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Carbon burial in deep-sea sediment and implications for oceanic inventories of carbon and alkalinity over the last glacial cycle
Olivier Cartapanis
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Earth and Planetary Sciences McGill University, Montreal H3A 2A7, Canada
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change
Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Eric D. Galbraith
Earth and Planetary Sciences McGill University, Montreal H3A 2A7, Canada
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg.
Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) and Department of
Mathematics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Daniele Bianchi
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565, USA
Samuel L. Jaccard
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change
Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
A data-based reconstruction of carbon-bearing deep-sea sediment shows significant changes in the global burial rate over the last glacial cycle. We calculate the impact of these deep-sea changes, as well as hypothetical changes in continental shelf burial and volcanic outgassing. Our results imply that these geological fluxes had a significant impact on ocean chemistry and the global carbon isotopic ratio, and that the natural carbon cycle was not in steady state during the Holocene.
A data-based reconstruction of carbon-bearing deep-sea sediment shows significant changes in the...
