DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-883-2016
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84964685837
论文题名: Stable isotope and calcareous nannofossil assemblage record of the late Paleocene and early Eocene (Cicogna section)
作者: Agnini C. ; Spofforth D.J.A. ; Dickens G.R. ; Rio D. ; Pälike H. ; Backman J. ; Muttoni G. ; Dallanave E.
刊名: Climate of the Past
ISSN: 18149324
出版年: 2016
卷: 12, 期: 4 起始页码: 883
结束页码: 909
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: calcium carbonate
; carbon cycle
; climate forcing
; diagenesis
; dissolution
; Eocene
; fossil record
; nanofossil
; nanoplankton
; oxygen isotope
; Paleocene
; Paleogene
; population decline
; relative abundance
; sedimentary rock
; stable isotope
; Italy
; Coccolithus
; Discoaster
英文摘要: We present records of stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, CaCO3 content, and changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages across an 81m 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 52.2Ma, a multi-million-year time interval characterized by perturbations in the global carbon cycle and changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages. The bulk carbonate δ13C 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 δ13C and multiple short-term carbon isotope excursions (CIEs). This precise correlation of widely separated δ13C records in marine sequences results from temporal changes in the carbon composition of the exogenic carbon cycle. However, diagenesis has likely modified the δ13C record at Cicogna, an interpretation supported by variations in bulk carbonate δ18O, 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 Toweius, 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 δ13C records and oceanography will need additional work. © 2016 Author(s). 资助项目: NSF, National Science Foundation
; Swedish Research Council
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49029
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Agnini C.,Spofforth D.J.A.,Dickens G.R.,et al. Stable isotope and calcareous nannofossil assemblage record of the late Paleocene and early Eocene (Cicogna section)[J]. Climate of the Past,2016-01-01,12(4)