Reconciliation of marine and terrestrial carbon isotope excursions based on changing atmospheric CO 2 levels

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schubert, Brian A ^a,b   Hope Jahren, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPE;

AMPLITUDE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOCENE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBSTRATE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CARBON RELEASE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; EOCENE; LAND BIOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCENE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

EID: 84877750114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2659     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Hesselbo, S. P., Robinson, S. A., Surlyk, F. & Piasecki, S. Terrestrial and marine extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary synchronized with major carbon-cycle perturbation: a link to initiation of massive volcanism? Geology 30, 251-254 (2002). (Pubitemid 35016123)
2. Koch, P. L., Zachos, J. C. & Gingerich, P. D. Correlation between isotope records in marine and continental carbon reservoirs near the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 358, 319-322 (1992).
3. Hesselbo, S. P. et al. Carbon-cycle perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and accompanying changes in the terrestrial paleoenvironment. J. Geol. 111, 259-276 (2003). (Pubitemid 36893245)
4. Herrle, J. O., Kößler, P., Friedrich, O., Erlenkeuser, H. & Hemleben, C. High-resolution carbon isotope records of the Aptian to Lower Albian from SE France and the Mazagan Plateau (DSDP Site 545): a stratigraphic tool for paleoceanographic and paleobiologic reconstruction. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 218, 149-161 (2004). (Pubitemid 38154428)
5. Ruhl, M., Bonis, N. R., Reichart, G.-J., Damsté, J. S. S. & Kürschner, W. M. Atmospheric carbon injection linked to end-Triassic mass extinction. Science 333, 430-434 (2011).
6. Bowen, G. J., Beerling, D. J., Koch, P. L., Zachos, J. C. & Quattlebaum, T. A humid climate state during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 432, 495-499 (2004). (Pubitemid 39576528)
7. Hesselbo, S. P., Jenkyns, H. C, Duarte, L. V. & Oliveira, L. C. V. Carbon-isotope record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Oceanic Anoxic Event from fossil wood and marine carbonate (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal). Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 253, 455-470 (2007). (Pubitemid 46083305)
8. Abels, H. A. et al. Terrestrial carbon isotope excursions and biotic change during Palaeogene hyperthermals. Nat. Geosci. 5, 326-329 (2012).
9. Jahren, A. H., Conrad, C. P., Arens, N. C, Mora, G. & Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. A plate tectonic mechanism for methane hydrate release along subduction zones. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 236, 691-704 (2005). (Pubitemid 41258199)
10. Tipple, B. J. et al. Coupled high-resolution marine and terrestrial records of carbon and hydrologic cycles variations during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 311, 82-92 (2011).
11. McInerney, F. A. & Wing, S. L. The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: a perturbation of carbon cycle, climate, and biosphere with implications for the future. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. 39, 489-516 (2011).
12. Zeebe, R. E., Zachos, J. C. & Dickens, G. R. Carbon dioxide forcing alone insufficient to explain Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming. Nat. Geosci. 2, 576-580 (2009).
13. Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Archer, D. & Zachos, J. C. An ancient carbon mystery. Science 314, 1556-1557 (2006). (Pubitemid 44907139)
14. Dickens, G. R., O'Neil, J. R., Rea, D. K. & Owen, R. M. Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene. Paleoceanography 10, 965-971 (1995). (Pubitemid 26462021)
15. Sluijs, A. & Dickens, G. R. Assessing offsets between the SC of sedimentary components and the global exogenic carbon pool across early Paleogene carbon cycle perturbations. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 26 10.1029/2011GB004224 doi:10.1029/2011gb004224 (2012).
16. Schouten, S. et al. The Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion in higher plant organic matter: differential fractionation of angiosperms and conifers in the Arctic. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 258, 581-592 (2007). (Pubitemid 46852152)
17. Smith, F. A., Wing, S. L. & Freeman, K. H. Magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: the role of plant community change. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 262, 50-65 (2007). (Pubitemid 47440454)
18. Pagani, M. et al. Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 442, 671-675 (2006). (Pubitemid 44215319)
19. Kohn, M. J. Carbon isotope compositions of terrestrial C3 plants as indicators of (paleo)ecology and (paleo)climate. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 19691-19695 (2010).
20. 4 photosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 125, 46-49 (2001). (Pubitemid 32116723)
21. 2 concentration. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 2599-2608 (1995). (Pubitemid 26440879)
22. 2 Levels. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University (1996).
23. 13C. J. Geophys. Res. 116, G04022 (2011).
24. 2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 73, 4635-4647 (2009).
25. McCarroll, D. et al. Correction of tree ring stable isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 73, 1539-1547 (2009).
26. 3 land plants. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 96, 29-43 (2012).
27. Cui, Y. et al. Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nat. Geosci. 4, 481-485 (2011).
28. Schoon, P. L., Sluijs, A., Damsté, J. S. S. & Schouten, S. Stable carbon isotope patterns of marine biomarker lipids in the Arctic Ocean during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Paleoceanography 26, PA3215 (2011).
29. Weijers, J. W. H., Schouten, S., Schefuß, E., Schneider, R. R. & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: a multi-proxy approach in a 20, 000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 73, 119-132 (2009).
30. Gordon, E. S. & Goni, M. A. Sources and distribution of terrigenous organic matter delivered by the Atchafalaya River to sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 67, 2359-2375 (2003). (Pubitemid 36844987)
31. Schmitz, B. & Pujalte, V. Abrupt increase in seasonal extreme precipitation at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Geology 35, 215-218 (2007). (Pubitemid 46437824)
32. Wing, S. L. et al. Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science 310, 993-996 (2005). (Pubitemid 41611906)
33. Secord, R., Gingerich, P. D., Lohmann, K. C. & MacLeod, K. G. Continental warming preceding the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 467, 955-958 (2010).
34. Larrasoana, J. C. et al. Magnetotactic bacterial response to Antarctic dust supply during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 333-334, 122-133 (2012).
35. Kraus, M. J. & Riggins, S. Transient drying during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): analysis of paleosols in the bighorn basin, Wyoming. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 245, 444-461 (2007). (Pubitemid 46241252)
36. Handley, L. et al. Changes in the hydrological cycle in tropical East Africa during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 329-330, 10-21 (2012).
37. Storme, J. Y. et al. Cycles of humid-dry climate conditions around the P/E boundary: new stable isotope data from terrestrial organic matter in Vasterival section (NW France). Terr. Nova 24, 114-122 (2012).
38. 13C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 5738-5743 (2010).
39. Winguth, A., Shellito, C, Shields, C. & Winguth, C. Climate response at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum to greenhouse gas forcing-A model study with CCSM3. J. Clim. 23, 2562-2584 (2010).
40. John, C. M. et al. Clay assemblage and oxygen isotopic constraints on the weathering response to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, east coast of North America. Geology 40, 591-594 (2012).
41. Foreman, B. Z., Heller, P. L. & Clementz, M. T. Fluvial response to abrupt global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 491, 92-95 (2012).
42. Dickens, G. R. Down the rabbit hole: toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events. Clim. Past 7, 831-846 (2011).
43. Paleocene-Eocene McCarren, H., Thomas, E., Hasegawa, T., Röhl, U. & Zachos, J. C. Depth dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion: paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208, Walvis Ridge). Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 9, Q10008 (2008).
44. Zachos, J. C., Dickens, G. R. & Zeebe, R. E. An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature 451, 279-283 (2008).
45. Caldeira, K. & Wickett, M. E. Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH. Nature 425, 365 (2003). (Pubitemid 37187256)
46. 2 during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Geobiology 10, 298-310 (2012).
47. Sluijs, A. et al. Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 450, 1218-1221 (2007).
48. Lunt, D. J. et al. A model for orbital pacing of methane hydrate destabilization during the Palaeogene. Nat. Geosci. 4, 775-778 (2011).
49. DeConto, R. M. et al. Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost. Nature 484, 87-92 (2012).
50. Lourens, L. J. et al. Astronomical pacing of late Palaeocene to early Eocene global warming events. Nature 435, 1083-1087 (2005). (Pubitemid 40910512)
51. Diefendorf, A. F., Freeman, K. H., Wing, S. L. & Graham, H. V. Production of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 75, 7472-7485 (2011).
52. 2 change: evaluating geochemical and paleobiological approaches. Earth Sci. Rev. 54, 349-393 (2001).
53. Svensen, H. et al. Release of methane from a volcanic basin as a mechanism for initial Eocene global warming. Nature 429, 542-545 (2004).
54. Kurtz, A. C., Kump, L. R., Arthur, M. A., Zachos, J. C. & Paytan, A. Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles. Paleoceanography 18, doi:10.1029/2003pa000908 (2003).
55. Higgins, J. A. & Schrag, D. P. Beyond methane: towards a theory for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 245, 523-537 (2006).
56. Panchuk, K., Ridgwell, A. & Kump, L. R. Sedimentary response to Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon release: a model-data comparison. Geology 36, 315-318 (2008). (Pubitemid 351753228)
57. 2: a comparative evaluation of available geochemical proxies. Paleoceanography 25, doi:10.1029/2009pa001851 (2010).
58. 2 signature of air. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 13, Q0AI03 (2012).
59. IPCC. Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. IPCC, 2001.