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PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH
Volume 321, Issue -, Pages 212-220Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.013
Keywords
Cryogenian non-glacial interval; Nanhua Basin; Organic carbon isotopes; Organic carbon reservoir; Oxygenation
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [41430104]
- CAGS research Fund [YYWF201603]
- State Key Laboratory of Organic geochemistry Fund [OGL-201416]
- NERC [NE/P013643/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The late-Cryogenian warm (non-glacial) interval (c.660-c.650 Ma) is potentially of great significance to the co-evolution between life and the surface environment during the emergence of animal life on Earth. In this study, three high-resolution organic carbon isotopic (delta C-13(org) records for the Datangpo/Xiangmeng Formation on the Yangtze Craton are presented. The data derive from drill cores representing different depositional settings at Daotuo (slope setting), Minle (shallow-water basin), and Xiangtan (basin), respectively. The Daotuo and Minle samples exhibit an overall increase of 6-8%o as well as significant isotopic fluctuations following the Tiesi'ao/Sturtian glaciation, while samples from the deeper Xiangtan section show relatively muted fluctuations (+/- 1 parts per thousand) and no overall trend over the same interval. These findings can be plausibly explained by a much longer residence time for marine organic matter, which may have acted as a redox buffer against oxygenation and climate change. The build-up and eventual oxidation of a sub-pycnocline organic carbon reservoir in the redox stratified non-glacial ocean could help to explain the extreme positive and negative carbon isotope perturbations, respectively, in time-equivalent shallow-marine carbonate Platform successions from Mongolia, Australia and Namibia.
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