A Dynamic Marine Calcium Cycle During the Past 28 Million Years

作者：Griffith Elizabeth M^*; Paytan Adina; Caldeira Ken; Bullen Thomas D; Thomas Ellen

来源：Science, 2008, 322(5908): 1671-1674.

DOI：10.1126/science.1163614

Multiple lines of evidence have shown that the isotopic composition and concentration of calcium in seawater have changed over the past 28 million years. A high- resolution, continuous seawater calcium isotope ratio curve from marine ( pelagic) barite reveals distinct features in the evolution of the seawater calcium isotopic ratio suggesting changes in seawater calcium concentrations. The most pronounced increase in the delta(44/40)Ca value of seawater (of 0.3 per mil) occurred over roughly 4 million years following a period of low values around 13 million years ago. The major change in marine calcium corresponds to a climatic transition and global change in the carbon cycle and suggests a reorganization of the global biogeochemical system.

• 出版日期2008-12-12