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Lecture 18: Tectonics and environment Read KK&V chapter 13.1, 13.2
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Climate variability: the last 0.5 My
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Climate variability: the last 0.5 My
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• The mean temperature is correlated with the sea level: during periods of low temperature (“Ice Ages”), the sea level drops because some water is tied in glaciers. During warm periods, glaciers melt and the sea level rises
• However, there were periods in the past when the Earth had no polar ice caps, and yet the sea level was still changing. Why?
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The seafloor depth follows the “square root of age”; higher spreading rates give rise to shallower ocean basins
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The mid-Cretaceous superplume event
• Increase in the world-wide rate of oceanic crust production • Shutdown in reversals of the earth’s magnetic field
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Effects on temperature and sea level
• rising global surface temperature • rising global sea level
At present plume activity is low
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• The Mid-Cretaceous super-plumes delivered increasing amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere contributing to increased alkalinity in the ocean and elevated global warming from the “greenhouse effect”.
• Computer models suggest global, annual mid-Cretaceous temperatures 8 to 12 degrees centigrade warmer than today.
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Volcanoes emitting carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid droplets which in the short term causes global cooling by blocking sunlight and in the long term sustained greenhouse warming.
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• Warm waters hold less dissolved oxygen leading to widespread anoxia in the mid-Cretaceous oceans and the deposition of organic-rich black shales.
• Some super-plume episodes such as those that formed Kerguelen Plateau, Broken Ridge and the Deccan Traps coincided with mass extinctions.
• Both LIPs and increased spreading rates contributed to warming
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• CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere
• Ocean circulation (landmass distribution, seaways, roughness of the seafloor)
Two main factors affecting the global climate:
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• Surface ocean currents are driven by wind (amospheric circulation
• Deep currents depend on surface currents, rotation of the Earth, and incoming solar radiation
• In the absense of continents, the world-encircling equatorial and circumpolar currents would inhibit the heat transfer from low to high latitudes (favoring the formation of ice polar caps)
• North-South trending land masses deflect the currents (to the right in the Northern hemisphere, and to the left in the Southern hemispere), thereby transferring the heat from the tropics to the polar regions, and reducing the temperature gradients (current example: Gulfstream)
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Climate simulation models with (A) equatorial and (B) polar continents
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245 Ma
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160 Ma
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130 Ma
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95 Ma
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60 Ma
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30 Ma
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Polar ice caps are not permanent The climate was much warmer >40 mln years ago than it is today …was it ever much colder?
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Snownball Earth
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Namibia, South Africa
750 mln years ago
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“Cambrian explosion”
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The effect of orogeny
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BLAG hypothesis: Plate tectonics influence global climate by moderating atmospheric CO2 concentrations
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BLAG hypothesis: Plate tectonics influence global climate by moderating atmospheric CO2 concentrations
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Uplift weathering hypothesis: Uplift accelerates chemical weathering, drawing down CO2, and cooling the global climate.
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The End
Enjoy the Summer!