期刊
ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE, VOL 13, 2021
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 57-80出版社
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-041720-092514
关键词
lysocline; carbonate compensation; calcite; aragonite; alkalinity
资金
- National Science Foundation [OCE1220600, OCE-1559215, OCE-1834492, OCE-1559004, OCE-1220302, OCE-1834475]
- Linde Center for Global Environmental Science at Caltech
- Change Happens Foundation
- Grantham Foundation
The dissolution of CaCO3 minerals in the ocean is a fundamental aspect of marine alkalinity and carbon cycling, but there is still disagreement regarding the relationship between dissolution rate and mineral saturation state. While freshwater dissolution of calcite has been well studied, a unified understanding of carbonate dissolution in the ocean is lacking, with disagreements between laboratory and field studies. This review proposes a new framework that considers surface energetics and seawater speciation to explain recent data and historical features.
The dissolution of CaCO3 minerals in the ocean is a fundamental part of the marine alkalinity and carbon cycles. While there have been decades of work aimed at deriving the relationship between dissolution rate and mineral saturation state (a so-called rate law), no real consensus has been reached. There are disagreements between laboratory- and field-based studies and differences in rates for inorganic and biogenic materials. Rates based on measurements on suspended particles do not always agree with rates inferred from measurements made near the sediment-water interface of the actual ocean. By contrast, the freshwater dissolution rate of calcite has been well described by bulk rate measurements from a number of different laboratories, fit by basic kinetic theory, and well studied by atomic force microscopy and vertical scanning interferometry to document the processes at the atomic scale. In this review, we try to better unify our understanding of carbonate dissolution in the ocean via a relatively new, highly sensitive method we have developed combined with a theoretical framework guided by the success of the freshwater studies. We show that empirical curve fits of seawater data as a function of saturation state do not agree, largely because the curvature is itself a function of the thermodynamics. Instead, we show that models that consider both surface energetic theory and the complicated speciation of seawater and calcite surfaces in seawater are able to explain most of the most recent data. This new framework can also explain features of the historical data that have not been previously explained. The existence of a kink in the relationship between rate and saturation state, reflecting a change in dissolution mechanism, may be playing an important role in accelerating CaCO3 dissolution in key sedimentary environments.
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