کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5786440 1640637 2017 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Review of plant evolution and its effect on climate during the time of the Old Red Sandstone
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بررسی تکامل گیاه و تأثیر آن بر آب و هوا در زمان ماسه سنگ قرمز قدیمی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات زمین شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی
A substantial decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration during the mid-Palaeozoic is likely to have been the consequence partially of the evolution of rooted land plants. The earliest land plants evolved in the Ordovician but these were small cryptophytes without any roots. Much of the evidence for the evolution of vascular plants comes from the Old Red Sandstone of South Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Plants with large rooting systems evolved during the Middle Devonian and resulted in an increase in chemical weathering of silicate rocks. This, in turn, caused a contemporaneous drop in atmospheric CO2 concentration from approximately 25 times present concentration in the Cambrian to twice the present concentration by the late Carboniferous. The supposed mechanism for CO2 removal from the atmosphere involves oceanic carbonate precipitation, enhanced by plant-enhanced chemical weathering of Ca and Mg silicates.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association - Volume 128, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 431-437
نویسندگان
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