A Cenozoic seawater Sr/Ca record from benthic foraminiferal calcite and its application in determining global weathering fluxes

被引：115

作者：

Lear, CH

Elderfield, H

Wilson, PA

机构：

[1] Rutgers State Univ, Inst Marine & Coastal Sci, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA

[2] Univ Cambridge, Dept Earth Sci, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, England

[3] SOES, Southampton Oceanog Ctr, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England

来源：

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS | 2003年 / 208卷 / 1-2期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 英国自然环境研究理事会;

关键词：

global change; weathering; rivers; benthic taxa; seawater; paleoclimatology;

D O I：

10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01156-1

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

A Cenozoic mufti-species record of benthic foraminiferal calcite Sr/Ca has been produced and is corrected for interspecific offsets (typically less than 0.3 mmol/mol) and for the linear relationship between decreasing benthic foraminiferal Sr/Ca and increasing water depth. The water depth correction, determined from Holocene, Late Glacial Maximum and Eocene paleowater-depth transects, is similar to0.1 mmol/mol/km. The corrected Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal Sr/Ca record ranges from 1.2 to 2.0 mmol/mol, and has been interpreted in terms of long-term changes in seawater Sr/Ca, enabling issues related to higher-resolution variability in Sr/Ca to be ignored. We estimate that seawater Sr/Ca was similar to1.5 times modern values in the late Cretaceous, but declined rapidly into the Paleogene. Following a minimum in the Eocene, seawater Sr/Ca increased gradually through to the present day with a minimum superimposed on this trend centered in the late Miocene. By assuming scenarios for changing seawater calcium concentration, and using published carbonate accumulation rate data combined with suitable values for Sr partition coefficients into carbonates, the seawater Sr/Ca record is used to estimate global average river Sr fluxes. These fluxes are used in conjunction with the seawater strontium isotope curve and estimates of hydrothermal activity/tectonic outgassing to calculate changes in global average river Sr-87/Sr-86 through the Cenozoic. The absolute magnitude of Sr fluxes and isotopic compositions calculated in this way are subject to relatively large uncertainties. Nevertheless, our results suggest that river Sr flux increased from 35 Ma to the present day (roughly two-fold) accompanied by an overall increase in Sr-87/Sr-86 (by similar to0 to 0.001). Between 75 and 35 Ma, river Sr-87/Sr-86 also increased (by similar to0.001 to 0.002) but was accompanied by a decrease (two- to three-fold) in river Sr flux. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：69 / 84

页数：16

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