Transition to an oxygen-rich atmosphere with an extensive overshoot triggered by the Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 419, Issue , 2015, Pages 178-186

  Harada, Mariko ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^a   Sekine, Yasuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygen; Biogeochemical cycles; Paleoproterozoic; Snowball Earth; The great oxidation event

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SNOWBALL EARTH;

OXYGEN;

EID: 84937762007     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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