Atmospheric oxygenation caused by a change in volcanic degassing pressure

Nature

Volumn 478, Issue 7368, 2011, Pages 229-232

  Gaillard, Fabrice ^a   Scaillet, Bruno ^a   Arndt, Nicholas T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS ION; SULFUR;

CRUST; DEGASSING; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; OXYGENATION; PLANET; PRECAMBRIAN; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEA LEVEL; SULFATE; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATION; MASS INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR CYCLE; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLCANIC PRESSURE; VOLCANO;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GASES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PRESSURE; SEAWATER; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPOR PRESSURE; VOLATILIZATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 80054025183     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10460     Document Type: Article

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