Stepwise atmospheric carbon-isotope excursion during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic,Polish Basin) |
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| Authors: | Stephen P Hesselbo Grzegorz Pieńkowski |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian Univeristy of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece;2. Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon UMR 5276 CNRS, Université Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, Campus de la Doua, Bâtiment Géode, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France;3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, United Kingdom;1. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain;2. Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, UMR 5276 CNRS, Université Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France;3. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;1. Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK;2. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan;1. UMR CNRS 5276 LGLTPE, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Bâtiment Géode, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France;2. Departamento de Ciências da Terra and IMAR-CMA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Largo Marquês de Pombal, 3000-272 Coimbra, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | During the Mesozoic (250–64 Ma) intervals of about 0.5 Myr were subject to severe environmental changes, including high sea-surface temperature and very low oxygen content of marine water. These Oceanic Anoxic Events, or OAEs, occurred simultaneously with profound disturbance to the carbon cycle. The carbon-isotope anomaly in the Early Jurassic that marks the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) at ~ 182 Ma is characterized in marine sections by a series of dramatic steps towards lighter values. Herein we present new carbon-isotope data from terrestrial organic matter (phytoclast separates), collected through a Late Pliensbachian–Middle Toarcian coastal and marginal marine succession in the Polish Basin, a setting where hinterland climate and sea-level change are well recorded. The results show that the shift to light carbon-isotope values in the woody organic matter, and therefore also in atmospheric carbon dioxide, similarly occurred in major steps. The steps are here correlated with those identified from marine organic matter, where they have previously been attributed to 100 kyr eccentricity forcing of climate. The results provide strong support for orbitally and climatically controlled release of isotopically light carbon from gas hydrates into the ocean–atmosphere system in a series of rapid bursts. Additionally, a link between the carbon-isotope steps and shoreline movements can be demonstrated. Individual peaks of the negative excursion are mostly associated with facies indicative of sea-level rise (flooding surfaces). However, at the same time inferred higher atmospheric carbon-dioxide content may be expected to have resulted in increased rainfall and temperature, leading to accelerated weathering and erosion, and consequently increased sediment supply, progradation and regression, causing some mismatches between isotope shifts and inferred sea-level changes. Enhanced abundance of megaspores derived from hydrophilic plant groups, and marked increase in kaolinite, are coincident with the overall development of the negative isotope excursion. The combined data suggest that each 100-kyr cycle in carbon-isotope values was characterized by increasingly severe palaeoclimatic change, culminating in extremely hot and humid conditions co-incident with the peak of the final most negative carbon-isotope excursion. The chemostratigraphic correlation allows very precise dating of the Late Pliensbachian–Middle Toarcian coastal and marginal marine sedimentary succession in the Polish Basin. |
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