Triple oxygen isotope mass balance for the Earth's oceans with application to Archean cherts
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The oxygen isotope composition of the Earth's oceans is buffered by high- and low-T exchange with the lithosphere. We present a triple oxygen isotope mass balance model for the Earth's oceans. The model is based on triple oxygen isotope measurements of rocks from various reservoirs including high- and low-T alteration products. The modern ocean water composition can be well-matched if the ratio between continental weathering and high-T seafloor alteration is ~25% higher than previously assumed. The mass balance suggests that putative Precambrian low-δ18O ocean water would fall on a trend with slope λ = 0.51 passing through “modern” ice-free-world seawater. Exemplified application to a published Phanerozoic and Archean chert data suggest precipitation in cool oceans with modern-like δ18O followed by diagenetic alteration with involvement of meteoric water.
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“Last, the triple O isotope composition of Archean cherts cannot be reconciled with equilibrium precipitation from seawater and requires alteration (239).”
BackgroundWostbrock, J. A. G., Brand, U., Coplen, T. B., Swart, P. K., Carlson, S. J., Brearley, A. J., & Sharp, Z. D. (2020) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.07.045 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
- Authors
- Sengupta, S., & Pack, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Sengupta, Sukanya
- ORCID
- Pack, Andreas
- Venue
- Chemical Geology
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 495
- Pages
- 18-26
- ISSN
- 0009-2541 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2885787650
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 74
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- 5.52
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- en
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- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (PA 909/14-1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- triple oxygen isotopes, oxygen isotopes, continental weathering, seafloor alteration, meteoric water, diagenesis
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