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Annihilation of ecosystems by large asteroid impacts on the early Earth
Abstract
Large asteroid impacts produced globally lethal conditions by evaporating large volumes of ocean water on the early Earth. The Earth may have been continuously habitable by ecosystems that did not depend on photosynthesis as early as 4.44 Gyr BP (before present). Only a brief interval after 3.8 Gyr exists between the time when obligate photosynthetic organisms could continuously evolve and the time when the palaeontological record indicates highly evolved photosynthetic ecosystems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sleep, N. H., Zahnle, K. J., Kasting, J. F., & Morowitz, H. J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Ames Research Center (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- George Mason University (US)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1989-11
- Volume
- 342
- Issue
- 6246
- Pages
- 139-142
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1984632697
- Cited by
- 574
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 13.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Keywords
- asteroid impact, early Earth, ocean evaporation, origin of photosynthesis, habitability, Late Heavy Bombardment
- MeSH terms
- Biological Evolution, Geology, Oceans and Seas, Paleontology, Photosynthesis, Time Factors, Ecosystem, Earth, Planet, Minor Planets, Geological Phenomena
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