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Atmospheric CO2 decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations
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Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the onset of intensive glaciations on Greenland, Scandinavia, and North America during the Pliocene epoch between 3.6 and 2.7 million years ago (Ma). A decrease in atmospheric CO 2 may have played a role during the onset of glaciations, but other tectonic and oceanic events occurring at the same time may have played a part as well. Here we present detailed atmospheric CO 2 estimates from boron isotopes in planktic foraminifer shells spanning 4.6–2.0 Ma. Maximal Pliocene atmospheric CO 2 estimates gradually declined from values around 410 μ atm to early Pleistocene values of 300 μ atm at 2.0 Ma. After the onset of large‐scale ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere, maximal p CO 2 estimates were still at 2.5 Ma +90 μ atm higher than values characteristic of the early Pleistocene interglacials. By contrast, Pliocene minimal atmospheric CO 2 gradually decreased from 310 to 245 μ atm at 3.2 Ma, coinciding with the start of transient glaciations on Greenland. Values characteristic of early Pleistocene glacial atmospheric CO 2 of 200 μ atm were abruptly reached after 2.7 Ma during the late Pliocene transition. This trend is consistent with the suggestion that ocean stratification and iron fertilization increased after 2.7 Ma in the North Pacific and Southern Ocean and may have led to increased glacial CO 2 storage in the oceanic abyss after 2.7 Ma onward.
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- Authors
- Bartoli, G., Hönisch, B., & Zeebe, R. E.
- Venue
- Paleoceanography
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2011-11-16
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0883-8305 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-9186
- OpenAlex
- W2127070782
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- 309
- References
- 76
- FWCI
- 7.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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