Observation of wavelength‐sensitive mass‐independent sulfur isotope effects during SO2 photolysis: Implications for the early atmosphere

By J. Farquhar, J. Savarino, S. Airieau, M. Thiemens. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Ecology

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. L. Kaltenegger
2. Wesley A. Traub
3. K. Jucks
4. J. Kasting
5. Sara Seager
6. Remi Soummer

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Citations in the corpus

• Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes in Archean Sediments: Strong Evidence for an Anoxic Archean Atmosphere (2002, unknown): “The calculations described here provide strong support for the hypothesis that atmospheric O 2 levels increased dramatically around 2.3 Ga.”
• The antiquity of microbial sulfate reduction (2004, background): “Recent isotopic measurements of the stable isotopes d33S and d36S from Precambrian sulfides and sulfates show mass-independent fractionation trends, indicating that gas-phase atmospheric reactions also played an important role in the Archean sulfur cycle (Farquhar et al., 2000, 2001).”
• Spectral Evolution of an Earth-like Planet (2006, background): “From a variety of geological evidence, we know that significant concentrations of free O2 began to appear in the atmosphere (see e.g Cloud 1972; Farquhar et al. 2000, 2001; Kasting 2002; Pavlov et al. 2001; Ono et al. 2003).”
• Biological activity and the Earth's surface evolution: Insights from carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and iron stable isotopes in the rock record (2009, background): “MIF-S are thought to be produced and preserved in the sediments only when atmospheric partial pressure of O2 is lower than 10-5 PAL, thus preventing both oxygen UV shielding effect and rehomogenization of atmospheric sulfur species through oxidation [38,69,98].”
• Evolution of a habitable planet (2003, background): “The first is the discovery by Farquhar, Bao & Thiemans (2000) and Farquhar et al. (2001) of mass-independently fractionated sulfur isotopes in Archean rocks.”