An expanded record of Early Cambrian carbon cycling from the Anti-Atlas Margin, Morocco

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Abstract
We present a δ13C record from the Anti-Atlas mountains of Morocco and place it in the context of a detailed regional tectonostratigraphy. We place the litho- and chemostratigraphic record in a temporal framework using precision U–Pb zircon geochronology of ashes interbedded with the same carbonate units that provide δ13C data. The variations in δ13C of carbonate occur on a wide range of time scales, suggesting that different mechanisms are involved, including non-steady state release of isotopically depleted carbon reservoirs on short (13C variation in the context of the reappearance and diversification of skeletonized metazoa during the Early Cambrian.