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Authigenic Carbonate and the History of the Global Carbon Cycle

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Schrag, Daniel P., Higgins, John. A., Macdonald, Francis A., Johnston, David T.·2013·Science

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The Third Way: Because organic carbon contains a larger fraction of the light isotope 12 C than inorganic carbonate, variations in the carbon isotopic record of sedimentary rocks are thought to represent changes in the amount of organic carbon buried as sediments (and thus removed from the rest of the carbon cycle). Schrag et al. (p. 540 ; see the Perspective by Canfield and Kump ) suggest that historically a third component was important: authigenic carbonate. Authigenic carbonate is not produced in any appreciable quantity today, but was much more abundant when the level of atmospheric oxygen was low.

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Authors: Schrag, D. P., Higgins, J. A., Macdonald, F. A., & Johnston, D. T.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
Princeton University (US)
ORCID: Schrag, Daniel P.
Higgins, John. A.
Macdonald, Francis A.
Johnston, David T.
Venue: Science
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published: 2013-02
Volume: 339
Issue: 6119
Pages: 540-543
ISSN: 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229578
OpenAlex: W2114839168
Semantic Scholar: 271d01ca5514443dcc869aa77013e96976d7ffd6
Cited by: 532
References: 37
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FWCI: 26.42
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Licence: cc-by
Locations: Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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 › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords: authigenic carbonates, carbon cycle, carbon isotopes, early diagenesis, atmospheric oxygen, ocean anoxia, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Triassic, carbon isotope excursion
MeSH terms: Anaerobiosis, Atmosphere, Carbon Isotopes, Carbonates, Methane, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxygen, Geologic Sediments, Carbon Cycle

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