The influence of land-surface reactivity on atmospheric carbon dioxide during past hyperthermals
| Project/Area Number |
22K14137
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 17050:Biogeosciences-related
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| Research Institution | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Sproson Adam 国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 海洋機能利用部門(生物地球化学センター), Young Research Fellow (40937728)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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| Keywords | Silicate weathering / Magnesium isotopes / Lithium isotopes / Paleoclimate / Paleoweathering / Hyperthermals / Beryllium isotopes |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project will determine the Li, Mg and Be isotope variation of marine sediments to understand how weathering in the Amazon River basin responds to a global warming of 2°C. This will help ascertain the capacity for weathering to reverse global warming in the future under increasing CO2 emissions.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In this study, marine sediments were analysed for magnesium and lithium isotopes to create a time-series of chemical and physical silicate weathering in the Earth’s geological past. The purpose is to elucidate the response of silicate weathering, which experts a major control on atmospheric CO2 concentration, to regional and global warming. A warmer, wetter climate should provide more energy and fluids for silicate weathering reaction at the Earth’s surface to occur, consuming atmospheric CO2 and reversing the global warming trend. However, if the products of silicate weathering remain in the surficial system for too long before being deposited in marine sediments, they are converted back to silicates (reverse weathering), remitting the consumed CO2 leading to no net change on climate.
During the past fiscal year, 200 sediment samples from several International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) cores collected from deep ocean basins as well as the Amazon margin were ordered, dried, crushed and chemically processed to extract the carbonate, iron oxide and silicate phase. Magnesium is currently being purified from these phases with further purification Li still to be conducted. Magnesium and Li isotopes with then be measured via inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. This work will provide records of past weathering during periods of regional (Amazonian) and global warming over tens of thousands to millions of years to help understand the silicate weathering capacity to reverse global warming.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Marine sediments from the Amazon margin, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean were ordered and received from IODP. The samples were dried and crushed before undergoing a leaching technique to separate the carbonate, iron oxide and silicate phases. Major, minor and Rare Earth elements of these phases have been analysed successfully. These phases are now being purified with respect to magnesium and lithium which will then be measured for Mg and Li isotopes which is progressing smoothly.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Currently, 50 samples have been dried, crushed, leached, analysed for element concentration and been purified for magnesium and lithium. Magnesium and Li isotopes will be measured by inductively coupled plasma isotope mass spectrometry at Kochi Core Center within the next few months. Following that, a further 150 samples will undergo the same workflow.
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