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dc.contributor.authorBurke, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorPresent, Theodore M.
dc.contributor.authorParis, Guillaume
dc.contributor.authorRae, Emily C. M.
dc.contributor.authorSandilands, Brodie H.
dc.contributor.authorGaillardet, Jérôme
dc.contributor.authorPeucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Woodward W.
dc.contributor.authorMcClelland, James W.
dc.contributor.authorSpencer, Robert G. M.
dc.contributor.authorVoss, Britta M.
dc.contributor.authorAdkins, Jess F.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-05T23:40:15Z
dc.date.available2019-06-05T23:40:15Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-15
dc.identifier.citationBurke , A , Present , T M , Paris , G , Rae , E C M , Sandilands , B H , Gaillardet , J , Peucker-Ehrenbrink , B , Fischer , W W , McClelland , J W , Spencer , R G M , Voss , B M & Adkins , J F 2018 , ' Sulfur isotopes in rivers : insights into global weathering budgets, pyrite oxidation, and the modern sulfur cycle ' , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , vol. 496 , pp. 168-177 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.022en
dc.identifier.issn0012-821X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 253098586
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 13b5cdca-a151-4c33-a169-d456fe3b08f0
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85048463054
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000438179400017
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3754-1498/work/64034545
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17830
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by a Foster and Coco Stanback postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG14-631752) to AB. JFA acknowledges the support of NSF-OCE grant 1340174 and NSF-EAR grant 1349858. WF acknowledges the support of a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.en
dc.description.abstractThe biogeochemical sulfur cycle is intimately linked to the cycles of carbon, iron, and oxygen, and plays an important role in global climate via weathering reactions and aerosols. However, many aspects of the modern budget of the global sulfur cycle are not fully understood. We present new δ34S measurements on sulfate from more than 160 river samples from different geographical and climatic regions—more than 46% of the world's freshwater flux to the ocean is accounted for in this estimate of the global riverine sulfur isotope budget. These measurements include major rivers and their tributaries, as well as time series, and are combined with previously published data to estimate the modern flux-weighted global riverine δ34S as 4.4 ± 4.5‰ (V-CDT), and 4.8 ± 4.9‰ when the most polluted rivers are excluded. The sulfur isotope data, when combined with major anion and cation concentrations, allow us to tease apart the relative contributions of different processes to the modern riverine sulfur budget, resulting in new estimates of the flux of riverine sulfate due to the oxidative weathering of pyrites (1.3 ± 0.2 Tmol S/y) and the weathering of sedimentary sulfate minerals (1.5 ± 0.2 Tmol S/y). These data indicate that previous estimates of the global oxidative weathering of pyrite have been too low by a factor of two. As pyrite oxidation coupled to carbonate weathering can act as a source of CO2 to the atmosphere, this global pyrite weathering budget implies that the global CO2 weathering sink is overestimated. Furthermore, the large range of sulfur isotope ratios in modern rivers indicates that secular changes in the lithologies exposed to weathering through time could play a major role in driving past variations in the δ34S value of seawater.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEarth and Planetary Science Lettersen
dc.rights© 2018 Elsevier B.V.. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.022en
dc.subjectSulfuren
dc.subjectRiversen
dc.subjectWeatheringen
dc.subjectPyriteen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectQD Chemistryen
dc.subjectQE Geologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccQDen
dc.subject.lccQEen
dc.titleSulfur isotopes in rivers : insights into global weathering budgets, pyrite oxidation, and the modern sulfur cycleen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Isotope Geochemistryen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.022
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-06-06
dc.identifier.grantnumberPCIG14-GA-2013-631752en


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