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Volume 19 Issue 5
Oct 2008
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Journal of Earth Science  > 2008  >  19(5): 534-548.
Wenbo Su, Yongbiao Wang, D Cramer Bradley, Munnecke Axel, Zhiming Li, Lipu Fu. Preliminary Estimation of Paleoproductivity via TOC and Habitat Types: Which Method Is More Reliable?-A Case Study on the Ordovician-Silurian Transitional Black Shales of the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Earth Science, 2008, 19(5): 534-548.
Citation: Wenbo Su, Yongbiao Wang, D Cramer Bradley, Munnecke Axel, Zhiming Li, Lipu Fu. Preliminary Estimation of Paleoproductivity via TOC and Habitat Types: Which Method Is More Reliable?-A Case Study on the Ordovician-Silurian Transitional Black Shales of the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Journal of Earth Science, 2008, 19(5): 534-548.
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Preliminary Estimation of Paleoproductivity via TOC and Habitat Types: Which Method Is More Reliable?-A Case Study on the Ordovician-Silurian Transitional Black Shales of the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China

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    School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China

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    Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

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    Division of Geological Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

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    GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Fachgruppe Pal?oumwelt, Universit?t Erlangen, Erlangen D-91054, Germany

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    Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

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    Xi'an Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Xi'an 710054, China

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the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40372057

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40772076

the SINOPEC project G0800-06-ZS-319

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  • Corresponding author: Su Wenbo, suwenbo@cugb.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 20 May 2008
  • Accepted Date: 01 Jul 2008
    Abstract

  • New total organic carbon (TOC) data from the two Ordovician-Silurian transitional graptolite-bearing black shale intervals, the Wufeng (五峰) Formation and the Longmaxi (龙马溪) Formation in Central Guizhou (贵州) and West Hubei (湖北), respectively, as well as previously reported TOC data from the same intervals in other places on the Yangtze platform of South China, have been used to produce an initial estimate of the primary paleoproductivity via a conventional inverse method (i.e., Rpp-inverse). The values of the Rpp-inverse are estimated to be 32 (43-21) gC/(m2·a) (Wufeng Formation) and 21 (27-16) gC/(m2·a) (Longmaxi Formation). Also, simultaneously, the habitat types (i.e., HT; cf., BA: benthic assemblage) and their temporal and spatial changes have been documented from the same succession, and an initial estimate of the primary paleoproductivity has been produced using a forward method (i.e., Rpp-forward). Being bounded mainly by the peritidal to inner-shelf environment shelly-facies or mixed-facies successions with BA1 to BA3 faunas both at the top and the base, which indicates the habitat types from HT Ⅱ1 to HT Ⅲ2, the biohabitat type of the two graptolite-bearing black shale intervals can be limited to HT Ⅲ to HT Ⅳ, corresponding to the inner shelf to the outer shelf, with depths from roughly 60 m to 200-300 m. Based on the current data from the South China Sea and the southern part of the East China Sea, values of Rpp-forward should be about 100 to 400 gC/(m2·a). The difference in the results via the two methods suggests that paleoproductivity estimates from the geological strata need to be made cautiously, with particular attention paid to the paleogeographic setting, oxic-anoxic conditions, as also the preservation factor of organic carbon.

     

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