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Carbonate compensation dynamics
Boudreau, B.; Middelburg, J.; Meysman, F.J.R. (2010). Carbonate compensation dynamics. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37(3): 5 pp. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041847
In: Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union: Washington. ISSN 0094-8276; e-ISSN 1944-8007, meer
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  • Boudreau, B.
  • Middelburg, J.
  • Meysman, F.J.R., meer
Abstract
    [1] Carbonate saturation (zsat) and compensation (zcc) depths change with deep-ocean acidification and basification. We present simple, explicit, mechanistic formulas for the positions of these two critical depths. In particular zcc is expressed as a function of the mean dissolved carbonate ion concentration of the deep ocean, [CO3]D, the supply of dissolvable CaCO3, Fc, and the dissolution rate constant at the sediment-water interface, kc, which we show to be essentially mass-transfer controlled. Calculations reveal that zsat and zcc are today some ~0.9 km apart and will rise and separate by as much as 1.7 km with acidification; conversely, if [CO3]D increases, zsat and zcc will deepen, but their separation will asymptote to ~0.7 km.
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