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15 Coupled Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere and Biosphere

academic chapter

A Low-Temperature Thermodynamic Model for the Na-K-Ca-Mg-Cl System Incorporating New Experimental Heat Capacities in KCl, MgCl 2 , and CaCl 2 Solutions

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

A Micro-Meteorological mission for global network science on Mars: rationale and measurement requirements

scientific article published in November 1996

A carbonate-rich lake solution to the phosphate problem of the origin of life

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

A chemical model for evaporites on early Mars: Possible sedimentary tracers of the early climate and implications for exploration

scientific article published in July 1999

A coupled carbon-silicon cycle model over Earth history: Reverse weathering as a possible explanation of a warm mid-Proterozoic climate

scientific article published in May 2020

A perchlorate brine lubricated deformable bed facilitating flow of the north polar cap of Mars: Possible mechanism for water table recharging

scholarly article

A two-tiered approach to assessing the habitability of exoplanets

scientific article

A warm or a cold early Earth? New insights from a 3-D climate-carbon model

scientific article published in September 2017

Abundant Atmospheric Methane from Volcanism on Terrestrial Planets Is Unlikely and Strengthens the Case for Methane as a Biosignature

scholarly article

Abundant phosphorus expected for possible life in Enceladus's ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

scientific article

An analytic radiative-convective model for planetary atmospheres ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Anaerobic methanotrophy and the rise of atmospheric oxygen.

scientific article published in July 2007

Analysis of mass dependent and mass independent selenium isotope variability in black shales ⬇️

article

Anoxic atmospheres on Mars driven by volcanism: Implications for past environments and life

scientific article published in July 2017

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

Atmospheric CO2 levels from 2.7 billion years ago inferred from micrometeorite oxidation

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds

scientific article published in January 2017

Atmospheric Evolution, Mars

Atmospheric hydrogen peroxide and Eoarchean iron formations

article

Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

BOULDER-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AS INDICATORS FOR DEPOSITION PROCESSES ON EARTH AND MARS

scientific article published in 2017

Biogenic Methane, Hydrogen Escape, and the Irreversible Oxidation of Early Earth

scientific article

Biogeochemical explanations for the world’s most phosphate-rich lake, an origin-of-life analog

scientific article published on 9 January 2024

Carbon cycle inverse modeling suggests large changes in fractional organic burial are consistent with the carbon isotope record and may have contributed to the rise of oxygen

scientific article published on 25 March 2021

Carbonate-silicate cycle predictions of Earth-like planetary climates and testing the habitable zone concept

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Chemical Fractionation Modeling of Plumes Indicates a Gas-rich, Moderately Alkaline Enceladus Ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Comment on "A hydrogen-rich early Earth atmosphere"

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Constraining climate sensitivity and continental versus seafloor weathering using an inverse geological carbon cycle model

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Constraints on hydrogen levels in the Archean atmosphere based on detrital magnetite

scientific article published in October 2019

Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land

Conway B. Leovy (1933-2011)

scientific article published on 18 October 2011

Creation and Evolution of Impact-generated Reduced Atmospheres of Early Earth

scholarly article

Deep Space 2: The Mars Microprobe Mission

scientific article published in November 1999

Deep Space 2: The Mars Microprobe Mission

Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Discovery of natural perchlorate in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and its global implications

scientific article

Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life.

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Dune Casts Preserved by Partial Burial: The First Identification of Ghost Dune Pits on Mars

Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels

article by Sanjoy M. Som et al published 9 May 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Effect of Concentration, Cooling, and Warming Rates on Glass Transition Temperatures for NaClO, Ca(ClO), and Mg(ClO) Brines with Relevance to Mars and Other Cold Bodies

scientific article published on 20 July 2023

Effects of pressure on aqueous chemical equilibria at subzero temperatures with applications to Europa

scientific article published in January 2005

Eolianite Grain Size Distributions as a Proxy for Large Changes in Planetary Atmospheric Density

scholarly article

Erratum: “Rocky Worlds Limited to ∼1.8 Earth Radii by Atmospheric Escape during a Star's Extreme UV Saturation” (2017, ApJ, 845, 130)

scientific article published on 7 May 2020

Evolution of a Habitable Planet

scientific article published in September 2003

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations.

scientific article

Fast and precise boron isotopic analysis of carbonates and seawater using Nu Plasma II multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and a simple sample introduction system

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Favorable Environments for the Formation of Ferrocyanide, a Potentially Critical Reagent for Origins of Life

scholarly article

Geochemical Consequences of Widespread Clay Mineral Formation in Mars’ Ancient Crust

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Geochemical Consequences of Widespread Clay Mineral Formation in Mars’ Ancient Crust

scientific article published in 2012

Geochemistry of Carbonates on Mars: Implications for Climate History and Nature of Aqueous Environments

scientific article (publication date: 25 October 2012)

Geochemistry of Carbonates on Mars: Implications for Climate History and Nature of Aqueous Environments

scientific article published in 2012

Growth of Prebiotically Plausible Fatty Acid Vesicles Proceeds in the Presence of Prebiotic Amino Acids, Dipeptides, Sugars, and Nucleic Acid Components

scientific article published on 13 December 2022

H2O at the Phoenix landing site.

scientific article

Habitability Models for Astrobiology ⬇️

journal paper

Habitability of the Phoenix landing site

scholarly article

High Organic Burial Efficiency Is Required to Explain Mass Balance in Earth's Early Carbon Cycle

scientific article published in February 2021

High-sensitivity silicon capacitive sensors for measuring medium-vacuum gas pressures

scientific article published in January 1998

How Earth's atmosphere evolved to an oxic state: A status report

scientific article published in August 2005

Inferring chemical disequilibrium biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-like exoplanets

scientific article published on 22 January 2024

Is there methane on Mars?

scientific article (publication date: April 2011)

Key science questions from the second conference on early Mars: geologic, hydrologic, and climatic evolution and the implications for life

scientific article published on December 2005

Mantle data imply a decline of oxidizable volcanic gases could have triggered the Great Oxidation

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Mars Atmosphere

scientific article published in 2014

Mars Atmosphere: History and Surface Interactions

scientific article published in 2007

Mars: ancient fingerprints in the clay

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2007)

Mars: twin studies on Mars

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Meteorological measurement on the surface of Mars

doctoral thesis by David C. Catling

Modeling aqueous ferrous iron chemistry at low temperatures with application to Mars

scientific article published in November 2003

Modeling ferrous–ferric iron chemistry with application to martian surface geochemistry

scientific article published in January 2008

Modeling gas hydrate equilibria in electrolyte solutions

scientific article published in September 2006

Modeling salt precipitation from brines on Mars: Evaporation versus freezing origin for soil salts

scientific article published in April 2015

Moon-Mars: The elephant in the attic

scientific article published in 2005

Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life

scientific article published in March 2024

On Detecting Biospheres from Chemical Thermodynamic Disequilibrium in Planetary Atmospheres

scientific article

On Earth, as it is on Mars?

scientific article published in Nature

Oxidant enhancement in martian dust devils and storms: implications for life and habitability.

scientific article published on June 2006

Oxidant enhancement in martian dust devils and storms: storm electric fields and electron dissociative attachment

scientific article published on June 2006

Oxygen and life in the Precambrian

Oxygenation of the Earth’s Atmosphere

scientific article published in 2015

Oxygenation of the Earth’s Atmosphere

scientific article published in 2014

Oxygenation of the Earth’s Atmosphere

scientific article published in 2011

Packaging a piezoresistive pressure sensor to measure low absolute pressures over a wide sub-zero temperature range

scientific article published in May 2000

Photochemical and climate consequences of sulfur outgassing on early Mars

scholarly article

Photochemical instability of the ancient Martian atmosphere

scientific article published on 6 November 2008

Plausible Sources of Membrane-Forming Fatty Acids on the Early Earth: A Review of the Literature and an Estimation of Amounts

scientific article published on 19 January 2023

Possible physical and thermodynamical evidence for liquid water at the Phoenix landing site

scholarly article

Potential aeolian deposition of intra-crater layering: A case study of Henry crater, Mars

scientific article published on 6 June 2019

Prebiotic Protocell Membranes Retain Encapsulated Contents during Flocculation, and Phospholipids Preserve Encapsulation during Dehydration

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Prebiotic Vesicles Retain Solutes and Grow by Micelle Addition after Brief Cooling below the Membrane Melting Temperature

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Probable Cold and Alkaline Surface Environment of the Hadean Earth Caused by Impact Ejecta Weathering

scientific article published in January 2020

Quantitative High‐Resolution Reexamination of a Hypothesized Ocean Shoreline in Cydonia Mensae on Mars

scientific article published in February 2019

Quantitative discrimination between geological materials with variable density contrast by high resolution X-ray computed tomography: An example using amygdule size-distribution in ancient lava flows

scholarly article by Sanjoy M. Som et al published April 2013 in Computers and Geosciences

Rapid timescale for an oxic transition during the Great Oxidation Event and the instability of low atmospheric O

scientific article published on 13 September 2022

Regolith Inhibits Salt and Ice Crystallization in Mg(ClO4)2 Brine, Implying More Persistent and Potentially Habitable Brines on Mars

scholarly article

Rocky worlds limited to ~1.8 Earth radii by atmospheric escape during a Star's extreme UV saturation

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere ⬇️

scientific article

Soluble sulfate in the martian soil at the Phoenix landing site

scholarly article

Stabilization of Prebiotic Vesicles by Peptides Depends on Sequence and Chirality: A Mechanism for Selection of Protocell-Associated Peptides

scientific article published on 17 April 2024

Stabilization of prebiotic vesicles by peptides depends on sequence and chirality

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Statistical analysis of Curiosity data shows no evidence for a strong seasonal cycle of martian methane

scientific article published in January 2020

Strange messenger: A new history of hydrogen on Earth, as told by Xenon

scientific article published in January 2019

Stratospheric Gas‐Phase Production Alone Cannot Explain Observations of Atmospheric Perchlorate on Earth

scientific article published on 3 May 2023

Temperature, pressure, and wind instrumentation in the Phoenix meteorological package

scientific article published on 26 July 2008

The Archean atmosphere

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

The Exo-Life Finder (ELF) telescope: New strategies for direct detection of exoplanet biosignatures and technosignatures

scientific article published in October 2018

The Peak Absorbance Wavelength of Photosynthetic Pigments Around Other Stars From Spectral Optimization

scientific article published on 8 July 2021

The Productivity of Oxygenic Photosynthesis around Cool, M Dwarf Stars

scientific article published on 5 June 2018

The Rare Earth Element Distribution in Marine Carbonates as a Potential Proxy for Seawater pH on Early Earth

scientific article published on 12 June 2024

The formation of sulfate, nitrate and perchlorate salts in the martian atmosphere

scholarly article

The nature of coarse-grained crystalline hematite and its implications for the early environment of Mars

scientific article

The planetary air leak

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

The response of Phanerozoic surface temperature to variations in atmospheric oxygen concentration

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

The rise of oxygen and the hydrogen hourglass

scientific article published in December 2013

Three-stage formation of cap carbonates after Marinoan snowball glaciation consistent with depositional timescales and geochemistry

scientific article published on 15 August 2024

Timing and Likelihood of the Origin of Life Derived from Post-Impact Highly Reducing Atmospheres

scientific article published in September 2024

Waiting for O<sub>2</sub>

scientific article published in 2014

When is Chemical Disequilibrium in Earth-like Planetary Atmospheres a Biosignature versus an Anti-biosignature? Disequilibria from Dead to Living Worlds

scientific article published on 6 April 2020

Where are Mars' Hypothesized Ocean Shorelines? Large Lateral and Topographic Offsets Between Different Versions of Paleoshoreline Maps

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Where are Mars' Hypothesized Ocean Shorelines? Large Lateral and Topographic Offsets Between Different Versions of Paleoshoreline Maps

preprint article published on 7 April 2021

Where are Mars’ Hypothesized Ocean Shorelines? Large Lateral and Topographic Offsets Between Different Versions of Paleoshoreline Maps

scientific article published in May 2021

Why O2 is required by complex life on habitable planets and the concept of planetary "oxygenation time"

scientific article

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