The Global Oxygen Cycle

Fundamentals of Geobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-104

  Kasting, James F ^a   Canfield, Donald E ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atmospheric O2 rise, with redox balance mandatory; Chemistry and biochemistry of oxygen; Global oxygen cycle; Hydrogen escape, diffusion through homopause; Low atmospheric O2 effects, on global redox budget; Modern O2 cycle, the O2 sink and serpentinization; O2, from leaks in the marine organic carbon cycle; Oxygen's role in metabolism; Redox balance, and conservation of electrons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886519476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118280874.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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