The effect of widespread early aerobic marine ecosystems on methane cycling and the Great Oxidation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 434, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-51

  Daines, Stuart J ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope record; Great Oxidation; Methane; Methanotrophy; Modelling; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; GALLIUM; ISOTOPES; METHANE; MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE COOLING; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; HYDROGEN ESCAPE; METHANOTROPHY; OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84949818209     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.021     Document Type: Article

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