux of radiogenic osmium to the oceans increased in lockstep with the decrease in carbon-isotope values, demonstrating a geologically synchronous coupling between massive carbon release and enhanced global continental crust weathering. We show that abrupt shifts in carbon isotopes, previously interpreted as millennial-scale methane hydrate melting or terrestrial carbon-release events, are coeval with rapid increases in weathering. Global weathering may have increased by >40% across each of these intervals of rapid carbon injection. Our results help to reconcile previous estimates of weathering change during the T-OAE, and support the view that, overall, global weathering rates may have increased six-fold through the entire event. Article in Journal/Newspaper Methane hydrate Durham University: Durham Research Online Geology 48 10 976 980 |
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Silicate weathering represents a major feedback mechanism in the Earth’s climate system, helping to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature on million-year time scales. On shorter time scales of greater relevance to understanding the fate of anthropogenic CO2, the efficacy and responsiveness of weathering is less clear. Here, we present high-resolution osmium-isotope data that reflect global chemical weathering from a stratigraphically thick record of the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (T-OAE; ca. 182 Ma). A pronounced decrease in the carbon-isotope composition of exogenic carbon reservoirs during this event has been linked to the large-scale release of 12C-enriched carbon. Our data indicate that the flux of radiogenic osmium to the oceans increased in lockstep with the decrease in carbon-isotope values, demonstrating a geologically synchronous coupling between massive carbon release and enhanced global continental crust weathering. We show that abrupt shifts in carbon isotopes, previously interpreted as millennial-scale methane hydrate melting or terrestrial carbon-release events, are coeval with rapid increases in weathering. Global weathering may have increased by >40% across each of these intervals of rapid carbon injection. Our results help to reconcile previous estimates of weathering change during the T-OAE, and support the view that, overall, global weathering rates may have increased six-fold through the entire event. |
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Kemp, David B. Selby, David Izumi, Kentaro |
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Kemp, David B. Selby, David Izumi, Kentaro Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Kemp, David B. Selby, David Izumi, Kentaro |
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Kemp, David B. |
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Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the toarcian oceanic anoxic event. |
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Geological Society of America |
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2020 |
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http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/ http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/1/30977.pdf http://dro.dur.ac.uk/30977/2/30977.pdf https://doi.org/10.1130/G47509.1 |
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Methane hydrate |
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Methane hydrate |
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Geology, 2020, Vol.48(10), pp.976-980 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
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