TY - JOUR
T1 - Early Aptian paleoenvironmental evolution of the Bab Basin at the southern Neo-Tethys margin
T2 - Response to global carbon-cycle perturbations across Ocean Anoxic Event 1a
AU - Yamamoto, Kazuyuki
AU - Ishibashi, Masatoshi
AU - Takayanagi, Hideko
AU - Asahara, Yoshihiro
AU - Sato, Tokiyuki
AU - Nishi, Hiroshi
AU - Iryu, Yasufumi
PY - 2013/4/1
Y1 - 2013/4/1
N2 - Lower Aptian carbonates in the Bab Basin at the southern Neo-Tethys margin record significant environmental changes across Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a). A long-lasting negative shift of carbon-isotope ratios (δ13C) associated with a distinct decrease in oxygen-isotope ratios (δ18O) in orbitolinid-rich carbonates characterizes the onset of OAE1a (Livello Selli), supporting a hypothesis that a long-lasting volcanic CO2 emission is the main cause of OAE1a, inducing global warming. A bloom of microencrusters (Lithocodium and Bacinella) across the proto-Bab Basin occurred synchronously at the beginning of the subsequent positive δ13C excursion, responding to the global carbon-cycle perturbations. The carbonates, formed during the OAE1a, show higher strontium-isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) compared with those of global seawater; this was likely caused by a local influx of isotopically heavier strontium, along with nutrients, into the proto-Bab Basin. These biotic proliferations were triggered by an increased nutrient supply induced by intensified continental weathering due to the global warming suggested by the increase in δ18O values. Spatial variations in the δ13C values among sites in the Bab Basin and its surrounding platform are related to local environmental factors, such as the degree of mixing of basin water with ocean water and local removal of 12C by metabolic activity at the platform-top. The δ13C profile of the studied core indicates global removal of organic carbon of OAE1a began during the early stage of the second-order transgression and lasted until the early stage of the highstand after the OAE1a. The Livello Selli corresponds to the early stage of this transgression.
AB - Lower Aptian carbonates in the Bab Basin at the southern Neo-Tethys margin record significant environmental changes across Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a). A long-lasting negative shift of carbon-isotope ratios (δ13C) associated with a distinct decrease in oxygen-isotope ratios (δ18O) in orbitolinid-rich carbonates characterizes the onset of OAE1a (Livello Selli), supporting a hypothesis that a long-lasting volcanic CO2 emission is the main cause of OAE1a, inducing global warming. A bloom of microencrusters (Lithocodium and Bacinella) across the proto-Bab Basin occurred synchronously at the beginning of the subsequent positive δ13C excursion, responding to the global carbon-cycle perturbations. The carbonates, formed during the OAE1a, show higher strontium-isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) compared with those of global seawater; this was likely caused by a local influx of isotopically heavier strontium, along with nutrients, into the proto-Bab Basin. These biotic proliferations were triggered by an increased nutrient supply induced by intensified continental weathering due to the global warming suggested by the increase in δ18O values. Spatial variations in the δ13C values among sites in the Bab Basin and its surrounding platform are related to local environmental factors, such as the degree of mixing of basin water with ocean water and local removal of 12C by metabolic activity at the platform-top. The δ13C profile of the studied core indicates global removal of organic carbon of OAE1a began during the early stage of the second-order transgression and lasted until the early stage of the highstand after the OAE1a. The Livello Selli corresponds to the early stage of this transgression.
KW - Aptian
KW - Neo-Tethys
KW - Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a
KW - carbon-isotope stratigraphy
KW - carbonate
KW - strontium-isotope stratigraphy
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U2 - 10.1002/ggge.20083
DO - 10.1002/ggge.20083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878417994
SN - 1525-2027
VL - 14
SP - 1104
EP - 1130
JO - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
IS - 4
ER -