- Title
- Chemical archeoceanography:
- Creator
- Albarede, Francis
- Creator
- Thibon, Fanny
- Creator
- Blichert-Toft, Janne
- Creator
- Tsikos, Harilaos
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149065
- Identifier
- vital:38801
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119625
- Description
- Elemental fluxes to the ocean are expected to increase with the surface area of continental exposure to weathering and atmospheric PCO2. The record of phosphorus in sediments, which has no notable source within the ocean, and the radiogenic strontium isotopes in Archean carbonates indicate that, prior to the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), subaerial expanses represented only about 20% of the modern continental surface area, i.e. 7% of the surface of the Earth. Because these simple first-order observations, in contrast to the low oxygen content of the pre-GOE atmosphere, have so far received only little attention in the appraisal of the marine chemistry of the early Earth, a reassessment of the chemistry of the pre-GOE ocean is warranted. Here we discuss some of the geochemical cycles of the Archean world, including protons, alkalinity, electrons, and other electrolytes, and attempt to build a first conceptual framework for Chemical Archeoceanography.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Chemical Geology
- Relation
- Albarede, F., Thibon, F., Blichert-Toft, J. and Tsikos, H., 2020. Chemical archeoceanography. Chemical Geology, 548, p.119625.
- Relation
- Chemical Geology volume 548 number p.119625 August 2020 0009-2541
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