Journal
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
Volume 528, Issue -, Pages 160-174Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.04.018
Keywords
Paleozoic; Carbonate; Anoxia; REE; Isotope excursion; Paleoredox
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This study reports data from the Upper Cambrian Conasauga Group and overlying Copper Ridge Formation of the Central Appalachian region, eastern U.S.A. Geochemical, isotopic and petrographic analysis of core material was carried out to constrain the extent of marine anoxia and to characterize sediment fluxes on the carbonate platform and continental shelf of Laurentia contemporaneous with the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), a Late Cambrian global marine anoxic event. Carbonate rocks (primarily dolostone) record a positive delta C-13(carb), excursion starting in the middle Nolichucky Formation, reaching its peak (+ 4.3 parts per thousand) at the boundary between the Maynardville and Copper Ridge formations. Strontium isotope ratios in the dolostone units are only slightly offset from the expected Cambrian seawater values, suggesting minimal post-diagenetic disturbance of isotopic and trace element systematics. Selective leaching of carbonate units reveal upward decreasing trends in dissolved redox-sensitive trace metals (e.g., U, Ni, V) indicative of drawdown from regional and global marine anoxia during the peak of the Late Cambrian SPICE event.
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