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The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle: CO2 and O2
Abstract
The term "carbon cycle" is normally thought to mean those processes that govern the present-day transfer of carbon between life, the atmosphere, and the oceans. This book describes another carbon cycle, one which operates over millions of years and involves the transfer of carbon between rocks and the combination of life, the atmosphere, and the oceans. The weathering of silicate and carbonate rocks and ancient sedimentary organic matter (including recent, large-scale human-induced burning of fossil fuels), the burial of organic matter and carbonate minerals in sediments, and volcanic degassing of carbon dioxide contribute to this cycle. In The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle, Robert Berner shows how carbon cycle models can be used to calculate levels of atmospheric CO2 and O2 over Phanerozoic time, the past 550 million years, and how results compare with independent methods. His analysis has implications for such disparate subjects as the evolution of land plants, the presence of giant ancient insects, the role of tectonics in paleoclimate, and the current debate over global warming and greenhouse gases
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“Such models are corroborated through geochemical and isotopic paleoclimate proxies over geologic time (Berner, 2004; Mackenzie and Lerman, 2006; Kump et al., 2010; Langmuir and Broecker, 2012).”
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“The principal cause of the proposed high O 2 levels was probably the evolution of the large vascular land plants that brought about increased O 2 production and increased O 2 levels due to the enhanced global burial of microbially resistant, lignin-rich organic matter during the Permo–Carboni-ferous (Berner 2004).”
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“The GEOCARB models (Berner, 2004; Berner and Kothavala 2001) take a similar approach, but they also assume continuous equilibrium of CaCO3 compensation and atmosphere ocean gas exchange.”
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- Authors
- Berner, R. A.
- Corresponding author
- Berner, Robert A.
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2004-09-02
- OpenAlex
- W2798800744
- Cited by
- 679
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.46
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- 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 › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Keywords
- atmospheric CO2, atmospheric oxygen, silicate weathering, carbonate weathering, organic matter burial, volcanic degassing, carbon cycle models, paleoclimate, land plant evolution, giant insects, tectonics, global warming, greenhouse gases, fossil fuel combustion
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