Possible Impact of a Primordial Oil Slick on Atmospheric and Chemical Evolution
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 32 (3) , 247-253
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1016577923630
Abstract
Low molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons from various sources, could have formed an oil layer covering the primeval ocean (present already 4.0–4.4 × 109yr ago), preventing water from evaporating...Keywords
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