Evolution Of The Archean Atmosphere

Archean atmospheric evolution is the transition from an abiological atmosphere, to an atmosphere for which the composition and therefore climate is highly altered by life.

We review the key processes and transitions in this evolution.

Colin Goldblatt, Jake K. Eager-Nash, Julia E. Horne

Comments: 16 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication as: Colin Goldblatt, Jake K. Eager-Nash, and Julia E. Horne (in press) “Evolution of the Archean Atmosphere”, in: “The Archean Earth” (ed.: Martin Homan, Paul Mason, Richard Ernst, Timothy Lyons, Christoph Heubeck, Dominic Papineau, Eva Stueeken, Rajat Mazumder, Alexander Webb, Wladyslaw Altermann), Elsevier
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2409.13105 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2409.13105v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.13105
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From: Colin Goldblatt
[v1] Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:12:06 UTC (366 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13105

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