A cold, hard look at ancient oxygen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14514-14515

  Wing, Boswell A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 17;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBONIFEROUS; GLACIATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 84883346157     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313197110     Document Type: Note

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