Marine oxygen production and open water supported an active nitrogen cycle during the Marinoan Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth glaciations were some of the most extreme climate events in Earth history, and are temporally linked to major biogeochemical changes. Here, using geochemical proxies, the authors show that during the Marinoan glaciation, there was likely open water, active oxygen production, and nitro...

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Main Authors: Benjamin W. Johnson, Simon W. Poulton, Colin Goldblatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01453-z