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@ARTICLE{Sowakiewicz:825733,
author = {Słowakiewicz, Mirosław and Tucker, Maurice E. and
Hindenberg, Katja and Mawson, Mike and Idiz, Erdem F. and
Pancost, Richard D.},
title = {{N}earshore euxinia in the photic zone of an ancient sea:
{P}art {II} – {T}he bigger picture and implications for
understanding ocean anoxia},
journal = {Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology},
volume = {461},
issn = {0031-0182},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-00045},
pages = {432 - 448},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Biomarker, palaeontological and isotopic evidence suggests
that the Late Permian carbonate seas, i.e. the Northern
(NPB) and Southern (SPB) Permian basins of northern Pangea,
were characterized by significant spatial and temporal
variations in the palaeowater-column redox state. This is
particularly the case with regard to the deposition of the
Lopingian Zechstein cycle 2 carbonate rocks. A shelf to
basin reconstruction of environmental conditions was
achieved by analysing nearly 400 core samples from 49 wells.
This allowed an evaluation of the spatial variations in
facies and broad oceanographic conditions at the basin
scale. Specifically, in the lower slope and shallow-basin
facies of the northern margin of the SPB (present-day
northern Poland and eastern Germany), highly variable
concentrations of the green sulphur bacterial biomarkers
chlorobactane and isorenieratane (and their likely
degradation products, C15 to C31 2,3,6-aryl isoprenoids,
indicative of photic zone euxinia) and homohopane indices
(indicative of anoxia), combined with the presence of a
benthic fauna and bioturbation, indicate a variable but
occasionally anoxic/euxinic water column. Locally in
lagoonal facies in the northern and southern margin of the
SPB, euxinic conditions also developed but these were likely
associated with localised conditions or benthic production
in association with microbialites. The presence of
gammacerane in the eastern SPB (south-eastern Germany and
eastern Poland) suggests elevated salinities there,
compatible with the restricted configuration of the basin.
However, a lack of these signatures in basinal settings of
the eastern SPB indicates that strongly reducing conditions
were restricted to the lower slope and shallow-basin
locations and restricted lagoons, and were not developed in
the basin centre. Moreover, this anoxia/euxinia in marginal
settings is restricted to the north-eastern part of the SPB.
The south-eastern part of the SPB (SE Poland), in contrast,
is devoid of evidence for PZE. The southern margin of the
SPB is also characterized by generally oxic-suboxic
conditions, with local anoxia limited to more restricted
embayments, and elevated salinities limited to restricted
oxic-anoxic lagoons. In the western SPB (NE England and
adjacent offshore) and the NPB (Outer Moray Firth, offshore
Scotland) the water columns were oxic-suboxic. Overall, it
appears that high but episodic primary bioproductivity of
organic matter was concentrated on (or even limited to) the
lower slopes of the SPB's north-eastern margin and the
restricted lagoons and shallow basin of its southern margin,
leading to the formation of source rocks for petroleum in
these areas. In addition, the temporal and geographical
restriction of anoxia appears to have prevented the
accumulation of large and more widespread quantities of
organic matter; in fact TOC contents exhibit a poor
correlation with ecological and anoxia indicators.
Crucially, this work confirms that the strong evidence for
PZE observed in shelf and lower slope/shallow-basin facies
of the north-eastern SPB need not be associated with
widespread, basin-scale anoxia; this conclusion has
implications for organic matter burial, carbon cycling and
biotic crises during other times in Earth history.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000385599900033},
doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.003},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/825733},
}