A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth

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The loss of mass‐independent fractionation in sulfur due to a Palaeoproterozoic collapse of atmospheric methane

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UV shielding of NH3and O2by organic hazes in the Archean atmosphere

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Precambrian paleosols and atmospheric CO2 levels

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Isotopic Evidence for an Aerobic Nitrogen Cycle in the Latest Archean

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Organic haze, glaciations and multiple sulfur isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era

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Using Biogenic Sulfur Gases as Remotely Detectable Biosignatures on Anoxic Planets

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Geological sulfur isotopes indicate elevated OCS in the Archean atmosphere, solving faint young sun paradox

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Micro‐scale sulphur isotope evidence for sulphur cycling in the late Archean shallow ocean

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Methanotrophs regulated atmospheric sulfur isotope anomalies during the Mesoarchean (Tumbiana Formation, Western Australia)

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Redox State of the Neoarchean Earth Environment

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Multiple oscillations in Neoarchaean atmospheric chemistry

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The Impact of Molecular Oxygen on Anion Composition in a Hazy Archean Earth Atmosphere

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Were Neoarchean atmospheric methane hazes and early Paleoproterozoic glaciations driven by the rise of oxygen in surface environments?

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