GEOL766: Earth Systems Change

Discussion T7: Thursday, Nov. 20 and Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008: Tectonic and climate interactions

A. Climate/tectonic interactions: Overview
1. Molnar, P., and England, P., 1990, Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg?: Nature, v. 346, p. 29-34.
2. Raymo, M.E., and Ruddiman, W.F., 1992, Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate: Nature, v. 359, p. 117-122.
3. Kump, L.R., Brantley, S.L., and Arthur, M.A., 2000, Chemical Weathering, Atmospheric CO2, and Climate: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 611-667.

B. Tectonic uplifts and marine isotope records:
4. Basu, A.R., Jacobsen, S.B., Poreda, R.J., Dowling, C.B., and Aggarwal, P.K., 2001, Large Groundwater Strontium Flux to the Oceans from the Bengal Basin and the Marine Strontium Isotope Record: Science, v. 293, p. 1470-1473.
5. Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., and Ravizza, G., 2000, The marine osmium isotope record: Terra Nova, v. 12, p. 205-219.
6. Huyghe, P., Galy, A., Mugnier, J.-L., and France-Lanord, C., 2001, Propagation of the thrust system and erosion in the Lesser Himalaya: Geochemical and sedimentological evidence: Geology, v. 29, p. 1007-1010.
7. Galy, V., France-Lanord, C., Beyssac, O., Faure, P., Kudrass, H., and Palhol, F., 2007, Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system: Nature, v. 450, p. 407-410.

C. Using stable isotopes to infer the uplifting history:
8. Wang, C., Zhao, X., Liu, Z., Lippert, P.C., Graham, S.A., Coe, R.S., Yi, H., Zhu, L., Liu, S., and Li, Y., 2008, Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 105, p. 4987-4992.
9. Mulch, A., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Perkins, M.E., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2008, A Miocene to Pleistocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada (California): Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 105, p. 6819-6824.
10. Mulch, A., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2006, Earth science: The rise and growth of Tibet: Nature, v. 439, p. 670-671.
11. Rowley, D.B., and Currie, B.S., 2006, Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet: Nature, v. 439, p. 677-681.

D. Using stable isotopes of mammal teeth to infer the uplifting history:
12. Wang, Y., Kromhout, E., Zhang, C., Xu, Y., Parker, W., Deng, T., and Qiu, Z., 2008, Stable isotopic variations in modern herbivore tooth enamel, plants and water on the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for paleoclimate and paleoelevation reconstructions: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 260, p. 359-374.
13. Wang, Y., Wang, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, C., Li, Q., Tseng, Z.J., Takeuchi, G., and Deng, T., 2008, Stable isotopes in fossil mammals, fish and shells from Kunlun Pass Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Paleo-climatic and paleo-elevation implications: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, p. 73-85.
14. Wang, Y., Deng, T., and Biasatti, D., 2006, Ancient diets indicate significant uplift of southern Tibet after ca. 7 Ma: Geology, v. 34, p. 309-312.
15. Wang, Y., and Deng, T., 2005, A 25 m.y. isotopic record of paleodiet and environmental change from fossil mammals and paleosols from the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 236, p. 322-338.

E. More recent CO2, CH4 and anthropogenic climate change:
These references are just for somebody who want to have an overall impression on what CO2 and CH4 concentrations were in the pre-industrial times. Not need to be discussed in the class unless you are interested in this topic

16. Luthi, D., Le Floch, M., Bereiter, B., Blunier, T., Barnola, J.-M., Siegenthaler, U., Raynaud, D., Jouzel, J., Fischer, H., Kawamura, K., and Stocker, T.F., 2008, High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000-800,000 years before present: Nature, v. 453, p. 379-382.
17. Loulergue, L., Schilt, A., Spahni, R., Masson-Delmotte, V., Blunier, T., Lemieux, B., Barnola, J.-M., Raynaud, D., Stocker, T.F., and Chappellaz, J., 2008, Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years: Nature, v. 453, p. 383-386.
18. Rosenzweig, C., Karoly, D., Vicarelli, M., Neofotis, P., Wu, Q., Casassa, G., Menzel, A., Root, T.L., Estrella, N., Seguin, B., Tryjanowski, P., Liu, C., Rawlins, S., and Imeson, A., 2008, Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change: Nature, v. 453, p. 353-357.