Carbon sequestration in an expanded lake system during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event

Xu, Weimu; Ruhl, Micha; Jenkyns, Hugh C.; Hesselbo, Stephen P.; Riding, James B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-8989; Selby, David; Naafs, B. David A.; Weijers, Johan W. H.; Pancost, Richard D.; Tegelaar, Erik W.; Idiz, Erdem F.. 2017 Carbon sequestration in an expanded lake system during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. Nature Geoscience, 10 (2). 129-134. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2871

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Abstract/Summary

The Early Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (~183 Ma) was marked by marine anoxia–euxinia and globally significant organic-matter burial, accompanied by a major global carbon-cycle perturbation probably linked to Karoo–Ferrar volcanism. Although the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event is well studied in the marine realm, accompanying climatic and environmental change on the continents is poorly understood. Here, utilizing radioisotopic, palynological and geochemical data from lacustrine black shales, we demonstrate that a large lake system developed contemporaneously with the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in the Sichuan Basin, China, probably due to enhanced hydrological cycling under elevated atmospheric pCO 2. We attribute increased lacustrine organic productivity to elevated fluvial nutrient supply, which resulted in the burial of ~460 Gt of organic carbon in the Sichuan Basin alone, creating an important negative feedback in the global exogenic carbon cycle. We suggest that enhanced nutrient delivery to marine and large lacustrine systems was a key component in the global carbon cycle recovery during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event and acted to shorten the duration of the recovery of global δ13C values.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2871
ISSN:	1752-0894
Date made live:	12 May 2017 08:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517016

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2871

ISSN:

1752-0894

Date made live:

12 May 2017 08:21 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517016