期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 116, 期 39, 页码 19352-19361出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901178116
关键词
Cambrian explosion; oxygenation; global biogeochemical cycles; stable isotopes; uranium
资金
- Villum Foundation [VKR023127]
- National Science Foundation China [NSFC 41672026]
- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF97]
- European Research Council [616027-STARDUST2ASTEROIDS]
The proliferation of large, motile animals 540 to 520 Ma has been linked to both rising and declining O-2 levels on Earth. To explore this conundrum, we reconstruct the global extent of seafloor oxygenation at approximately submillion-year resolution based on uranium isotope compositions of 187 marine carbonates samples from China, Siberia, and Morocco, and simulate O-2 levels in the atmosphere and surface oceans using a mass balance model constrained by carbon, sulfur, and strontium isotopes in the same sedimentary successions. Our results point to a dynamically viable and highly variable state of atmosphere-ocean oxygenation with 2 massive expansions of seafloor anoxia in the aftermath of a prolonged interval of declining atmospheric pO(2) levels. Although animals began diversifying beforehand, there were relatively few new appearances during these dramatic fluctuations in seafloor oxygenation. When O-2 levels again rose, it occurred in concert with predicted high rates of photosynthetic production, both of which may have fueled more energy to predators and their armored prey in the evolving marine ecosystem.
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