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Cadmium isotopic evidence for the evolution of marine primary productivity and the biological extinction event during the Permian-Triassic crisis from the Meishan section, South China TEXT SIZE: A A A
Cadmium (Cd) isotopic compositions in seawater are important parameters for tracing the biogeochemical cycling of Cd in modern oceans and may be used as a direct proxy for nutrient utilization by phytoplankton and an indirect proxy for primary productivity. In this study, we measured the stable Cd isotope ratios (delta Cd-114) of marine sedimentary carbonates from the Meishan section in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, South China, the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Permian-Triassic Boundary (PTB). The results suggest that the inferred marine primary productivity recorded in the marine carbonates from the Late Permian (i.e., before the mass extinction) was high and relatively stable (the delta Cd-114/110 values of carbonates range from + 0.31% to + 0.60%; after correction for salinity-controlled fractionation into inorganic calcite, the delta Cd-114/110 values of palaeo-seawater range from + 0.47% to + 0.79%). During the mass extinctions, the delta Cd-114/110 values of carbonates abruptly decreased at the beginning of each episode of mass extinction, suggesting that the primary productivity of the palaeo-ocean declined before each episode of extinction events at the PTB. We suggest that the mass extinction events at the PTB in the Meishan section could be a ripple effect due to the destruction of primary producers at the base of the food chain in the palaeo-ocean ecosystem.
 

Publication name

 CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 481 110-118; 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.02.005 MAR 20 2018

Author(s)

 Zhang, Yuxu; Wen, Hanjie; Zhu, Chuanwei; Fan, Haifeng; Cloquet, Christophe

Corresponding author(s) 

 WEN Hanjie 
 wenhanjie@vip.gyig.ac.cn  
 -Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geochem, State Key Lab Ore Deposit Geochem, Guanshui Rd 46, Guiyang 550081, Guizhou, Peoples R China
 -Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China

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