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Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

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Huntington, K. W., Wernicke, B. P., Eiler, J. M.·2010·Tectonics
DOI 10.1029/2009tc002449
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The elevation history of Earth's surface is key to understanding the geodynamic processes responsible for the rise of plateaus. We investigate the timing of Colorado Plateau uplift by estimating depositional temperatures of Tertiary lake sediments that blanket the plateau interior and adjacent lowlands using carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry (a measure of the temperature‐dependent enrichment of 13 C‐18 O bonds in carbonates). Comparison of modern and ancient samples deposited near sea level provides an opportunity to quantify the influence of climate and therefore assess the contribution of changes in elevation to the variations of surface temperature on the plateau. Analysis of modern lake calcite from 350 to 3300 m elevation in the southwestern United States reveals a lake water carbonate temperature (LCT) lapse rate of 4.2 ± 0.6°C/km. Analysis of Miocene deposits from 88 to 1900 m elevation in the Colorado River drainage suggests that the ancient LCT lapse rate was 4.1 ± 0.7°C/km, and temperatures were 7.7 ± 2.0°C warmer at any one elevation than predicted by the modern trend. The inferred cooling is plausible in light of Pliocene temperature estimates off the coast of California, and the consistency of lapse rates through time supports the interpretation that there has been little or no elevation change for any of the samples since 6 Ma. Together with previous paleorelief estimates from apatite (U‐Th)/He data from the Grand Canyon, our results suggest most or all of the plateau's lithospheric buoyancy was acquired ∼80–60 Ma and do not support explanations that ascribe most plateau uplift to Oligocene or younger disposal of either the Farallon or North American mantle lithosphere.

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  • Early workers showed the power of clumped isotope data to develop previously impossible environmental temperature and δ18Ow reconstructions from terrestrial carbonates including pedogenic carbonates, lake sediments and freshwater mollusks, land snails, and spring and cave deposits.

    “Early workers showed the power of clumped isotope data to get around this problem, developing previously impossible environmental temperature and δ 18 O w reconstructions from terrestrial carbonates including ancient pedogenic (soil) carbonates (e.g., Ghosh et al. 2006b, Passey et al. 2010), lake sediments and freshwater mollusks (e.g., Huntington et al. 2010, Dennis et al. 2013, Hren et al. 2013,”

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  • Clumped isotope datasets can constrain paleotopography and tectonics.

    “Such datasets can also constrain paleotopography and tectonics (e.g., Ghosh et al. 2006b, Huntington et al. 2010, Garzione et al. 2014, Li et al. 2019, Rugenstein et al. 2022).”

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Authors
Huntington, K. W., Wernicke, B. P., & Eiler, J. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • California Institute of Technology (US)
ORCID
Venue
Tectonics
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Published
2010-05-25
Volume
29
Issue
3
ISSN
  • 0278-7407 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-9194
DOI
10.1029/2009tc002449
OpenAlex
W1751304872
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154
References
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FWCI
5.94
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Tectonics (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Keywords
Colorado Plateau, plateau uplift, paleotemperature, carbonate clumped isotopes, lapse rate, Miocene climate, lithospheric buoyancy, Grand Canyon

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