エメイシャン洪水玄武岩火山活動中の大気中CO2の枯渇
Jiaheng Shen1, Yi Ge Zhang2, Dong-Xun Yuan3
1School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. jiahengshen@pku.edu.cn.
Nature communications
|February 26, 2026
まとめ
エメイシャン大規模火成岩地域(LIP)の噴火中、予想に反して大気中CO2レベルは低下した。地殻隆起による浸食の増加は、火山噴出による放出よりも多くのCO2を消費した。
科学分野:
- 地球科学
- 古気候学
- 火山学
背景:
- 従来のモデルは、大規模火成岩地域(LIP)を、大気中CO2の増加および生物危機と結びつけている。
- このモデルは、火山活動中のCO2の増加を仮定しているが、これは経験的な検証を必要とする一般化である。
- LIPの環境への影響を理解することは、過去の絶滅イベントの解釈にとって極めて重要である。
主な方法:
- 葉緑素由来化合物からの炭素同位体を用いたpCO2変動の再構築。
- 古大気中CO2の高分解能分析。
- マグマ中のCO2含有量を評価するためのエメイシャン玄武岩の地球化学分析。
結論:
- 地域の隆起によって引き起こされた揚子江クラトンの炭酸塩の浸食と風化の増加は、マグマ噴出による放出よりも多くのCO2を消費した可能性が高い。
- LIPの環境への影響は、テクトニック・マグマ的相互作用によって駆動され、主要な噴火段階に先行する可能性がある。
- 火山噴出による放出だけではない複雑なCO2パターンが、LIPの環境への影響および関連する生物イベントに影響を与える。
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