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Using more plausible mass fluxes, Kasting (61) estimated an abiotic methane flux from impactors to be only ~0.3 Tmol/year at 3.8 Ga.
“Using more plausible mass fluxes, Kasting (61) estimated an abiotic methane flux from impactors to be only ~0.3 Tmol/year at 3.8 Ga.”
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BackgroundLimited role for methane in the mid-Proterozoic greenhouse
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“A sediment diagenesis model coupled to a carbon cycle model was used to show high Precambrian pCO2, thereby helping to explain the apparent lack of glacial deposits in the mid Proterozoic (Kasting, 2005).”
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“This methane may have been important for climate stability in light of the Faint Young Sun (Feulner, 2012), and the subsequent loss of this methane flux with the progressive oxidation of Earth's surface environments may have triggered snowball glaciation in the Paleo- and Neoproterozoic (Kasting, 2005).”
BackgroundMethanogenesis sustained by sulfide weathering during the Great Oxidation Event
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“…by rifting of supercontinents in low latitudes (Evans et al., 1997; Evans, 2003), (iii) elimination of the CH4 greenhouse by oxidation due to the rise of O2 (Pavlov et al., 2000; Kasting, 2004, 2005) and (iv) methane greenhouse removal at the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis (Kopp et al., 2005).”
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“Since CH4 is a greenhouse gas, abiogenic methanogenesis via komatiite serpentinization may have influenced the average Precambrian atmospheric temperature (Kasting, 2005).”
BackgroundDid plate tectonics shutdown in the Palaeoproterozoic? A view from the Siderian geologic record
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“, 2012); 2) snowball glaciation triggered by ice-albedo and CO2 conditions (Hoffman and Schrag, 2000); and 3) elimination of the methane greenhouse by the rise of atmospheric oxygen (Pavlov et al., 2000; Kasting, 2005) or onset of oxygenic photosynthesis (Kopp et al.”
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“this gas might have contributed to early pre‐biotic warming [Kasting, 2005; Emmanuel and Ague, 2007] and might support the atmospheric mixing ratio in the present Martian”
BackgroundCo-evolution of primitive methane-cycling ecosystems and early Earth’s atmosphere and climate
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“This is because photochemical reactions involv- ing CH4 produce higher-order hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane (C2H6) and formaldehyde (H2CO) (Kasting et al., 1983; Zahnle, 1986; Ogura et al., 1988; Pavlov et al., 2001; Kasting, 2005).”
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“It has 84 been estimated that the GOE would have shortened the lifetime of methane in the atmosphere from 85 10 5 to ~10 1 years (as found at present; Pavlov et al., 2003; Kasting, 2005).”
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“…of Earth history by helping warm Earth’s surface temperature enough to sustain liquid water under considerably lower solar radiation (Haqq-Misra, Domagal-Goldman, Kasting, & Kasting, 2008; Kasting, 2005; Pavlov, Kasting, Brown, Rages, & Freedman, 2000; Roberson, Roadt, Halevy, & Kasting, 2011).”
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“In addition, low O2 concentrations (and thus low oxidative potential) would have increased the residence time of atmospheric methane by a factor of 104–105 relative to that of today (Kasting, 2005, references therein).”
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Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon
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“Many models now imagine something closer to a ‘slushball,’ with large ice-free areas at equatorial latitudes (Hyde et al., 2000; Poulsen et al., 2001; Poulsen, 2003; Peltier et al., 2007) or relatively thin tropical sea ice (McKay, 2000; Pollard and Kasting, 2005), but the stability of such conditions is an important…”
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“Nonetheless, Hadean environmental chemistry (e.g., Kasting, 2005; Russell and Arndt, 2005; Zahnle et al., 2007, 2020; Arndt and Nisbet, 2012) may have precluded the availability of sulfate as an energy source.”
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“The fact that the global temperature varied only between values which allowed for liquid water during the early phase (faint young sun paradox) is most probably due to elevated concentrations of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and/or methane (CH 4 ), which are involved in long-term feedback loops, which st…”
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“…evolved ( e.g., atmospheric composition, temperature and acidity of the oceans, presence of wet-dry cycles, freeze-thaw cycles, volcanism and hydrothermal vents, high-energy meteoritic shocks, serpentinization and metamorphic reactions) (Kasting, 2005; Benner et al., 2020; Damer and Deamer, 2020).”
Past rates of climate change in the Arctic
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“Similarly the slow increase in solar irradiance can be discounted on time scales 100 Ma (e.g., Kasting, 2005).”
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“Kasting (2005) argues that on a colder Earth, silicate weathering would have been inhibited, as would aqueous transport and sedimentation, whereas volcanism would have continued.”
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“In the deep past, our Sun generated approximately 10–20% less sunlight than to-day,which most planetary models indicate should lead to a plunging of temperatures to well below the freezing point of water (119).”
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“…to settle for is possible scenarios populated by experimentally reconstructed entities that are compatible with the environmental conditions supposed to be those of the primitive Earth (e.g. Kasting 2005), and that are built from chemical compounds that are also shown to be prebiotically relevant.”
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“Therefore methane has been favored as the main greenhouse gas (2, 3).”
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Diminished greenhouse warming from Archean methane due to solar absorption lines
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“Given the long atmospheric lifetime, concentrations of ≈ 10 ppmv could have been sustained by impacts from space and geologic sources in the Archean (Kasting, 2005).”
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“Therefore, the Ni biogeochemical cycle has a profound influence on how surface environments evolve during the GOE.”
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“H 2 ), similar to the weakly reducing conditions expected during the Archean eon (4 - 2.4 Gyr ago) on Earth (Catling et al. 2001; Kasting 2005; Catling & Zahnle 2020), methanogenesis could add significant quantities of CH 4 to the atmosphere.”
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“In the Proterozoic atmosphere (0.75– 2.3 Ga), the methane concentrations (10–300 ppm) were also much higher than PAL (1.7 ppm; Pavlov et al. 2003; Kasting 2005).”
BackgroundInfluential
- Authors
- KASTING, J.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- KASTING, J
- ORCID
- KASTING, J
- Venue
- Precambrian Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-06-30
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 119-129
- ISSN
- 0301-9268 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2007558707
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 10.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Precambrian Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Keywords
- methane, greenhouse gases, Great Oxidation, atmospheric oxygen rise, methane photolysis, organic haze, carbon dioxide, methanogenesis, fermentation, Proterozoic
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