Journal
GEOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 793-796Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMERICA, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G19727.1
Keywords
carbon dioxide; seawater chemistry variation; atmospheric history; equilibrium; geochemistry
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A 60 m.y. record of atmospheric pCO(2) has been refined from knowledge of (1) secular changes in the major ion composition of seawater (particularly Ca and Mg) and (2) oscillations in the mineralogy of primary oceanic carbonate sediments. Both factors have had a significant impact on the chemistry of the ocean carbonate buffer system. Calculated atmospheric pCO(2) oscillated between values of 100-300 ppm and to maxima of 1200-2500 ppm from 60 to 40 Ma and varied between 100 and 300 ppm from 25 Ma to the present. The refined pCO(2) values are significantly lower than previous estimates made from seawater pH data where total dissolved inorganic carbon was assumed constant and more in line with modeling and stomatal index estimations of atmospheric pCO(2) for the Tertiary.
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