Opening Pandora's Box: The impact of open system modeling on interpretations of anoxia

Hotinski, Roberta M.; Kump, Lee R.; Najjar, Raymond G.

doi:10.1029/1999pa000408

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Opening Pandora's Box: The impact of open system modeling on interpretations of anoxia

Hotinski, Roberta M., Kump, Lee R., Najjar, Raymond G.·2000·Paleoceanography

DOI 10.1029/1999pa000408

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The geologic record preserves evidence that vast regions of ancient oceans were once anoxic, with oxygen levels too low to sustain animal life. Because anoxic conditions have been postulated to foster deposition of petroleum source rocks and have been implicated as a kill mechanism in extinction events, the genesis of such anoxia has been an area of intense study. Most previous models of ocean oxygen cycling proposed, however, have either been qualitative or used closed‐system approaches. We reexamine the question of anoxia in open‐system box models in order to test the applicability of closed‐system results over long timescales and find that open and closed‐system modeling results may differ significantly on both short and long timescales. We also compare a scenario with basinwide diffuse upwelling (a three‐box model) to a model with upwelling concentrated in the Southern Ocean (a four‐box model). While a three‐box modeling approach shows that only changes in high‐latitude convective mixing rate and character of deepwater sources are likely to cause anoxia, four‐box model experiments indicate that slowing of thermohaline circulation, a reduction in wind‐driven upwelling, and changes in high‐latitude export production may also cause dysoxia or anoxia in part of the deep ocean on long timescales. These results suggest that box models must capture the open‐system and vertically stratified nature of the ocean to allow meaningful interpretations of long‐lived episodes of anoxia.

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Authors: Hotinski, R. M., Kump, L. R., & Najjar, R. G.
Affiliations: Pennsylvania State University (US)
ORCID: Hotinski, Roberta M.
Kump, Lee R.
Najjar, Raymond G.
Venue: Paleoceanography
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Published: 2000-06
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Pages: 267-279
ISSN: 0883-8305 (ISSN-L)
1944-9186
DOI: 10.1029/1999pa000408
OpenAlex: W2092401146
Cited by: 36
References: 33
Citations by year: 2024: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 4.31
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3624 d)
Locations: Paleoceanography (publishedVersion)
Funders: Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal ecosystems
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Keywords: ocean anoxia, dysoxia, thermohaline circulation, wind-driven upwelling, Southern Ocean, export production, petroleum source rocks, mass extinction

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