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Cryogenian Glaciation and the Onset of Carbon-Isotope Decoupling
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A Dip in the Carbon Pool: Before the diversity of animal life exploded in the Cambrian, Earth's carbon cycle was apparently strongly altered by multiple glaciation events across the globe. Carbon isotope signatures from rocks in Australia measured by Swanson-Hysell et al. (p. 608 ) suggest that an organic carbon reservoir formed between two global glaciations, or “snowball Earth,” several hundred million years earlier than expected. Anoxic sulfate-limited waters, caused by increased river outputs from melting glaciers, may have prohibited bacterial respiration, allowing for the accumulation of organic carbon. As organic carbon levels dropped, CO 2 was released, allowing the atmosphere to warm, preventing further glaciations, and permitting the eventual accumulation of oxygen in the oceans that led to the Cambrian explosion.
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“The carbon isotope decoupling observed in the Neoproterozoic δ13C record61 (where δ13Ccarb varies but δ13Corg is near constant) can, as previously proposed496162, be explained by the recycling of detrital organic carbon.”
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- Authors
- Swanson-Hysell, N. L., Rose, C. V., Calmet, C. C., Halverson, G. P., Hurtgen, M. T., & Maloof, A. C.
- Affiliations
- Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
- Princeton University (US)
- McGill University (CA)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Maloof, Adam C.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-04-30
- Volume
- 328
- Issue
- 5978
- Pages
- 608-611
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2084911169
- Cited by
- 208
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 10.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Keywords
- Cryogenian glaciation, Sturtian glaciation, Marinoan glaciation, organic carbon pools, carbonate carbon isotopes, organic carbon isotopes, paleogeography, global glaciation
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