TY - JOUR
T1 - Carbon cycle dynamics linked with Karoo-Ferrar volcanism and astronomical cycles during Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Early Jurassic)
AU - Ikeda, Masayuki
AU - Hori, Rie S.
AU - Ikehara, Minoru
AU - Miyashita, Ren
AU - Chino, Masashi
AU - Yamada, Kazuyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank P. Baumgartner, and M. Bôle (University of Lausanne), D. Gröcke and R. Tada, S. Yamamoto, A. Karasuda (The University of Tokyo), and A. Kitamura (Shizuoka University) for their critical discussion. This research was partly supported by grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research project, no. 26800266 and 18K13647 awarded to M. Ikeda. The carbon isotopic study was performed under the cooperative research program of the Center for Advanced Marine Core Research (CMCR), Kochi University, Japan (accept no. 13A015/13B015 ).
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PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - One of the most profound environmental changes in the Mesozoic occurred during the Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Pl/To) time interval, including massive black shale deposition across Pl/To boundary and early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). These events are associated with negative carbon isotope excursions (CIEs), but their temporal link with 12C-rich carbon injection, possibly related with Karoo-Ferrar volcanisms and carbon cycle feedbacks, such as terrestrial methanogenesis and methane hydrate dissociation, is still debated. Here we present a new chemostratigraphy of the carbon isotopic ratio of organic matter (δ13Corg) from Pl/To deep-sea successions, in conjunction with bio-astrochronology. The deep-sea successions are located at the Katsuyama and Sakahogi outcrops in the Inuyama area, Japan, and contain two black bedded chert intervals named T-BBCs 1 and 2, which have astrochronologic ages of 183.25–183.01 ± 0.2 Ma and 183.55–182.80 ± 0.2 Ma. Negative CIEs of ~2‰ and ~5‰ are recognized across the base of T-BBCs 1 and 2, respectively, which are correlated with Pl/To boundary and classical T-OAE in shallow marine sections based on biostratigraphy. Astrochronologic ages of the onset of T-BBCs 1 and 2 are within the errors of the oldest high-precision U-Pb ages of Karoo and Ferrar LIPs, respectively. These temporal relations suggest a link between the 12C-rich carbon injection associated with Karoo and Ferrar volcanism, and CIEs associated with widespread black shale deposition across the Pl/To and T-OAE, respectively. Obliquity cycles in classic T-OAE CIE could have linked with terrestrial methanogenesis and methane hydrate dissociation in high-latitudes areas, whereas 405-kyr pacing of termination of T-CIE and T-BBCs deposition would be related with decreased chemical weathering and nutrient supply under weaker monsoon intensity, and possibly suppressed methane cycle across the termination of Pl/To and T-OAE periods.
AB - One of the most profound environmental changes in the Mesozoic occurred during the Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Pl/To) time interval, including massive black shale deposition across Pl/To boundary and early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). These events are associated with negative carbon isotope excursions (CIEs), but their temporal link with 12C-rich carbon injection, possibly related with Karoo-Ferrar volcanisms and carbon cycle feedbacks, such as terrestrial methanogenesis and methane hydrate dissociation, is still debated. Here we present a new chemostratigraphy of the carbon isotopic ratio of organic matter (δ13Corg) from Pl/To deep-sea successions, in conjunction with bio-astrochronology. The deep-sea successions are located at the Katsuyama and Sakahogi outcrops in the Inuyama area, Japan, and contain two black bedded chert intervals named T-BBCs 1 and 2, which have astrochronologic ages of 183.25–183.01 ± 0.2 Ma and 183.55–182.80 ± 0.2 Ma. Negative CIEs of ~2‰ and ~5‰ are recognized across the base of T-BBCs 1 and 2, respectively, which are correlated with Pl/To boundary and classical T-OAE in shallow marine sections based on biostratigraphy. Astrochronologic ages of the onset of T-BBCs 1 and 2 are within the errors of the oldest high-precision U-Pb ages of Karoo and Ferrar LIPs, respectively. These temporal relations suggest a link between the 12C-rich carbon injection associated with Karoo and Ferrar volcanism, and CIEs associated with widespread black shale deposition across the Pl/To and T-OAE, respectively. Obliquity cycles in classic T-OAE CIE could have linked with terrestrial methanogenesis and methane hydrate dissociation in high-latitudes areas, whereas 405-kyr pacing of termination of T-CIE and T-BBCs deposition would be related with decreased chemical weathering and nutrient supply under weaker monsoon intensity, and possibly suppressed methane cycle across the termination of Pl/To and T-OAE periods.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.08.012
DO - 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.08.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052879489
VL - 170
SP - 163
EP - 171
JO - Global and Planetary Change
JF - Global and Planetary Change
SN - 0921-8181
ER -
