Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China

Gao, Yuan; Ibarra, Daniel E.; Rugenstein, Jeremy K. Caves; Chen, Jiquan; Kukla, Tyler; Methner, Katharina; Gao, Youfeng; Huang, He; Lin, Zhipeng; Zhang, Laiming; Xi, Dangpeng; Wu, Huaichun; Carroll, Alan R.; Graham, Stephan A.; Chamberlain, C. Page; Wang, Chengshan

doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103572

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“…However, previous work comparing clay and carbonate δ 18 O has rarely found the minerals to be in co‐equilibrium (Gao et al., 2021; Poage & Chamberlain, 2002; Stern et al., 1997; Tabor et al., 2002; Torres‐Ruíz et al., 1994). Instead, Δ δ 18 O clay−carb is consistently below −3.5‰ in places where the wet season is thought to be the low‐ δ 18 O season (Stern et al., 1997; Tabor et al., 2002) and above −3.5‰ when the wet season is the high‐ δ 18 O season (Gao et al., 2021; Poage & Chamberlain, 2002).…”

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Drier Winters Drove Cenozoic Open Habitat Expansion in North America

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The shift from denser forests to open, grass‐dominated vegetation in west‐central North America between 26 and 15 million years ago is a major ecological transition with no clear driving force. This open habitat transition (OHT) is considered by some to be evidence for drier summers, more seasonal precipitation, or a cooler climate, but others have proposed that wetter conditions and/or warming initiated the OHT. Here, we use published (n = 2,065) and new (n = 173) oxygen isotope measurements (δ18O) in authigenic clays and soil carbonates to test the hypothesis that the OHT is linked to increasing wintertime aridity. Oxygen isotope ratios in meteoric water (δ18Op) vary seasonally, and clays and carbonates often form at different times of the year. Therefore, a change in precipitation seasonality can be recorded differently in each mineral. We find that oxygen isotope ratios of clay minerals increase across the OHT while carbonate oxygen isotope ratios show no change or decrease. This result cannot be explained solely by changes in global temperature or a shift to drier summers. Instead, it is consistent with a decrease in winter precipitation that increases annual mean δ18Op (and clay δ18O) but has a smaller or negligible effect on soil carbonates that primarily form in warmer months. We suggest that forest communities in west‐central North America were adapted to a wet‐winter precipitation regime for most of the Cenozoic, and they subsequently struggled to meet water demands when winters became drier, resulting in the observed open habitat expansion.

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Drier Winters Drove Cenozoic Open Habitat Expansion in North America

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“…Especially in marine stratigraphic records, chemostratigraphy is extensively used, including carbon isotope stratigraphy, oxygen isotope stratigraphy, strontium isotope stratigraphy, etc. As the largest sedimentary basin in East Asia during the Cretaceous period, the Songliao basin has great potential for multi-temporal and spatial scale geochemical comparative studies [1,9,10,34]. Jones et al (2018) compared the organic carbon isotope data of the Qingshankou Formation with the western interior basin in North America and revealed oceanic anoxic event 3 (OAE3) in the continental sedimentary basin for the first time.…”

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Controlling Factors for Organic Carbon Burial in the Late Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin, NE China

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The Songliao Basin (SLB) is a large terrestrial petroliferous basin located in northeastern China. The Nenjiang Formation represents excellent hydrocarbon source rocks for the Daqing oil field. Previous studies have indicated that the oil shale intervals from the first (K2n1) and second (K2n2) members of the Nenjiang Formation were formed in different depositional settings. In this study, we provide a new high-resolution (1 m interval) record from SK-1s core and compile three sets of published datasets from two drilling holes (Zk3389 and LY-1) and a composite outcrop section. According to the total organic carbon (TOC) chemostratigraphy, we have divided three variation cycles spanning from K2n1 to K2n2 and detected three potential oil shale intervals in the Nenjiang Formation. Combined with the productivity, salinity, and oxygenation proxies, we discuss the paleolimnological environmental changes during deposition of the Nenjiang Formation. Our new and compiled records support the model that excellent preservation conditions were associated with the formation of organic-rich sediments in the K2n1, while the productivity was the major controlling factor for organic matter enrichment in the K2n2.

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“…In this scenario, the colder, northern (Arctic) water mass would be more depleted in δ 13 CDIC than the southern source water. (Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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“…Multiple paleoclimate records document a late Maastrichtian warming event (LMWE) (e.g., Stott and Kennett, 1990;Li and Keller, 1998;Petersen et al, 2016a;Woelders et al, 2017;Woelders et al, 2018;Barnet et al, 2019;Gao et al, 2021;Nava et al, 2021), beginning gradually at 66.4 Ma with more rapid warming at 66.3 Ma (Hull et al, 2020). This timing of the LMWE aligns it with the onset of LIP volcanism in the Indian subcontinent, based on 40 Ar-39 Ar ages for the oldest basalts of the Deccan Traps (66.413 ± 0.067 Ma; Sprain et al, 2019) and shifts in marine osmium isotope ratios towards mantle values beginning ~400 kyr prior to the KPB (Ravizza and Peucker-Ehrenbrink, 2003;Hull et al, 2020).…”

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Clumped-isotope-derived climate trends leading up to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in northwest Europe

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Abstract. Paleotemperature reconstructions linked to Deccan traps volcanic greenhouse gas emissions and associated feedbacks in the lead-up to the end-Cretaceous meteorite impact and extinction document local and global climate trends during a key interval of geologic history. Here, we present a new clumped-isotope-based paleotemperature record derived from fossil bivalves from the Maastrichtian type region, in southeast Netherlands and northeast Belgium. Clumped isotope data documents a mean temperature of 19.2 ± 3.8 °C, consistent with other Maastrichtian temperature estimates, and an average seawater δ18O value of −0.3 ± 0.9 ‰ VSMOW for the region during the latest Cretaceous (67.1–66.0 Ma). A notable temperature increase at ~66.4 Ma is interpreted to be a regional manifestation of the globally-defined Late Maastrichtian Warming Event, linking Deccan Traps volcanic CO2 emissions prior to the end-Cretaceous extinction to climate change in the Maastricht region. Fluctuating seawater δ18O values coinciding with temperature changes suggest alternating influences of warm, salty southern-sourced waters and cooler, fresher northern-sourced waters from the Arctic Ocean. This new paleotemperature record contributes to the understanding of regional and global climate response to large-scale volcanism and ocean circulation changes leading up to a catastrophic mass extinction.

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Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China

Cited by 33 publications

References 123 publications

Drier Winters Drove Cenozoic Open Habitat Expansion in North America

Drier Winters Drove Cenozoic Open Habitat Expansion in North America

Controlling Factors for Organic Carbon Burial in the Late Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin, NE China

Clumped-isotope-derived climate trends leading up to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in northwest Europe

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