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Latitudinal variations in plankton delta C-13 - Implications for CO2 and productivity in past oceans (1989)

Des Marais, David J. ; Takahashi, Taro ; Rau, Greg H.

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Publication Date: 2011-08-19

Description: Low C-13/C-12 in present-day Antarctic plankton has been ascribed to high CO2 availability. It is reported here, however, that this high-latitude C-13 depletion develops at CO2 partial pressures that are often below that of the present atmosphere and usually below that of equatorial upwelling systems. Nevertheless, because of much lower water temperatures and hence greater CO2 solubility at high latitude, the preceding pCO2 measurements translate into Antarctic surface-water CO2 (aq) concentrations that are as much as 2.5 times higher than in equatorial waters. It is calculated that an oceanic pCO2 level greater than 800 micro-atm is a warmer low-latitude Cretaceous ocean would have been required to produce the plankton C-13 depletion preserved in Cretaceous sediments.

Keywords: OCEANOGRAPHY

Type: Nature (ISSN 0028-0836); 341; 516-518

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