Why Terrestrial Stable Carbon-isotope Stratigraphy Works: a Review

作     者：FANG Linhao LU Yuanzheng DENG Shenghui 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting China University of Petroleum Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentPetro China 

出 版 物：《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》 (地质学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第88卷第5期

页      面：1603-1613页

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学科分类：070902[理学-地球化学] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：the China Oxford Scholarship Fund (COSF) from Hong Kong Burdett-Coutts Fund from Department of Earth Sciences and Graduate Student Award from St Peter’s College,University of Oxford, Wing Yip Bursary from Wing Yip Fund, London Seed Science Fund (No.2462014YJRC027) from China University of Petroleum-Beijing for this research 

主　　题：terrestrial stratigraphic correlation carbon-isotope stratigraphy diagenesis carbon cycles 

摘      要：Carbon-isotope stratigraphy launched since the early technological development of carbon- isotope measurement in 1950s, however, the emergence and advance of terrestrial carbon-isotope stratigraphy took quite a long way. At early stage the exploration of carbon-isotope stratigraphy based on the marine biological shell carbonates was verified by repeatable carbon-isotope stratigraphic data, laboratory chemical experiments and the later laboratory foraminiferal culture experiments. The breakthrough for testifying the fundamentals of terrestrial carbon-isotope stratigraphy lies on the synchronous fluctuations between the carbon-isotope stratigraphic curves derived from marine biological shell carbonates and those derived from terrestrial C3 plants. The character that carbon-isotope stratigraphic curves can be globally synchronously correlated over the marine and terrestrial/atmospheric reservoir mainly excludes the potential biasing factors, such as diagenetic bias, carbon-isotope variations in intra/inter individual plant in same species or between species, ecological changes, changes in aridity, changes in source input and representative sampling. Therefore, the fundamentals of terrestrial carbon-isotope stratigraphy based on C3 plant successfully established. The terrestrial carbon-isotope stratigraphy can be used for global stratigraphic correlation, reconstructing the evolution of atmospheric CO2 and can further verify the published global carbon-cycle models. The terrestrial carbon-isotope stratigraphy based on the compound specific biomarkers and single-grained pollen may be a promising perspective in future.