Sulfur isotope records around Livello Bonarelli (northern Apennines, Italy) black shale at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary
Abstract
Sulfur isotope ratios for carbonate-hosted sulfate show a rapid increase (+6‰ to +9‰/m.y.) across the Livello Bonarelli black shale (Marche-Umbrian Apennines of Italy), which was deposited at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary in the middle Cretaceous (93.5 Ma). The increase suggests that rates of pyrite burial increased substantially over the event, resulting in a decrease of 9% 27% in the oceanic reservoir of SO42-. The enhanced pyrite burial may have significantly increased the flux of oxygen to the atmosphere (9 27 × 1018 mol/m.y.). Furthermore, removal of the large amount of iron associated with this process might have had a profound effect on iron cycle.
- Publication:
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Geology
- Pub Date:
- June 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0535:SIRALB>2.3.CO;2
- Bibcode:
- 1999Geo....27..535O