A preliminary estimate of changing calcrete carbon storage on land since the Last Glacial Maximum |
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| Authors: | J M Adams W M Post |
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| Institution: | a MS 6335, Environmental Sciences Division, Building 1509, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA;b Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Napier Building, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The glacial-to-interglacial shift in land carbon storage is important in understanding the global carbon cycle and history of the climate system. While organic carbon storage on land appears to have been much less than present during the cold, dry glacial maximum, calcrete (soil carbonate) carbon storage would have been greater. Here we attempt a global estimation of this change; we use published figures for present soil carbonate by biome to estimate changing global soil carbonate storage, on the basis of reconstruction of vegetation areas for four timeslices since the Last Glacial Maximum. It appears that there would most likely have been around a 30–45% decrease in calcrete carbon on land accompanying the transition between glacial and interglacial conditions. This represents a change of about 500–400 GtC (outer error limits are estimated at 750–200 GtC) . In order to be weathered into dissolved bicarbonate, this would take up an additional 500–400 GtC (750–200 GtC) in CO2 from ocean/atmosphere sources. An equivalent amount to the carbonate leaving the caliche reservoir on land may have accumulated in coral reefs and other calcareous marine sediments during the Holocene, liberating an equimolar quantity of CO2 back into the ocean-atmosphere system as the bicarbonate ion breaks up. |
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| Keywords: | calcrete carbonate carbon cycle LGM Holocene |
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