Selenium isotopes trace anoxic and ferruginous seawater conditions in the Early Cambrian

	Selenium isotopes trace anoxic and ferruginous seawater conditions in the Early Cambrian
	Hanjie Wen; Jean Carignan; Xuelei Chu; Haifeng Fan; Christophe Cloquet; Jing Huang
	2014
发表期刊	Chemical Geology
卷号	390 期号:1 页码:164-172
摘要	Selenium (Se) isotopes can yield substantial isotopic fractionation (up to 20%) confirmed by experiments and field investigations, depending on various biotic or abiotic redox transformations. Therefore, it is expected that redox changes in the ancient oceans would induce significant isotopic fractionation, and the Se isotopic signatures recorded in old sedimentary rocks might provide new insight into how the redox state of the ancient ocean has evolved. However, previous studies have shown that Se is slightly enriched in the lighter isotope relative to the bulk earth values inmost deposited conditions (oxic, anoxic, and even sulfidic). Here, our results reveal that ferruginous conditions can result in excessive accumulation of Se in sediments with an elevated Se/S ratio and significant isotope fractionation (about 6%), which leads us to propose that Se isotopes are an appropriate geochemical proxy to trace unique oceanic conditions over times. Accordingly, Se isotopic variations measured in three Early Cambrian formations in southern China suggest that anoxic waters with ferruginous conditions must have been present in early Cambrian ocean along the eastern margin of the Yangtze platform, and oceanic circulation was stepwise reorganized. This may have triggered biological diversification from the Ediacaran to the Early Cambrian.
学科领域	矿床地球化学
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.gyig.ac.cn/handle/352002/6023
专题	矿床地球化学国家重点实验室_矿床地球化学国家重点实验室_期刊论文矿床地球化学国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hanjie Wen,Jean Carignan,Xuelei Chu,et al. Selenium isotopes trace anoxic and ferruginous seawater conditions in the Early Cambrian[J]. Chemical Geology,2014,390(1):164-172.
APA	Hanjie Wen,Jean Carignan,Xuelei Chu,Haifeng Fan,Christophe Cloquet,&Jing Huang.(2014).Selenium isotopes trace anoxic and ferruginous seawater conditions in the Early Cambrian.Chemical Geology,390(1),164-172.
MLA	Hanjie Wen,et al."Selenium isotopes trace anoxic and ferruginous seawater conditions in the Early Cambrian".Chemical Geology 390.1(2014):164-172.

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