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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

GILL, Benjamin C ; LYONS, Timothy W ; YOUNG, Seth A ; KUMP, Lee R ; KNOLL, Andrew H ; SALTZMAN, Matthew R

Nature (London), 2011-01, Vol.469 (7328), p.80-83 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London: Nature Publishing Group

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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean
Autor: GILL, Benjamin C ; LYONS, Timothy W ; YOUNG, Seth A ; KUMP, Lee R ; KNOLL, Andrew H ; SALTZMAN, Matthew R
Assuntos: Animals ; Biological Evolution ; Carbon Cycle ; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) ; Carbon Isotopes - analysis ; Carbonates - analysis ; Earth sciences ; Earth, ocean, space ; Endangered & extinct species ; Environmental aspects ; Exact sciences and technology ; Extinction, Biological ; Fossils ; Geologic Sediments - chemistry ; History, Ancient ; Iron - analysis ; Iron - chemistry ; Isotope geochemistry ; Isotope geochemistry. Geochronology ; Molybdenum - analysis ; Molybdenum - chemistry ; Ocean ; Oceans and Seas ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Oxygen - analysis ; Seawater - chemistry ; Stratigraphy ; Sulfides - analysis ; Sulfides - chemistry ; Sulfur Isotopes - analysis ; Sweden
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Descrição: Widespread anoxia in the ocean is frequently invoked as a primary driver of mass extinction as well as a long-term inhibitor of evolutionary radiation on early Earth. In recent biogeochemical studies it has been hypothesized that oxygen deficiency was widespread in subsurface water masses of later Cambrian oceans, possibly influencing evolutionary events during this time. Physical evidence of widespread anoxia in Cambrian oceans has remained elusive and thus its potential relationship to the palaeontological record remains largely unexplored. Here we present sulphur isotope records from six globally distributed stratigraphic sections of later Cambrian marine rocks (about 499 million years old). We find a positive sulphur isotope excursion in phase with the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), a large and rapid excursion in the marine carbon isotope record, which is thought to be indicative of a global carbon cycle perturbation. Numerical box modelling of the paired carbon sulphur isotope data indicates that these isotope shifts reflect transient increases in the burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulphur in sediments deposited under large-scale anoxic and sulphidic (euxinic) conditions. Independently, molybdenum abundances in a coeval black shale point convincingly to the transient spread of anoxia. These results identify the SPICE interval as the best characterized ocean anoxic event in the pre-Mesozoic ocean and an extreme example of oxygen deficiency in the later Cambrian ocean. Thus, a redox structure similar to those in Proterozoic oceans may have persisted or returned in the oceans of the early Phanerozoic eon. Indeed, the environmental challenges presented by widespread anoxia may have been a prevalent if not dominant influence on animal evolution in Cambrian oceans.
Editor: London: Nature Publishing Group
Idioma: Inglês

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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

GILL, Benjamin C ; LYONS, Timothy W ; YOUNG, Seth A ; KUMP, Lee R ; KNOLL, Andrew H ; SALTZMAN, Matthew R

London: Nature Publishing Group

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