Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations before 2.2 billion years ago

Nature

Volumn 378, Issue 6557, 1995, Pages 603-605

  Rye, Rob ^a   Kuo, Phillip H ^a   Holland, Heinrich D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FERROUS ION; SILICATE; WATER; CARBONIC ACID; IRON; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; ARCHEAN; GAS; GREENHOUSE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LUMINANCE; MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEONTOLOGY; SILICATES; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ARCHAEAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0029414402     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/378603a0     Document Type: Article

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