Paired δ13Ccarb-δ13Corg Evolution of the Dengying Formation from Northeastern Guizhou and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation and the Late Ediacaran Carbon Cycle

Yi Ding; Daizhao Chen; Xiqiang Zhou; Taiyu Huang; Chuan Guo; Rumana Yeasmin

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Yi Ding, Daizhao Chen, Xiqiang Zhou, Taiyu Huang, Chuan Guo, Rumana Yeasmin. Paired δ13Ccarb-δ13Corg Evolution of the Dengying Formation from Northeastern Guizhou and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation and the Late Ediacaran Carbon Cycle. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(2): 342-353. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0886-1

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Yi Ding, Daizhao Chen, Xiqiang Zhou, Taiyu Huang, Chuan Guo, Rumana Yeasmin. Paired δ¹³C_carb-δ¹³C_org Evolution of the Dengying Formation from Northeastern Guizhou and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation and the Late Ediacaran Carbon Cycle. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(2): 342-353. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0886-1

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Paired δ¹³C_carb-δ¹³C_org Evolution of the Dengying Formation from Northeastern Guizhou and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation and the Late Ediacaran Carbon Cycle

doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0886-1

Yi Ding^{1,2
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Daizhao Chen^{1,2
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Xiqiang Zhou^1,2,3,
Taiyu Huang^1,2,
Chuan Guo¹,
Rumana Yeasmin⁴

1.
Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; Institution of Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3.
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Shale Gas Resource Utilization, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
4.
Department of Geological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

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the Open Research Fund Program of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Shale Gas Resource Utilization, Hunan University of Science and Technology

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 41472089

the National Natural Science Foundation of China U1663209

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Corresponding author: Daizhao Chen, dzh-chen@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Received Date: 22 Mar 2018
Accepted Date: 12 Jul 2018
Publish Date: 01 Feb 2020

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This study provides δ¹³C profiles from a lower-slope (Well ZK102) to basin (Bahuang Section) environment to better understand the temporal and spatial variability in δ¹³C_carb-δ¹³C_org of the Yangtze Block during the Late Ediacaran. Our new δ¹³C profiles together with the reported data suggest that the Upper Ediacaran successions from different depositional environments are generally bounded by negative δ¹³C_carb and/or δ¹³C_org excursions in the underlying and overlying strata. Moreover, the Upper Ediacaran δ¹³C_carb profiles generally can be subdivided into two positive excursions and an interjacent negative excursion, whereas the paired δ¹³C_org profiles from different depositional environments have individual variation trends. On the other hand, these data show a large surface-to-deep water δ¹³C gradient (~5‰ variation in δ¹³C_carb, >10‰ variation in δ¹³C_org) which can be reasonably explained by the heterogeneity of the biological activities in the redox-stratified water column. Furthermore, the decoupled δ¹³C_carb-δ¹³C_org pattern with large δ¹³C_org perturbations at the lower slope precluded the existence of a large dissolved organic carbon reservoir at the Yangtze Block during the Late Ediacaran. Thus, the high d¹³C_carb values in the Upper Ediacaran succession could be balanced by large amounts of buried organic carbon likely associated with high productivity.
- Yangtze Block,
- Late Ediacaran,
- Dengying Formation,
- paired δ¹³C_carb-δ¹³C_org,
- stratigraphic correlation,
- carbon cycle

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