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Articles | Volume 21, issue 24
Articles | Volume 21, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-5653-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-5653-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 24
Research article
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18 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 18 Dec 2024

Were early Archean carbonate factories major carbon sinks on the juvenile Earth?

Wanli Xiang, Jan-Peter Duda, Andreas Pack, Mark van Zuilen, and Joachim Reitner

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We investigated the formation of early Archean (~3.5–3.4 Ga) carbonates in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, demonstrating the presence of an oceanic crust, an organo-carbonate, and a microbial carbonate factory. Notably, (a)biotic organic matter and hydrothermal fluids were centrally involved in carbonate precipitation. Since carbonates were widespread in the Archean, they may have constituted major carbon sinks that modulated early Earth’s carbon cycle and, hence, climate system.
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