Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.1299c&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Aug. 1990, p. 1299-1302. Research supported by Columbia University.
Physics
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Atmospheric Heat Budget, Basalt, Carbon Dioxide, Cretaceous Period, Greenhouse Effect, Volcanoes, Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Climate Change, Environment Effects
Scientific paper
A greenhouse warming caused by increased emissions of carbon dioxide from the Deccan Traps volcanism has been suggested as the cause of the terminal Cretaceous extinctions on land and in the sea. Total eruptive and noneruptive CO2 output by the Deccan eruptions (from 6 to 20 x 10 to the 16th moles) over a period of several hundred thousand years is estimated based on best estimates of the CO2 weight fraction of the original basalts and basaltic melts, the fraction of CO2 degassed, and the volume of the Deccan Traps eruptions. Results of a model designed to estimate the effects of increased CO2 on climate and ocean chemistry suggest that increases in atmospheric pCO2 due to Deccan Traps CO2 emissions would have been less than 75 ppm, leading to a predicted global warming of less than 1 C over several hundred thousand years. It is concluded that the direct climate effects of CO2 emissions from the Deccan eruptions would have been too weak to be an important factor in the end-Cretaceous mass extinctions.
Caldeira Ken
Rampino Michael R.
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