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Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO2-climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California,
Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Isabel P. Montañez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California,
Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Yves Goddéris
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS – Université Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Cindy V. Looy
Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Neil P. Griffis
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California,
Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
William A. DiMichele
Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History,
Washington, DC 20560, USA
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Short summary
Our 40 Myr CO2 reconstruction substantially refines existing late Paleozoic CO2 estimates, provides the best resolved pre-Cenozoic CO2 record, and indicates a close temporal relationship to changes in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. The GEOCLIM model used in our study allows for insight into the relative influences of uplift of the Central Pangean Mountains, intensifying aridity, and increasing mafic-to-granite ratio of outcropping rocks on changes in pCO2 through the late Paleozoic.
Our 40 Myr CO2 reconstruction substantially refines existing late Paleozoic CO2 estimates,...
