Sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane as the origin of extremely 13C-depleted calcite in the Doushantuo cap carbonates in South China

Yongbo Peng1, Huiming Bao1, Ganqing Jiang2, Alan Jay Kaufman3, Shuhai Xiao4, Chuanming Zhou5 and Jiasheng Wang6, (1)Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Geoscience, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Department of Geoscience, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing, China, (6)State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Wuhan, China