The Palaeoproterozoic perturbation of the global carbon cycle: the Lomagundi-Jatuli isotopic event

Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Martin, A.P., Condon, D.J., Kump, L.R., Brasier, A.T. and Salminen, P.E. (2013) The Palaeoproterozoic perturbation of the global carbon cycle: the Lomagundi-Jatuli isotopic event. In: Melezhik, V.A., Prave, A.R., Hanski, E.J., Fallick, A.E., Lepland, A., Kump, L.R. and Strauss, H. (eds.) Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation: Global Event and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Series: Frontiers in earth sciences, 3 (3). Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, pp. 1111-1150. ISBN 9783642296697 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29670-3_3)

Abstract

On Earth, carbon cycles through the land, ocean, atmosphere, living and dead biomass and the planet’s interior. The global carbon cycle can be divided into the tectonically driven geological cycle and the biological/physicochemical cycles. The former operates over millions of years, whereas the latter operate over much shorter time scales (days to thousands of years). Within the geological cycle, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is controlled by the balance between weathering, biological drawdown, size of sedimentary reservoir, subduction, metamorphism and volcanism over time periods of hundreds of millions of years.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Brasier, Dr Alexander and Fallick, Professor Anthony
• Authors: Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Martin, A.P., Condon, D.J., Kump, L.R., Brasier, A.T., and Salminen, P.E.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• ISBN: 9783642296697