Comment on "Calcareous Nannoplankton Response to Surface-Water Acidification Around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a"
Comment on "Calcareous Nannoplankton Response to Surface-Water Acidification Around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a"
Erba et al. (Reports, 23 July 2010, p. 428) attributed calcareous nannofossil morphology and assemblage changes across Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a to the effects of surface ocean acidification. We argue that the quality of carbonate preservation in these sequences, the unsupported assumptions of the biotic response to acidity, and the absence of independent proxy estimates for ocean pH or atmospheric pCO2 render this conclusion questionable.
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Gibbs, S.J.
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Robinson, S.A.
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Bown, P.R.
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Jones, T.D.
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Henderiks, J.
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8 April 2011
Gibbs, S.J.
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Robinson, S.A.
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Bown, P.R.
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Jones, T.D.
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Henderiks, J.
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Gibbs, S.J., Robinson, S.A., Bown, P.R., Jones, T.D. and Henderiks, J.
(2011)
Comment on "Calcareous Nannoplankton Response to Surface-Water Acidification Around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a".
Science, 332 (6026), .
(doi:10.1126/science.1199459).
Abstract
Erba et al. (Reports, 23 July 2010, p. 428) attributed calcareous nannofossil morphology and assemblage changes across Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a to the effects of surface ocean acidification. We argue that the quality of carbonate preservation in these sequences, the unsupported assumptions of the biotic response to acidity, and the absence of independent proxy estimates for ocean pH or atmospheric pCO2 render this conclusion questionable.
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