Extensive carbon cycle between peatland and vegetation:Insights from high net primary productivity of the Middle Jurassic in northwestern China  

作　　者：Yang-Yang Huang Hao Liang Long-Yi Shao Bin Yang Baruch Spiro Jia-Min Zhou Jing Lu Tan-Guang Fan 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory for Fine Exploration and Inteligent Development of Coal Resources,Bejing 100083,China [2]College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering,China University of Mining and Technology(Bejing),Bejing 100083,China [3]Research Institute of Exploration&Development,PetroChina Tuha Oilfield Company,Hami 839009,China [4]Exploration Company,PetroChina Tuha Oilfield Company,Hami 839009,China [5]Department of Earth Sciences,Natural History Museum,London SW75BD,UK [6]School of Marine Sciences University of Haifa,Mount Carmel Haifa,Israel

出　　处：《Journal of Palaeogeography》2024年第4期1016-1028,共13页古地理学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.42321002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41572090)。

摘　　要：Peatlands have obvious carbon storage capacity and are crucial in mitigating global climate change.As the end-product of peatlands,coals have preserved a large amount of palaeoenvironmental information.The carbon accumulation rate and the net primary productivity(NPP)of coal-forming peatlands can be used as proxies for recovering palaeoenvironments.A super-thick coal seam(42°35'N,91°25'E)was developed in the Middle Jurassic Xishanyao Formation in the Shaerhu coalfield in the southern margin of the Tuha(Turpan-Hami)Basin,northwestern China.In this study,we use the time series analysis to identify the periods of Milankovitch orbital cycles in the Gamma-ray curve of this super-thick(124.85 m)coal and then use the obtained cycle periods of 405 ka,173 ka,44 ka,37.6 ka,22.5 ka to calculate the timeframe of the coalforming peatlands which ranges from 2703.44 to 2975.11 ka.Considering that the carbon content of the coal seam is 78.32%and the carbon loss during the coalification is about 25.80%,the carbon accumulation rate of the targeted coal seam is estimated to be 58.47-64.34 g C/m^(2)·a,and the NPP is estimated to be252.28-277.63 g C/m^(2)·a.The main palaeoenvironmental factors controlling the NPP of peatlands are CO_(2)content,palaeolatitude and palaeotemperature.The reduced NPP values of the palaeo-peatlands in the Shaerhu coalfield can be attributed to the mid-palaeolatitude and/or too low atmospheric CO_(2)contents.To a certain extent,the NPP of palaeo-peatlands reflects the changes in atmospheric CO_(2),which can further reveal the dynamic response of the global carbon cycle to climate change.Therefore,predicting the level of NPP in the Middle Jurassic and studying the final destination of carbon in the ecosystem are beneficial to understanding the coal-forming process and palaeoenvironment.

关 键 词：Xishanyao Formation Super-thick coal Milankovitch cycle Carbon accumulation rate Carbon cycle 

分 类 号：P534.52[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] X171.1[天文地球—地质学]