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Sea level, biotic and carbon-isotope response to the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum in Tibetan Himalayan platform carbonates
- Source :
- Global and Planetary Change. 194:103316
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- During the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ~56 Ma), a large, negative carbon-isotope excursion (CIE) testifies to a massive perturbation of the global carbon cycle. Shallow-marine settings are crucial to understand the environmental and ecological changes associated with the PETM and the connection between continental and open-marine environments. Detailed sedimentological, paleontological, and geochemical analysis of a quasi-continuous succession of shallow-marine carbonates in the Tethys Himalaya of southern Tibet indicates that a relative rise in sea level coincided with PETM onset, continued through PETM core, and terminated with a regression at PETM recovery. At PETM onset, corresponding to the SBZ4/SBZ5 boundary, no obvious impact on biota and specifically on larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) is observed. The major biotic change occurs later on at PETM recovery, corresponding to the SBZ5/SBZ6 boundary. Our data suggest that relative sea level, rather than temperature, exerted the main control on benthic biota during the PETM. Although the δ13Corg values of organic matter are similar in the deep sea and shallow-marine continental margins, the δ13Ccarb value of bulk carbonates are significantly 13C-depleted, which we attribute to environmental change driven by relative sea-level fluctuations.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Environmental change
Southern Tibet
02 engineering and technology
Oceanography
01 natural sciences
Deep sea
Carbon cycle
Foraminifera
Paleontology
Biotic response
Continental margin
Relative sea-level change
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Shallow-water carbonate ramp
Sea level
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Global and Planetary Change
biology
Carbon isotope
Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum
020206 networking & telecommunications
biology.organism_classification
Benthic zone
Isotopes of carbon
Geology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09218181
- Volume :
- 194
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Global and Planetary Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e99b0bf25259dcfc1ffbed063ca63e5a