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Variations in Nitrogen Isotope Composition in Clay Deposits of the Permian–Triassic Boundary Beds in the Verkhoyansk Region (Northeast Asia) and Their Implication for Reconstruction of Marine Environments

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The first sediment N-isotope data on the Permian–Triassic boundary transition of the Verkhoyansk region are obtained. Together with the other published materials on other regions of eastern Russia allow us to distinguish a number of N-isotope intervals of various ranks in the Permian–Triassic of eastern Russia. In addition to the well-known method of reconstructing the redox conditions of the marine environment from N‑isotope data (in combination with data on elevated concentrations of redox-sensitive trace metals), the possibility of using N-isotope data also to determine the direction of temperature changes in the marine environment is substantiated. It is assumed that N-isotope signals are primarily a reflection of events associated with denitrification and N2 fixation, the main processes of the global nitrogen biogeochemical cycle (NBC). Deviations in the direction of increasing δ15N values in the considered sections are associated with an increase in upwelling activity and the supply of cool deep waters enriched in the heavy N isotope to the shelf zone; the opposite deviations are associated with a slowdown or cessation of inflow of cool deep waters. The N-isotope data obtained, in combination with the published materials on O-isotope thermometry in the Tethyan Superrealm during the Permian and Triassic, indicate a very likely coincidence of the direction of temperature changes caused by both regional (upwelling) and global (climatic) events of that time. In this regard, the reconstructions of the marine environment that we conduct by the example of the Permian–Triassic sections of Northeast Asia (Verkhoyansk, Kolyma–Omolon, and South Primorye) seem to be appropriate, although they require additional confirmation on the material from other sections of the world. The problems associated with differences in the average δ15N values in the Permian–Triassic sections of different provinces of the Boreal Superrealm, as well as other superrealms, are considered.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to E. Riegler (HBLFA Francisco-Josephinum, BLT Wieselburg, Austria) for isotope analyses, B.G. Pokrovskii (Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow), A.B. Kuznetsov (Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, RAS, St. Petersburg), T. Algeo (University of Cincinnati, USA), S. Grasby (Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary), S. Schoepfer (University of Washington, USA), Y.D. Sun (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), and an anonymous reviewer for constructive criticism. We also acknowledge D. Bond (University of Hull, United Kingdom), R.V. Kutygin (Institute of Diamond and Precious Metal Geology, Siberian Branch of the RAS), E.S. Sobolev (Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk), and V.G. Khomich (Far Eastern Geological Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the RAS, Vladivostok) for the consultations, and we thank M. Joachimski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), H. Wierzbowski (Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw), A. Baud (University of Lausanne), G.N. Sadovnikov (Russian State Geological Prospecting University, Moscow), and A.M. Popov (Far Eastern Geological Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the RAS, Vladivostok) for their help in searching for literature.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 18-05-00023, 18-05-00191, and 20-05-00604), in part by the subsidy allocated to the Kazan Federal University, for the state assignment no. 671-2020-0049 in the sphere of scientific activity, and by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (contract no. 14.Y26.31.0029) in the framework of the Resolution no. 220 of the Government of the Russian Federation. M. Horacek is grateful to the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the partial funding of conducting the research. This paper is a contribution to IGCP 630.

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  3. Shilo North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 685000, Magadan, Russia

    A. S. Biakov

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Zakharov, Y.D., Horacek, M. & Biakov, A.S. Variations in Nitrogen Isotope Composition in Clay Deposits of the Permian–Triassic Boundary Beds in the Verkhoyansk Region (Northeast Asia) and Their Implication for Reconstruction of Marine Environments. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 29, 192–214 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593821020076

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