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The grandest of them all : the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation

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Date
21/06/2021
Author
Prave, A.R.
Kirsimäe, K.
Lepland, A.
Fallick, A.E.
Kreitsmann, T.
Deines, Yu.E.
Romashkin, A.E.
Rychanchik, D.V.
Medvedev, P.V.
Moussavou, M.
Bakakas, K.
Hodgskiss, M.S.W.
Keywords
Lomagundi-Jatuli Event
Palaeoproterozoic
Carbon isotope excursions
Great Oxidation Event
GE Environmental Sciences
QE Geology
DAS
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
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Abstract
The Paleoproterozoic Lomagundi–Jatuli Event (LJE) is generally considered the largest, in both amplitude and duration, positive carbonate C-isotope (δ13Ccarb) excursion in Earth history. Conventional thinking is that it represents a global perturbation of the carbon cycle between 2.3–2.1 Ga linked directly with, and in part causing, the postulated rise in atmospheric oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event. In addition to new high-resolution δ13Ccarb measurements from LJE-bearing successions of NW Russia, we compiled 14 943 δ13Ccarb values obtained from marine carbonate rocks 3.0–1.0 Ga in age and from selected Phanerozoic time intervals as a comparator of the LJE. Those data integrated with sedimentology show that, contra to consensus, the δ13Ccarb trend of the LJE is facies (i.e. palaeoenvironment) dependent. Throughout the LJE interval, the C-isotope composition of open and deeper marine settings maintained a mean δ13Ccarb value of +1.5 ± 2.4‰, comparable to those settings for most of Earth history. In contrast, the 13C-rich values that are the hallmark of the LJE are limited largely to nearshore-marine and coastal-evaporitic settings with mean δ13Ccarb values of +6.2 ± 2.0‰ and +8.1 ± 3.8‰, respectively. Our findings confirm that changes in δ13Ccarb are linked directly to facies changes and archive contemporaneous dissolved inorganic carbon pools having variable C-isotopic compositions in laterally adjacent depositional settings. The implications are that the LJE cannot be construed a priori as representative of the global carbon cycle or a planetary-scale disturbance to that cycle, nor as direct evidence for oxygenation of the ocean–atmosphere system. This requires rethinking models relying on those concepts and framing new ideas in the search for understanding the genesis of the grandest of all positive C-isotope excursions, its timing and its hypothesized linkage to oxygenation of the atmosphere.
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Prave , A R , Kirsimäe , K , Lepland , A , Fallick , A E , Kreitsmann , T , Deines , Y E , Romashkin , A E , Rychanchik , D V , Medvedev , P V , Moussavou , M , Bakakas , K & Hodgskiss , M S W 2021 , ' The grandest of them all : the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation ' , Journal of the Geological Society , vol. Online First , jgs2021-036 . https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-036
Publication
Journal of the Geological Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-036
ISSN
0016-7649
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: K.K., A.L. and T.K. received funding from Estonian Science Agency Project PRG447 and Yu.D., A.R., D.R. and P.M. were supported by the state assignment of the Institute of Geology, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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URL
http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2021/06/15/jgs2021-036.abstract
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23664

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