Atmosphere-Ocean-Crust Interactions in Earth's Early Life

For as long as infalling planetesimals contained some hydrous and carbonate minerals, Earth¡¦s proto-atmosphere had to be formed during accretion and was composed primarily of CO2. H2O was released and incorporated into the proto-atmosphere to form H2O-CO2 supercritical fluid after accretion when th...

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Main Authors: Lin-gun Liu, Xiaoli Zhao, Heping Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Chinese Geoscience Union 2013-01-01
Series:Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Online Access: http://tao.cgu.org.tw/images/attachments/v243p467.pdf