The Palaeoproterozoic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lomagundi-Jatuli Isotopic Event

Victor A. Melezhik, Anthony E. Fallick, Adam P. Martin, Daniel J. Condon, Lee R. Kump, Alex T. Brasier, Paula E. Salminen

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Abstract

On Earth, carbon cycles through the land, ocean, atmosphere, living and dead biomass and the planet’s interior. The global carbon cycle can be divided into the tectonically driven geological cycle and the biological/physicochemical cycles. The former operates over millions of years, whereas the latter operate over much shorter time scales (days to thousands of years). Within the geological cycle, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is controlled by the balance between weathering, biological drawdown, size of sedimentary reservoir, subduction, metamorphism and volcanism over time periods of hundreds of millions of years.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation
Subtitle of host publicationGlobal Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project
EditorsVictor A. Melezhik, Anthony R. Prave, Eero J. Hanski, Anthony E. Fallick, Aivo Lepland, Lee R. Kump, Harold Strauss
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages1111-1150
Number of pages40
Volume3
ISBN (Electronic)9783642296703
ISBN (Print)9783642296697
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Earth Sciences
Volume7
ISSN (Print)1863-4621
ISSN (Electronic)1863-463X

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