Sulfur isotopes in rivers: Insights into global weathering budgets, pyrite oxidation, and the modern sulfur cycle

被引:176
作者
Burke, Andrea [1 ,2 ]
Present, Theodore M. [2 ]
Paris, Guillaume [2 ,3 ]
Rae, Emily C. M. [1 ]
Sandilands, Brodie H. [1 ]
Gaillardet, Jerome [4 ,5 ]
Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard [6 ]
Fischer, Woodward W. [2 ]
McClelland, James W. [7 ]
Spencer, Robert G. M. [8 ]
Voss, Britta M. [6 ]
Adkins, Jess F. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
[2] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] CNRS, CRPG, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France
[4] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, CNRS, IPGP, Paris, France
[5] Inst Univ France, Paris, France
[6] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
[7] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[8] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
sulfur; rivers; weathering; pyrite; FLUVIAL GEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLVED SULFATE; ATMOSPHERIC O-2; EASTERN SIBERIA; ORGANIC-CARBON; FRASER-RIVER; BASIN; CO2; STRONTIUM; SULFIDE;
D O I
10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.022
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
070403 [天体物理学]; 070902 [地球化学];
摘要
The biogeochemical sulfur cycle is intimately linked to the cycles of carbon, iron, and oxygen, and plays an important role in global climate via weathering reactions and aerosols. However, many aspects of the modern budget of the global sulfur cycle are not fully understood. We present new delta S-34 measurements on sulfate from more than 160 river samples from different geographical and climatic regions-more than 46% of the world's freshwater flux to the ocean is accounted for in this estimate of the global riverine sulfur isotope budget. These measurements include major rivers and their tributaries, as well as time series, and are combined with previously published data to estimate the modern flux-weighted global riverine delta S-34 as 4.4 +/- 4.5 parts per thousand (V-CDT), and 4.8 +/- 4.9 parts per thousand when the most polluted rivers are excluded. The sulfur isotope data, when combined with major anion and cation concentrations, allow us to tease apart the relative contributions of different processes to the modern riverine sulfur budget, resulting in new estimates of the flux of riverine sulfate due to the oxidative weathering of pyrites (1.3 +/- 0.2 Tmol Sly) and the weathering of sedimentary sulfate minerals (1.5 +/- 0.2 Tmol Sly). These data indicate that previous estimates of the global oxidative weathering of pyrite have been too low by a factor of two. As pyrite oxidation coupled to carbonate weathering can act as a source of CO2 to the atmosphere, this global pyrite weathering budget implies that the global CO2 weathering sink is overestimated. Furthermore, the large range of sulfur isotope ratios in modern rivers indicates that secular changes in the lithologies exposed to weathering through time could play a major role in driving past variations in the 6345 value of seawater. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:168 / 177
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