Transient fertilization of a post-Sturtian Snowball ocean margin with dissolved phosphate by clay minerals.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
18 Dec 2023
18 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
03
08
2023
accepted:
05
12
2023
medline:
19
12
2023
pubmed:
19
12
2023
entrez:
18
12
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Marine sedimentary rocks deposited across the Neoproterozoic Cryogenian Snowball interval, ~720-635 million years ago, suggest that post-Snowball fertilization of shallow continental margin seawater with phosphorus accelerated marine primary productivity, ocean-atmosphere oxygenation, and ultimately the rise of animals. However, the mechanisms that sourced and delivered bioavailable phosphate from land to the ocean are not fully understood. Here we demonstrate a causal relationship between clay mineral production by the melting Sturtian Snowball ice sheets and a short-lived increase in seawater phosphate bioavailability by at least 20-fold and oxygenation of an immediate post-Sturtian Snowball ocean margin. Bulk primary sediment inputs and inferred dissolved seawater phosphate dynamics point to a relatively low marine phosphate inventory that limited marine primary productivity and seawater oxygenation before the Sturtian glaciation, and again in the later stages of the succeeding interglacial greenhouse interval.
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pubmed: 38110448
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44240-9
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-44240-9
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eng
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