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Precambrian paleosols and atmospheric CO2 levels
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“Mass-balance calculations give 10 to 50 PAL of CO2 at 2.7 Ga ago and 23÷3×3 PAL of CO2 at 2.2 Ga ago (42, 168).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [42]
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“However, these analyses assume that all the CO2 that entered the soils caused dissolution, so pCO2 could have been higher if only a fraction of CO2 had been used.”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [42]
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“Geochemical measurements extend back to the late Archean and suggest that the CO 2 partial pressure (pCO 2 ) was likely significantly higher than in the modern atmosphere (Rye et al. 1995; Hessler et al. 2004; Sheldon 2006; Driese et al. 2011; Kanzaki and Murakami 2015) though significant uncertainty exists and no measurements for the early Archean or the Hadean are available”
From The young Sun's XUV-activity as a constraint for lower CO2-limits in the Earth's Archean atmosphere (2021) · cites this paper as Sheldon 2006
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sheldon, N. D.
- Affiliations
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sheldon, Nathan D.
- ORCID
- Sheldon, Nathan D.
- Venue
- Precambrian Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-06
- Volume
- 147
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 148-155
- ISSN
- 0301-9268 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2154982349
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 5.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Precambrian Research (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- 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 › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- atmospheric CO2, thermodynamic modeling, faint young Sun paradox
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