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DOI | 10.1029/2019GL082473 |
Initial Ar-40-Ar-39 Ages of the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Impact Spherules | |
Schaller, Morgan F.1; Turrin, Brent D.2; Fung, Megan K.1; Katz, Miriam E.1; Swisher, Carl C.2 | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
卷号 | 46期号:15页码:9091-9102 |
英文摘要 | We report Ar-40-Ar-39 step-heating ages of Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) boundary impact spherules from Atlantic Margin coastal plain and open ocean sites. We test the hypothesis that the P-E spherules are reworked from an earlier event (e.g., K-Pg impact at similar to 66 Ma), which predicts a cooling age discordant from their depositional age of 55.93 +/- 0.05 Ma at the P-E boundary. Isochrons from the step-heating analysis yield Ar-40-Ar-36 intercepts in excess of the modern in most cases, indicating that the spherules have excess radiogenic Ar (Ar-40*), typical of impact glasses incompletely degassed before solidification. The weighted mean of the isochron-corrected plateau age is 54.2 +/- 2.5 Ma (1 sigma), and their isochron age is 55.4 +/- 4.0 Ma, both indistinguishable from their P-E depositional age, not supporting the K-Pg reworking hypothesis. This is consistent with all other stratigraphic and geochemical evidence for an impact at the P-E boundary and ejecta distribution by air fall. Plain Language Summary We show that the radioisotopic ages of the recently discovered Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) boundary impact melt spherules (54.2 +/- 2.5 Ma) are indistinguishable from their depositional age (55.93 +/- 0.05 Ma). These initial data indicate that the material is unlikely to have been reworked from some earlier event and hence accompany the climate change at the P-E transition. These air-fall ejecta are the most isochronous P-E horizon available. Inherited radiogenic Ar-40 in the spherules is consistent with a P-E impact site at the Marquez Dome crater (eastern Texas); these carbonates overlie petroleum deposits that could have contributed C-12-enriched carbon to the atmosphere upon impact. |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
来源期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/101956 |
作者单位 | 1.Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Earth & Environm Sci, Troy, NY 12180 USA; 2.Rutgers State Univ, Earth & Planetary Sci, Piscataway, NJ USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Schaller, Morgan F.,Turrin, Brent D.,Fung, Megan K.,et al. Initial Ar-40-Ar-39 Ages of the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Impact Spherules[J],2019,46(15):9091-9102. |
APA | Schaller, Morgan F.,Turrin, Brent D.,Fung, Megan K.,Katz, Miriam E.,&Swisher, Carl C..(2019).Initial Ar-40-Ar-39 Ages of the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Impact Spherules.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(15),9091-9102. |
MLA | Schaller, Morgan F.,et al."Initial Ar-40-Ar-39 Ages of the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Impact Spherules".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.15(2019):9091-9102. |
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