Influence of Mantle Dynamic Topographical Variations on US Mid‐Atlantic Continental Margin Estimates of Sea‐Level Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Schmelz ◽  
Kenneth G. Miller ◽  
Robert E. Kopp ◽  
Gregory S. Mountain ◽  
James V. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Level Change

Phanerozoic Oxygen

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Eugene Canfield
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Atmospheric Oxygen ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Oxygen Production ◽  
Level Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geologic Processes

This chapter discusses the modeling of the history of atmospheric oxygen. The most recently deposited sediments will also be the most prone to weathering through processes like sea-level change or uplift of the land. Thus, through rapid recycling, high rates of oxygen production through the burial of organic-rich sediments will quickly lead to high rates of oxygen consumption through the exposure of these organic-rich sediments to weathering. From a modeling perspective, rapid recycling helps to dampen oxygen changes. This is important because the fluxes of oxygen through the atmosphere during organic carbon and pyrite burial, and by weathering, are huge compared to the relatively small amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere. Thus, all of the oxygen in the present atmosphere is cycled through geologic processes of oxygen liberation (organic carbon and pyrite burial) and consumption (weathering) on a time scale of about 2 to 3 million years.

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