Base on the Os isotope stratigraphy together with the empirical growth rate models using Co concentrations, the growth ages
of the ferromanganese crusts MHD79 and MP3D10 distributed in the seamount of Pacific are confirmed. Through the contrast and
research on the previous achievements including ODP Leg 144 and the crusts CD29-2, N5E-06 and N1–15 of the seamount of the
Central Pacific, the uniform five growth and growth hiatus periods of them are found, and closely related to the Cenozoic
ocean evolvement process. In the Paleocene Carbon Isotope Maximum (PCIM), the rise of the global ocean productivity promoted
the growth of the seamount crust; the first growth hiatus (I) of the ferromanganese crust finished. In the Paleocene-Eocene
Thermal Maximum (PETM), though the vertical exchange of seawater was weakened, the strong terrestrial chemical weathering
led to the input of a great amount of the terrigenous nutrients, which made the bioproductivity rise, so there were no crust
hiatuses. During 52–50 Ma, the Early Eocene Optimum Climate (EECO), the two poles were warm, the latitudinal temperature gradient
was small, the wind-driven sea circulation and upwelling activity were weak, the terrestrial weathering was also weakened,
the open ocean bioproductivity decreased, and the ferromanganese crust had growth hiatus again (II). From early Middle Eocene-Late
Eocene, Oligocene, it was a long-term gradually cooling process, the strengthening of the sea circulation and upwelling led
to a rise of bioproductivity, and increase of the content of the hydrogenous element Fe, Mn and Co and the biogenous element
Cu, Zn, so that was the most favorable stage for the growth of ferromanganese crust (growth periods III and IV) in the studied
area. The hiatus III corresponded with the Eocene- Oligocene boundary, is inferred to relate with the global climate transformation,
celestial body impact event in the Eocene-Oligocene transition. From the early to the middle Miocene, a large-scale growth
hiatus (hiatus period IV) of the ferromanganese crust in the studied area is inferred to relate with temporary warm up climate
and ephemeral withdrawal of Antarctic bottom water in the early Miocene. After that, the Antarctic ice sheets extended, the
bottom water circumfluence strengthened, the ocean fertility increased, and the once interrupted crust continued to grow in
the late Miocene (growth period V).
Supported by China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association “10th Five Year” Topic (Grant No. DY105-01-04-14) 相似文献
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