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The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO2 since the Devonian
Jodie Pall
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Sabin Zahirovic
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Sebastiano Doss
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Rakib Hassan
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Kara J. Matthews
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Arctic institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N
1N4, Canada
John Cannon
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
Michael Gurnis
Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
California 91125, USA
Louis Moresi
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010,
Australia
Adrian Lenardic
Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
R. Dietmar Müller
EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2006, Australia
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Short summary
Subduction zones intersecting buried carbonate platforms liberate significant atmospheric CO2 and have the potential to influence global climate. We model the spatio-temporal distribution of carbonate platform accumulation within a plate tectonic framework and use wavelet analysis to analyse linked behaviour between atmospheric CO2 and carbonate-intersecting subduction zone (CISZ) lengths since the Devonian. We find that increasing CISZ lengths likely contributed to a warmer Palaeogene climate.
Subduction zones intersecting buried carbonate platforms liberate significant atmospheric CO2...
