Palaeoclimatology: Archaean atmosphere and climate.

Kasting, James F · Nature · 2004

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Abstract

Ohmoto et al. argue that carbon dioxide was abundant in the late Archaean and early Proterozoic atmosphere and that methane was probably scarce, based on a reanalysis of the occurrence of siderite, FeCO3, in ancient rocks. Here I consider several factors that may undermine their conclusions.

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