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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Lithium isotope evidence for a plumeworld ocean in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth.

Tian Gan, Meng Tian, Xi-Kai Wang, Shijie Wang, Xiao-Ming Liu, Ganqing Jiang, Benjamin C Gill, Morrison Nolan, Alan J Kaufman, Taiyi Luo and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Profile of Shuhai Xiao.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Tian GanState Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1700-3254
Meng TianCenter for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland.
Xi-Kai WangDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, NC.
Shijie WangState Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China.
Xiao-Ming LiuDepartment of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, NC.ORCID 0000-0001-7904-1056
Ganqing JiangDepartment of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154.ORCID 0000-0002-6627-2848
Benjamin C GillDepartment of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0001-7402-0811
Morrison NolanDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Denison University, Granville, OH 24060.
Alan J KaufmanDepartment of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.ORCID 0000-0003-4129-6445
Taiyi LuoState Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China.
Shuhai XiaoDepartment of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0003-4655-2663

Funding

China Postdoctoral Foundation Project | Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (China Postdoctoral Research Foundation) PC2022055MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) U1812402NSF (NSF) EAR-2020593NSF (NSF) EAR-2021207
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Abstract

The snowball Earth hypothesis predicts that continental chemical weathering diminished substantially during, but rebounded strongly after, the Marinoan ice age some 635 Mya. Defrosting the planet would result in a plume of fresh glacial meltwater with a different chemical composition from underlying hypersaline seawater, generating both vertical and lateral salinity gradients. Here, we test the plumeworld hypothesis using lithium isotope compositions in the Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone that accumulated in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth along a proximal-distal (nearshore-offshore) transect in South China. Our data show an overall decreasing δ

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continental weatheringcryogenian periodlithium isotopesplumeworld modelreverse weathering

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