Pruebas de isótopos triples de oxígeno para una productividad primaria limitada a mediados del Proterozoico

Peter W Crockford1,2,3, Justin A Hayles4,5, Huiming Bao5,6

  • 1McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. peter.crockford@mail.mcgill.ca.

Nature
|July 20, 2018
PubMed
Resumen

La evidencia de sulfatos de hace 1.400 millones de años revela una biosfera global menos productiva durante el eón Proterozoico. Las mediciones de isótopos triples de oxígeno (delta 17O) indican una atmósfera antigua distinta, que afecta nuestra comprensión de la Tierra temprana

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