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Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufm.p21b0528j&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #P21B-0528
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1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325), 5407 Atmospheres: Evolution
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The origin and evolution of nitrogen in the Earth's major reservoirs of atmosphere, crust, and mantle is controversial. The initial mantle acquired a δ 15N of -m 25‰ corresponding to enstatite chondrite as found in rare diamonds, and the secondary atmosphere from late accretion of volatile-rich C1 carbonaceous chondrites was +30 to +43‰ . Most diamonds and mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs) are -m 5‰ , and the present atmosphere 0‰ , requiring shifts of +20‰ and -m 30 to -m 43‰ in these two reservoirs. The present mass of N in the mantle and atmosphere are estimated at 3.5 x 1019 kg and 3.8 x 1018 kg, respectively. Initial atmospheric δ 15N could have been shifted to lower values by degassing of 15N depleted N from the mantle. However, the mantle would remain more depleted than is observed. The crustal record shows that shifts of both atmosphere and mantle could have occurred by recycling. Sedimentary rocks, and crustal hydrothermal systems that proxy for bulk crust, both show systematic trends over 2.7 Ga from the Archean (δ 15N = 15.0 +/- 1.8‰ ; 16.5 +/- 3.3‰ ); through Paleoproterozoic (δ 15N = 9.7 +/- 1.0‰ ; 9.5 +/- 2.4‰ ); to the Phanerozoic (δ 15N = 3.5 +/- 1.0‰ ; 3.0 +/- 1.2‰ ). Crustal N content has increased in parallel from 84 +/- 67 ppm, through 266 +/- 195 ppm, to 1550 +/- 1135 ppm in the Phanerozoic. These trends are consistent with progressive sequestering of atmospheric N2 into sediments, recycling of 15N enriched continental crust into the mantle, and degassing of 15N depleted from the mantle N into the atmosphere.
Jia Yu
Kerrich Rob
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