Stable isotope and calcareous nannofossil assemblage record of the late Paleocene and early Eocene (Cicogna section)

被引:20
作者
Agnini, Claudia [1 ,2 ]
Spofforth, David J. A. [3 ]
Dickens, Gerald R. [4 ,5 ]
Rio, Domenico [1 ]
Palike, Heiko [6 ]
Backman, Jan [5 ]
Muttoni, Giovanni [7 ,8 ]
Dallanave, Edoardo [9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Geosci, Padua, Italy
[2] CNR, Ist Geosci & Georisorse, Padua, Italy
[3] CGG GeoSpec, Robertson, Llandudno, Wales
[4] Rice Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Houston, TX USA
[5] Univ Bremen, MARUM, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[6] Stockholm Univ, Dept Geol Sci, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[7] Univ Statale Milano, Dipartimento Sci Terra Ardito Desio, Milan, Italy
[8] Alpine Lab Paleomagnetism, Peveragno, CN, Italy
[9] Univ Munich, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Munich, Germany
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC-OCEAN; THERMAL MAXIMUM EVENT; ODP SITE 1263; MIDDLE EOCENE; NORTH-ATLANTIC; CARBON-CYCLE; CONTINENTAL-MARGIN; CLIMATIC OPTIMUM; GLOBAL CARBON; ALANO SECTION;
D O I
10.5194/cp-12-883-2016
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
070403 [天体物理学];
摘要
We present records of stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, CaCO3 content, and changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages across an 81 m thick section of upper Paleocene lower Eocene marine sedimentary rocks now exposed along the Cicogna Stream in northeast Italy. The studied stratigraphic section represents sediment accumulation in a bathyal hemipelagic setting from approximately 57.5 to 52.2 Ma, a multi-million-year time interval characterized by perturbations in the global carbon cycle and changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages. The bulk carbonate delta C-13 profile for the Cicogna section, once placed on a common timescale, resembles that at several other locations across the world, and includes both a long-term drop in delta C-13 and multiple short-term carbon isotope excursions (CIEs). This precise correlation of widely separated delta C-13 records in marine sequences results from temporal changes in the carbon composition of the exogenic carbon cycle. However, diagenesis has likely modified the delta C-13 record at Cicogna, an interpretation supported by variations in bulk carbonate 8180, which do not conform to expectations for a primary signal. The record of CaCO3 content reflects a combination of carbonate dilution and dissolution, as also inferred at other sites. Our detailed documentation and statistical analysis of calcareous nannofossil assemblages show major differences before, during and after the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. Other CIEs in our lower Paleogene section do not exhibit such a distinctive change; instead, these events are sometimes characterized by variations restricted to a limited number of taxa and transient shifts in the relative abundance of primary assemblage components. Both long-lasting and short-lived modifications to calcareous nannofossil assemblages preferentially affected nannoliths or holococcoliths such as Discoaster,, Fasciculithus, Rhomboaster/Tribrachiatus, Sphenolithus and Zygrhablithus, which underwent distinct variations in abundance as well as permanent evolutionary changes in terms of appearances and disappearances. By contrast, placoliths such as Coccolithus and Tow eius, which represent the main component of the assemblages, were characterized by a gradual decline in abundance over time. Comparisons of detailed nannofossil assemblage records at the Cicogna section and at ODP Site 1262 support the idea that variations in the relative and absolute abundances, even some minor changes, were globally synchronous. An obvious link is through climate forcing and carbon cycling, although the linkages between variations in calcareous nannoplankton, changes in delta C-13 records and oceanography will need additional work.
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