Onset of the glacioeustatic signal recording late Palaeozoic Gondwanan ice growth: New data from palaeotropical East Fife, Scotland

Fielding, Christopher R.; Frank, Tracy D.

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.002

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“…The late Palaeozoic ice age (LPIA) started in the latest Devonian and ended in the middle Permian, when global palaeogeography (closure of Rheic Ocean and formation of supercontinent Pangaea) and land ecosystems (radiation and evolution of the oldest rainforests) experienced major changes (Chen, Montañez, Qi, Shen, & Wang, 2018;DiMichele, Cecil, & Montañez, 2014;Isbell et al, 2012;Montañez, 2016;Montañez & Poulsen, 2013;Veevers, 2013). Sedimentological and geochemical studies suggest that major continental glaciation on Gondwana was most likely initiated in the late Visean (e.g., Barham, Murray, Joachimski, & Williams, 2012;Fielding & Frank, 2015;Chen, Sheng, et al, 2018;Smith & Read, 2000;Wright & Vanstone, 2001) and reached the first peak in the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary (MPB) interval (B. Montañez & Poulsen, 2013).…”

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Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

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A positive carbonate δ13C excursion (by ~1.5–3.0‰) has been reported across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary (MPB) from Euramerican epicontinental seas, implying a coeval atmospheric pCO2 decrease and Gondwanan glaciation at that time. This excursion was mainly observed in carbonate platforms which experienced repeated subaerial exposure. The South China Block was located in the middle of the Paleo‐Tethys Ocean and the Panthalassic Ocean during the Carboniferous and contains well‐preserved carbonate slope strata across the MPB. Four lithofacies were defined in the studied Naqing, Narao, and Dianzishang sections, including thin‐bedded lime mudstones, laminated wackestones to packstones, normally‐graded packstones, and slumped limestones. Immediately above the MPB, a bed of normally‐graded packstones or slump masses occurs in the studied sections, which together with coeval subaerial‐exposure features in shallow‐water carbonate platform of South China, suggests a significant sea‐level fall across the MPB. Carbonate δ13C records show a consistent value of ~3.0‰ below the MPB in the Naqing and Narao sections, and both sections show an obvious rise in δ13C across the MPB (by ~0.5–1.0‰). The relatively small‐magnitude rise in δ13C would have resulted from well‐mixed seawater induced by intensified upwelling in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean during the glacial peak. Hence, the carbonate δ13C values recorded in the South China Block may represent a mean δ13C of the dissolved inorganic carbon in global ocean water at that time. Correlation between carbonate δ13C and previously published conodont δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr records suggests that the MPB glaciation was mainly driven by enhanced continental weathering, rather than increased organic carbon burial, although further quantitative simulation is required to better understand the interlinked processes during the Earth's penultimate icehouse.

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Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

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“…8). The Madison Group was deposited during an overall sealevel highstand, postdating the late Devonian phase of the LPIA (Brezinski et al, 2008;Caputo et al, 2008;Isaacson et al, 2008) and predating the onset of major Carboniferous glaciations (Bishop et al, 2009;Fielding and Frank, 2015). There is to this day an active debate as to when large-scale ice-sheets started to form during the Mississippian, indicated by the onset of a clear orbitally-driven cyclicity in the low-paleolatitudes (Smith and Read, 2000;Wright and Vanstone, 2001;Al-Tawil and Read, 2003;Butts, 2005;Batt et al, 2008;Buggisch et al, 2008;Rygel et al, 2008;Bishop et al, 2009;Barham et al, 2012;Fielding and Frank, 2015).…”

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“…The Madison Group was deposited during an overall sealevel highstand, postdating the late Devonian phase of the LPIA (Brezinski et al, 2008;Caputo et al, 2008;Isaacson et al, 2008) and predating the onset of major Carboniferous glaciations (Bishop et al, 2009;Fielding and Frank, 2015). There is to this day an active debate as to when large-scale ice-sheets started to form during the Mississippian, indicated by the onset of a clear orbitally-driven cyclicity in the low-paleolatitudes (Smith and Read, 2000;Wright and Vanstone, 2001;Al-Tawil and Read, 2003;Butts, 2005;Batt et al, 2008;Buggisch et al, 2008;Rygel et al, 2008;Bishop et al, 2009;Barham et al, 2012;Fielding and Frank, 2015). Specifically, many records seem to indicate a substantial cooling phase during the middle to late Visean (Asbian; Wright and Vanstone, 2001;Bishop et al, 2009;Barham et al, 2012;Fielding and Frank, 2015), while others suggest a Serpukhovian age for the major climatic deterioration (Butts, 2005;Batt et al, 2008;Buggisch et al, 2008).…”

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Impact of continental motion and dynamic glaciations on low-latitude climate during the Carboniferous: The record of the Wyoming Shelf (Western United States)

Blanchard

Fielding

Frank

2015

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The dynamic character of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age is evident from glacial deposits, but its impact on tropical climate is not well constrained. Global changes in climate are overprinted on longer-term paleogeographic variations, resulting in a complex time-space distribution of climate-sensitive lithologies. The significance of such lithologies in Carboniferous successions of the western United States has not been fully explored. In this study, we provide new interpretations for the paleoclimatic context of the Amsden and Tensleep Formations (Pennsylvanian, Northern Wyoming, USA). The Amsden Formation consists of a basal sandstone member overlain by red siltstones containing pisolites. Very large-scale (~10 m) cross-bedding within the basal sandstone indicates deposition in an erg environment. Iron pisoid-rich layers in the overlying member suggest an evolution toward more humid conditions. Persistent arid conditions during the middle Pennsylvanian are suggested by eolian sandstones and calcretes in the overlying Tensleep Formation. These formations were deposited on the karst topography that developed on top of the lower to middle Mississippian Madison Group. Although the development of karstic features implies that humid conditions prevailed during the late Mississippian, evaporites and evidence for early dolomitization within the formation suggest that it was deposited under arid conditions. These relationships argue for a long-term climate evolution from arid to humid during the Mississippian, and a return to arid conditions during the Pennsylvanian. This trend can be explained by the northward drift from 15°S to~12°N. A comparison with contemporaneous records reveals a diachronous evolution across western Pangaea, with the climatic conditions documented on the Wyoming Shelf being reached later in eastern North America. These relationships indicate that plate motion considerably overprints long-term climatic records. Departures from this trend, suggested by the presence of erg deposits in the basal Amsden Formation, record the overprinting of shorter periods of climate change.

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“…Evidence of small-scale glacial fluctuation comes from the far-field record, which consists of a repeating hierarchy of lithologies. Cyclic packages of rocks from Europe and North America long have been interpreted as recording glacioeustatic change and used to estimate the timing and magnitude of glacial advances and retreats (Fielding & Frank, 2015;Heckel, 1986Heckel, , 1994Wanless & Shepard, 1936;West et al, 1997).…”

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Constraining the Timing and Amplitude of Early Serpukhovian Glacioeustasy With a Continuous Carbonate Record in Northern Spain

Campion

Maloof

Schoene

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Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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During the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA, 345–260 Ma), an expansion of ice house conditions at ∼330 Ma caused a nearly synchronous, global unconformity. Subaerially exposed paleotropical carbonates were dissolved by meteoric waters, mixed with the light terrestrial carbon, and recrystallized with overprinted, diagenetic δ13C values. In Northern Spain, development of a rapidly subsiding foreland basin kept local sea level relatively high, allowing continuous carbonate deposition to record δ13C without meteoric overprint. The Spanish sections show a 2‰ increase in δ13C that can be modeled as the ocean's response to the creation of a significant light carbon sink through widespread meteoric diagenesis of marine carbonates during the near‐global hiatus. About 15–35 m of sea level fall would have exposed a large enough volume of carbonate to account for the positive excursion in δ13C of oceanic DIC. Combining the δ13C data with high resolution biostratigraphy and new ID‐TIMS U‐Pb zircon ages from interbedded tuffs, we calculate that the depositional hiatus and glacioeustatic fall caused by the early Serpukhovian phase of ice growth lasted for approximately 3.5 My.

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Onset of the glacioeustatic signal recording late Palaeozoic Gondwanan ice growth: New data from palaeotropical East Fife, Scotland

Cited by 43 publications

References 64 publications

Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

Impact of continental motion and dynamic glaciations on low-latitude climate during the Carboniferous: The record of the Wyoming Shelf (Western United States)

Constraining the Timing and Amplitude of Early Serpukhovian Glacioeustasy With a Continuous Carbonate Record in Northern Spain

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Onset of the glacioeustatic signal recording late Palaeozoic Gondwanan ice growth: New data from palaeotropical East Fife, Scotland

Cited by 43 publications

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Glacio‐eustasy and δ13C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

Glacio‐eustasy and δ13C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

Impact of continental motion and dynamic glaciations on low-latitude climate during the Carboniferous: The record of the Wyoming Shelf (Western United States)

Constraining the Timing and Amplitude of Early Serpukhovian Glacioeustasy With a Continuous Carbonate Record in Northern Spain

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Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation

Glacio‐eustasy and δ¹³C across the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo‐Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid‐Carboniferous major glaciation