{"refrec":{"BRefID":382982,"RR":"<b>Tatzel, M.; Frings, P.J.; Oelze, M.; Herwartz, D.; Luensdorf, N.K.; Wiedenbeck, M.</b> (2022). Chert oxygen isotope ratios are driven by Earth's thermal evolution. <i>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119(51)</i>: e2213076119. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213076119\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213076119</a>","BEntID":380724,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119(51)</i>: e2213076119. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213076119\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213076119</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Tatzel, M.; Frings, P.J.; Oelze, M.; Herwartz, D.; Luensdorf, N.K.; Wiedenbeck, M.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Tatzel, M. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"<span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">The </span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O/</span><sup>16</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O ratio of cherts (δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">) increases nearly monotonically by ~15‰ from the Archean to present. Two end-member explanations have emerged: cooling seawater temperature (T</span><sub>SW</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">) and increasing seawater δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O (δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>sw</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">). Yet despite decades of work, there is no consensus, leading some to view the δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> record as pervasively altered. Here, we demonstrate that cherts are a robust archive of diagenetic temperatures, despite metamorphism and exposure to meteoric fluids, and show that the timing and temperature of quartz precipitation and thus δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> are determined by the kinetics of silica diagenesis. A diagenetic model shows that δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> is influenced by heat flow through the sediment column. Heat flow has decreased over time as planetary heat is dissipated, and reasonable Archean-modern heat flow changes account for ~5‰ of the increase in δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">, obviating the need for extreme T</span><sub>SW</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> or δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>sw</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> reconstructions. The seawater oxygen isotope budget is also influenced by solid Earth cooling, with a recent reconstruction placing Archean δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>SW</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> 5 to 10‰ lower than today. Together, this provides an internally consistent view of the δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> record as driven by solid Earth cooling over billion-year timescales that is compatible with Precambrian glaciations and biological constraints and satisfyingly accounts for the monotonic nature of the δ</span><sup>18</sup><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\">O</span><sub>chert</sub><span style=\"background-color:rgb(246,246,246);color:rgb(38,38,38);\"> trend.</span>","AbstractOtherLang":null,"BibLvlCode":"AS","StandardTitle":"Chert oxygen isotope ratios are driven by Earth's thermal evolution","OrigTitleLangCode":"en","OrigTitleLangCodeExtended":"eng","OrigTitleLangID":15,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2026-06-09 01:32:41.334954","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"UserAccessRight":null,"UserAccID":null,"AuthorKeywords":"oxygen isotopes; silica diagenesis; early Earth; heat flow; climate","OtherDescriptors":null,"Notes":null,"AnaPub":2022,"MonPub":null,"DateUpdate":"2024-02-19","DateCreate":"2024-02-16","SecASFANote":null,"ConfID":null,"PeerRev":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"WoScode":"WOS:000998900700008","VABBcode":null,"OpenAcc":0,"DOI":"10.1073/pnas.2213076119"},"refs":null,"anarec":{"AnaID":382982,"PubliDate":2022,"Pagination":"e2213076119","XtraPublOfAnaID":null,"ISBN":null,"Volume":"119","Issue":"51","BRefMon":null,"BRefMonRR":null,"BRefXtra":null,"BRefXtraRR":null,"SerBRefID":43690,"SerRR":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 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