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Un origen hidrotermal para los cementos de dolostone de tapa isotópicamente anómalos del sur de China
Thomas F Bristow1, Magali Bonifacie, Arkadiusz Derkowski
1Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. thomas.f.bristow@nasa.gov
Nature
|May 27, 2011
Resumen
La liberación de metano de los clatratos puede no haber causado el fin de la marina marina.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La geoquímica es la geoquímica.
- Paleoclimatología Paleoclimatología
- La geoquímica de los isótopos es la geoquímica de los isótopos.
Sus antecedentes:
- La liberación de metano de clatratos desestabilizados es un hipotético mecanismo de retroalimentación positiva para el calentamiento global.
- Esta liberación de metano se propone como una de las causas del final de la edad de hielo de la "Bola de Nieve de la Tierra" de Marino (hace unos 635 millones de años).
- Las firmas de isótopos de carbono en las dolostones del sur de China fueron interpretadas previamente como evidencia de la oxidación del metano durante la deglaciación.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Reevaluar el momento y el origen del agotamiento del isótopo de carbono en las dolostones del sur de China.
- Para probar la hipótesis de que la liberación de metano de los clatratos ocurrió durante la deglaciación marina.
- Comprender las limitaciones de la metanotropía precámbrica en entornos marinos.
Principales métodos:
- Termometría de isótopos agrupados de carbonato para determinar las temperaturas de cristalización.
- Análisis de los isótopos de estroncio ((87) Sr / (86) Sr) y el contenido de oligoelementos.
- Análisis mineral de arcilla para evaluar los procesos diagenéticos.
Principales resultados:
- Los carbonatos con firmas de isótopos de carbono agotados se cristalizaron más de 1,6 millones de años después de la deposición de dolostones de la tapa.
- Estos carbonatos empobrecidos se formaron a partir de fluidos hidrotermales, lo que indica una profunda oxidación termogénica del metano.
- Los hallazgos niegan la interpretación de estas firmas como evidencia de la liberación de metano durante la deglaciación marina.
Conclusiones:
- La evidencia de isótopos de carbono para la liberación de metano durante la deglaciación marina en el sur de China es inválida.
- Los ambientes marinos precámbricos probablemente tenían una capacidad limitada para producir carbonatos de filtración altamente empobrecidos en carbono debido a las bajas concentraciones de sulfatos.
- El papel de la desestabilización de Clathrate en el final del evento de la "Tierra bola de nieve" sigue siendo incierto y probablemente no dejó tales señales isotópicas.
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