Barium concentrations and GDGT abundances across the PETM

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Autori principali: Frieling, Joost, Peterse, Francien, Lunt, Daniel J, Bohaty, Steven M, Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S, Reichart, Gert-Jan, Sluijs, Appy
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author Frieling, Joost
Peterse, Francien
Lunt, Daniel J
Bohaty, Steven M
Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S
Reichart, Gert-Jan
Sluijs, Appy
author_facet Frieling, Joost
Peterse, Francien
Lunt, Daniel J
Bohaty, Steven M
Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S
Reichart, Gert-Jan
Sluijs, Appy
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents Current climate change may induce positive carbon cycle feedbacks that amplify anthropogenic warming on time scales of centuries to millennia. Similar feedbacks might have been active during a phase of carbon cycle perturbation and global warming, termed the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56 million years ago). The PETM may help constrain these feedbacks and their sensitivity to warming. We present new high-resolution carbon isotope and sea surface temperature data from Ocean Drilling Project Site 959 in the Equatorial Atlantic. With these and existing data from the New Jersey shelf and Maud Rise, Southern Ocean, we quantify the lead-lag relation between PETM warming and the carbon input that caused the carbon isotope excursion. We show ~2 ºC of global warming preceded the CIE by millennia, strongly implicating CO2-driven warming triggered a positive carbon cycle feedback. We further compile new and published barium (Ba) records encompassing continental shelf, slope and deep-ocean settings. Based on this compilation, average Ba burial rates approximately tripled during the PETM, which may require an additional source of Ba to the ocean. Although the precipitation pathway is not well constrained, dissolved Ba stored in sulfate-depleted pore-waters below methane hydrates could represent an additional source. We speculate the most complete explanation for early warming and rise in Ba supply is that hydrate dissociation acted as a positive feedback and caused the CIE. This could imply hydrates are more temperature-sensitive than previously considered, and may warrant reconsideration of the political assignment of 2 °C warming as a safe future scenario.
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spellingShingle Barium concentrations and GDGT abundances across the PETM
Frieling, Joost
Peterse, Francien
Lunt, Daniel J
Bohaty, Steven M
Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S
Reichart, Gert-Jan
Sluijs, Appy
Ocean Drilling Program; ODP
Current climate change may induce positive carbon cycle feedbacks that amplify anthropogenic warming on time scales of centuries to millennia. Similar feedbacks might have been active during a phase of carbon cycle perturbation and global warming, termed the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56 million years ago). The PETM may help constrain these feedbacks and their sensitivity to warming. We present new high-resolution carbon isotope and sea surface temperature data from Ocean Drilling Project Site 959 in the Equatorial Atlantic. With these and existing data from the New Jersey shelf and Maud Rise, Southern Ocean, we quantify the lead-lag relation between PETM warming and the carbon input that caused the carbon isotope excursion. We show ~2 ºC of global warming preceded the CIE by millennia, strongly implicating CO2-driven warming triggered a positive carbon cycle feedback. We further compile new and published barium (Ba) records encompassing continental shelf, slope and deep-ocean settings. Based on this compilation, average Ba burial rates approximately tripled during the PETM, which may require an additional source of Ba to the ocean. Although the precipitation pathway is not well constrained, dissolved Ba stored in sulfate-depleted pore-waters below methane hydrates could represent an additional source. We speculate the most complete explanation for early warming and rise in Ba supply is that hydrate dissociation acted as a positive feedback and caused the CIE. This could imply hydrates are more temperature-sensitive than previously considered, and may warrant reconsideration of the political assignment of 2 °C warming as a safe future scenario.
title Barium concentrations and GDGT abundances across the PETM
topic Ocean Drilling Program; ODP
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899283