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How Earth's atmosphere evolved to an oxic state: A status report
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“These O2 levels would have only been attained when the O2 flux from the burial of organic carbon exceeded the kinetically efficient sink from O2-consuming gases (CO, H2, H2S, and SO2) from volcanism and metamorphism plus fluxes of reducing cations such as Fe2+ from seafloor vents (9, 120, 121, 123, 124).”
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“As the atmosphere on early Earth was non-oxidizing (Catling and Claire, 2005), the ocean would not have been oxidized, so it is believed to have contained high levels of the reduced form of iron (Fe2+), which may have played a significant role in prebiotic redox reactions.”
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“However, on the modern Earth, even if all the surface biomass (4.4 × 1017 Tmol C) were oxidized, only 1% of atmospheric oxygen would be depleted (69).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Catling, D. C., & Claire, M. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Catling, David C.
- Venue
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-08
- Volume
- 237
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 1-20
- ISSN
- 0012-821X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2008608758
- Cited by
- 376
- References
- 129
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 21
- FWCI
- 19.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters (publishedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Keywords
- atmospheric oxygenation, Great Oxidation, Snowball Earth, methane, greenhouse gases, carbon cycle, oxygenic photosynthesis, early atmosphere, Precambrian
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