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Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels
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“The grey lines indicate the total pressure at 2.7 Ga of 0 . 23 ± 0 . 32 bar as inferred from gas bubbles in basaltic lava flows by Som et al. (2016).”
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 Som et al. (2016)
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“The cold trap, however, might not have existed continuously during the Archean eon due to fluctuations to very low total atmospheric surface pressures (Som et al. 2016; Lammer et al. 2018; St¨ ueken et al. 2020.”
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 Som et al. 2016
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“Third, vesicle volumes in 2.7-Ga-old basaltic lava flows erupted at sea level imply a 0.23 ± 0.23–bar [2σ] paleopressure (56).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [56]
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“Marine phyllosilicates at 3.8 Ga ago are ammonium enriched (146, 147), which probably came from porewater ammonium (NH4+) derived from degraded organics (Table 1) (148, 149), and these data have been used to argue that Archean N2 was sequestered into solid phases after an early advent of biological nitrogen fixation (56, 150).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [56]
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“N 2 likely has been outgassed and built up during the Archean eon (Mikhail and Sverjensky 2014; Som et al. 2016; Lammer et al. 2018; Lammer et al. 2019; St¨ ueken et al. 2020; Sproß et al. 2021), and became the main atmospheric species besides CO 2 .”
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 Som et al. 2016
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Metadata
- Authors
- Som, S. M., Buick, R., Hagadorn, J. W., Blake, T. S., Perreault, J. M., Harnmeijer, J. P., & Catling, D. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Denver Museum of Nature and Science (US)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Som, Sanjoy M.
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2016-05-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 448-451
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2346163810
- Cited by
- 173
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 19.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Washington State University
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Keywords
- atmospheric pressure, faint young Sun paradox, Pilbara Craton, greenhouse gases, methane, pressure broadening, fluid inclusions, atmospheric pressure fluctuations
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