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Carbon dioxide emissions from Deccan Volcanism and a K/T boundary Greenhouse Effect
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A greenhouse warming caused by increased emissions of carbon dioxide from the Deccan Traps volcanism has been suggested as the cause of the terminal Cretaceous extinctions on land and in the sea. We estimate total eruptive and noneruptive CO 2 output by the Deccan eruptions (from 6 to 20 × 10 16 moles) over a period of several hundred thousand years based on best estimates of the CO 2 weight fraction of the original basalts and basaltic melts, the fraction of CO 2 degassed, and the volume of the Deccan Traps eruptions. Results of a model designed to estimate the effects of increased CO 2 on climate and ocean chemistry suggest that increases in atmospheric pCO 2 due to Deccan Traps CO 2 emissions would have been less than 75 ppm, leading to a predicted global warming of less than 1°C over several hundred thousand years. We conclude that the direct climate effects of CO 2 emissions from the Deccan eruptions would have been too weak to be an important factor in the end‐Cretaceous mass extinctions.
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- Caldeira, K., & Rampino, M. R.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies (US)
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- Geophysical Research Letters
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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- 1990-08
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1299-1302
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- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
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- journal article
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- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- Deccan Traps, CO2 emissions, greenhouse effect, Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, end-Cretaceous mass extinction, atmospheric CO2, volcanic degassing, global warming, seawater chemistry
- MeSH terms
- Atmosphere, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Chemistry, Climate, Biological Evolution, Geology, Models, Chemical, Oceans and Seas, Paleontology, Temperature, Greenhouse Effect, Volcanic Eruptions, Geological Phenomena, Chemical Phenomena
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