An expanded record of Early Cambrian carbon cycling from the Anti-Atlas Margin, Morocco

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  • Adam C. Maloof
  • Daniel P. Schrag
  • James L. Crowley
  • Samuel A. Bowring
چکیده

We present a ,,13C record from the Anti-Atlas mountains of Morocco and place it in the context of a detailed regional tectonostratigraphy. We place the lithoand chemostratigraphic record in a temporal framework using precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of ashes interbedded with the same carbonate units that provide "l3C data. The variations in "l3C of carbonate occur on a wide range of time scales, suggesting that different mechanisms are involved, including non-steady state release of isotopically depleted carbon reservoirs on short « 100000 years) time scales and changes in nutrient recycling and organic carbon burial on longer (2: I Ma) time scales. Through a correlation with more fossiliferous, albeit condensed, sections in Siberia, we examine the pattern of cyclic "l3C variation in the context of the reappearance and diversification of skeletonized metazoa during the Early Cambrian. Resume: Nous presentons des donnees "l3C des montagnes de I' Anti-Atlas du Maroc et nous les examinons dans Ie contexte d'une tectonostratigraphie regionale detaillee. Nous inserons les donnees lithostratigraphiques et chimiostratigraphiques dans un cadre temporel en utilisant une geochronologie U-Pb de precision sur des zircons provenant de cendres interlitees avec les memes unites de carbonates qui ont fourni les donnees "l3c. Les "I3C des carbonates varient sur une grande plage d' echelles de temps, suggerant que differents mecanismes sont en jeu, incluant Ie relachement en regime variable de reservoirs de carbone epuises sur une courte echelle de temps «100 000 ans) et des changements dans Ie recyclage des nutriments et de I' enfouissement du carbone organique selon des echelles de temps plus longues (2: I Ma). En correlation avec des sections plus fossiliferes mais condensees provenant de Siberie, nous examinons Ie patron des variations cycliques des donnees "l3C dans Ie contexte d'une resurgence et de la diversification de metazoaires squelettises au cours du Cambrien precoce. [Traduit par la Redaction]

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تاریخ انتشار 2006