2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of snowball Earth events and rise of the atmospheric oxygen based on geologicalg survey of glacial sediments of the Paleoproterozoic
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14403004
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
固体地球物理学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TAJIKA Eiichi The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Dept.of Earth Planet.Sci., Associate Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 助教授 (70251410)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TADA Ryuji The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Dept.of Earth Planet.Sci., Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 教授 (30143366)
ISOZAKI Yukio The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Dept.General Systems Studies, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (90144914)
HAMANO Yozo The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Dept.of Earth Planet.Sci., Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 教授 (90011709)
NAGAHARA Hiroko The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Dept.of Earth Planet.Sci., Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 教授 (80172550)
OHKOUCHI Naohiko Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, Researcher, 地球内部変動研究センター, 研究員 (00281832)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | snowball Earth / Proterozoic / glacial sediments / glaciation |
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| Research Abstract |
In this project, we conducted geological surveys of the Huronian Supergroup, Ontario, in Canada to investigate environmental changes during the Paleoproterozoic (mainly, ca. 2450-2200 million years ago). We also conducted geological surveys of the Transvaal Supergroup in South Africa and the Snowy Pass Supergroup in USA for comparison. We took many rock samples from out crops and boring core samples, and analyzed them to investigate variations of color, grain size, chemical composition, and isotopic composition.
We found that concentration of manganese above the uppermost diamictite of the Coleman Member in the Gowganda Formation. We also found that there is concentration of hematite which precedes the manganese anomaly. These evidences suggest that oxygen contents in the atmosphere and the surface ocean should have been high just after the Gowganda glaciation. Considering similar ages (ca. 2222 Ma), comparable amounts of manganese deposited per unit area, and sedimentary sequence (glacial diamictite -manganese and iron concentration -redbed) between the Huronian Supergroup in Canada and the Transvaal Supergroup in South Africa, we infer that these two areas may have recorded the same global events, namely, the snowball glaciation and the oxygen rise at ca. 2222 Ma.
We also investigate variations of carbon isotopic composition of carbonates and organic carbon, mass independent fractionation of sulfur isotopes of pyrites, and paleomagnetism, based on the samples taken from the Huronian Supergroup and Snowy Pass Supergroup. We also study carbon cycle and paleoclimate change during the snowball Earth events using numerical models.
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[Journal Article] A negative fold test on the Lorrain Formation of the Huronian Supergroup : Uncertainty on the paleolatitude of the Paleoproterozoic Gowganda glaciation and implications for the great oxygenation event.2005
Author(s)
Isaac A.H., Kirschvink, J.L., Tajika, E., Tada, R., Hamano, Y., Yamamoto, S.
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Journal Title
Earth Planet.Sci.Lett. 232
Pages: 315-332
Description
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