Low oxygen and argon in the Neoproterozoic atmosphere at 815 Ma
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That 50% PAL number was brought down to less than 10% PAL in a reassessment of those data.
“That number was brought down to less than 10% PAL in a reassessment of those data (Yeung, 2017), which might still have been a large increase depending on levels present during the boring billion.”
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- Authors
- Yeung, L. Y.
- Affiliations
- Rice University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yeung, Laurence Y.
- ORCID
- Yeung, Laurence Y.
- Venue
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-12
- Volume
- 480
- Pages
- 66-74
- ISSN
- 0012-821X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2765890595
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 2.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters (publishedVersion)
- Rice Research Repository (Rice University) (acceptedVersion)
- Rice Research Repository (Rice University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- Tonian, atmospheric oxygen, argon, paleoatmosphere, fluid inclusions, halite, volcanic degassing, mass-dependent fractionation, paleo-oxygenation, biogeochemical cycles
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