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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.”
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“The microbial production of greenhouse gases under ferru‐ ginous conditions has led to the suggestion that gases such as CH4 or N2O could have been important in regulating early Earth's climate when solar luminosities were lower (e.g., Kasting, 2005; Stanton et al., 2018).”
BackgroundBai, H., Kuang, H., Liu, Y., Peng, N., Chen, X., & Wang, Y. (2020) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109967 · Cited by 34
Decreasing extents of Archean serpentinization contributed to the rise of an oxidized atmosphere
Leong, J. A. M., Ely, T., & Shock, E. L. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27589-7 · Cited by 35
Late Proterozoic Transitions in Climate, Oxygen, and Tectonics, and the Rise of Complex Life
Planavsky, N. J., Tarhan, L. G., Bellefroid, E. J., Evans, D. A. D., Reinhard, C. T., Love, G. D., & Lyons, T. W. (2015) · The Paleontological Society Papers · doi:10.1017/s1089332600002965 · Cited by 32
“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).”
BackgroundCourt, R. W., & Sephton, M. A. (2009) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.006 · Cited by 32
Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon
Lyons, T. W., Reinhard, C. T., Love, G. D., & Xiao, S. (2012) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118280874.ch20 · Cited by 31
“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…”
BackgroundInfluentialMicrobial Sulfur Isotope Fractionation in the Chicxulub Hydrothermal System
KRING, D. A., Whitehouse, M. J., & Schmieder, M. (2020) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2020.2286 · Cited by 32
“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.”
BackgroundRadiative forcings for 28 potential Archean greenhouse gases
Byrne, B., & Goldblatt, C. (2014) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-10-1779-2014 · Cited by 30
Martin, H., Claeys, P., Gargaud, M., Pinti, D. L., & Selsis, F. (2006) · Earth Moon and Planets · doi:10.1007/s11038-006-9090-x · Cited by 34
Edwards, C. T., Pufahl, P. K., Hiatt, E. E., & Kyser, T. K. (2012) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.04.020 · Cited by 29
Terrestrial exoplanets: diversity, habitability and characterization
Selsis, F., Kaltenegger, L., & Paillet, J. (2008) · Physica Scripta · doi:10.1088/0031-8949/2008/t130/014032 · Cited by 28
Melezhik, V. A., Young, G. M., Eriksson, P. G., Altermann, W., Kump, L. R., & Lepland, A. (2012) · Frontiers in earth sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29670-3_2 · Cited by 27
The Changing Climate: Past, Present, Future
Quante, M. (2009) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2 · Cited by 26
“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…”
BackgroundKuwahara, H., & Sugita, S. (2015) · Icarus · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.05.007 · Cited by 27
The Origin of Life: What Is the Question?
Malaterre, C., Jeancolas, C., & Nghe, P. (2022) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2021.0162 · Cited by 30
“…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
White, J. W. C., Alley, R. B., Brigham‐Grette, J., Fitzpatrick, J. J., JENNINGS, A. E., Johnsen, S. J., Miller, G. H., Nerem, R. S., & Polyak, L. (2010) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.025 · Cited by 25
“Similarly the slow increase in solar irradiance can be discounted on time scales 100 Ma (e.g., Kasting, 2005).”
BackgroundHORSCROFT, F. D. M., Mossman, D. J., Reimer, T. O., & Hennigh, Q. (2012) · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks · doi:10.2110/sepmsp.101.075 · Cited by 25
“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.”
BackgroundInfluentialReconstructing Early Microbial Life
Kaçar, B. (2024) · Annual Review of Microbiology · doi:10.1146/annurev-micro-041522-103400 · Cited by 25
“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).”
Lifeness signatures and the roots of the tree of life
Malaterre, C. (2010) · Biology & Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s10539-010-9220-8 · Cited by 29
“…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.”
BackgroundAttempts to Probe the Ozone Layer and the Ultraviolet-B Levels of the Past
Björn, L. O., & McKenzie, R. (2007) · AMBIO · doi:10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[366:atptol]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 24
“Therefore methane has been favored as the main greenhouse gas (2, 3).”
BackgroundStochastic Prebiotic Chemistry within Realistic Geological Systems
Dass, A. V., Hickman‐Lewis, K., Brack, A., Kee, T. P., & Westall, F. (2016) · ChemistrySelect · doi:10.1002/slct.201600829 · Cited by 28
Diminished greenhouse warming from Archean methane due to solar absorption lines
Byrne, B., & Goldblatt, C. (2015) · Climate of the past · doi:10.5194/cp-11-559-2015 · Cited by 20
“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).”
BackgroundTracing the formation and differentiation of the Earth by non-traditional stable isotopes
Teng, F., Wang, S., & Moynier, F. (2019) · Science China Earth Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11430-019-9520-6 · Cited by 22
“Therefore, the Ni biogeochemical cycle has a profound influence on how surface environments evolve during the GOE.”
BackgroundInfluentialConsiderations for Photochemical Modeling of Possible Hycean Worlds
Cooke, G. J., & Madhusudhan, N. (2024) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad8cda · Cited by 30
“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.”
InfluentialLuo, Q., Zhong, N., Wang, Y., Ma, L., & Li, M. (2015) · International Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1007/s00531-015-1163-5 · Cited by 18
“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).”
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Metadata
- 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 › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › 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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