No evidence for anoxia during the Valanginian carbon isotope event—An organic-geochemical study from the Vocontian Basin, SE France
No evidence for anoxia during the Valanginian carbon isotope event—An organic-geochemical study from the Vocontian Basin, SE France
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瓦兰吉阶碳同位素事件期间没有缺氧的证据——法国东南部沃康田盆地的有机地球化学研究
DOI:
10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.04.007
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Mutterlose
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作者:
Heimhofer;Ostertag-Henning;Gréselle;Mutterlose
The Valanginian time interval (Early Cretaceous) is characterized by a positive carbon isotope excursion (CIE) which represents the first of several prominent Cretaceous δ13C anomalies. A combined chemostratigraphic and organic-geochemical approach has been chosen to investigate the composition and distribution of sedimentary organic matter (OM) deposited before the Valanginian CIE, during its onset and plateau-phase. This was done to test whether this CIE is accompanied by changes in marine primary production and/or OM preservation. Biostratigraphically well-calibrated deposits from two hemipelagic sections located in the Vocontian Basin of SE France are used as sedimentary archives. A newly established high-resolution δ13C record covering the composite succession shows a characteristic Valanginian pattern and enables a detailed correlation with existing carbon isotope curves from the northern Tethyan margin. The analyzed solvent extractable fraction of the sedimentary OM is mainly composed of a marine origin with an admixture of land plant material. Variations in specific biomarkers for cyanobacteria (2α-methyl-hopanes), dinoflagellates (dinosterane or 4-desmethyl-23,24-dimethyl steranes) and terrigenous plant-derived OM (odd‐numbered long-chain n-alkanes) as well as the sterane/hopane ratio, the C35hopane index and the isoprenoids pristane and phytane were investigated. In contrast to the well-studied mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs), neither significant OM enrichment nor prominent fluctuations in the selected biomarker abundances can be observed during the build-up phase of the Valanginian CIE. This points to relatively stable marine paleoenvironmental conditions with well-oxygenated bottom waters. Prior to the CIE, four cm-thick, finely laminated, dark layers (known as Barrande layers) with total organic carbon content reaching up to 4% show an exception from the generally stable biomarker pattern. Sedimentological and biomarker evidence support deposition under less oxygenated conditions for the Barrande layers. However, their occurrence clearly predates the onset of the positive δ13Ccarbshift (by about 180kyrs). Contrary to the subsequent mid-Cretaceous CIEs, the occurrence of widespread anoxia associated with the Valanginian CIE cannot be confirmed for the Vocontian Basin.
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