Did a massive asteroid turn Earth into a boiling 'Spring' 3.3 billion years ago? Daily Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3096111/Did-massive-asteroid-turn-Earth-boiling-SPRING-3-3bn-years-ago-Impact-vapourised-planet-s-oceans.html
“Scientists found evidence for huge asteroid impacts up to 3.3 billion years ago. These may have superheated the atmosphere and raised the temperature and after losing 100 m of water, Earth would have resembled a 'hot spring.” Asteroids boiled young Earth’s oceans. High temperatures shaped life’s early evolution by thomas summers https://student.societyforscience.org/article/asteroids-boiled-young-earth’s-oceans The paper is: Lowe, D. R., and G. R. Byerly, 2015, Geologic record of partial ocean evaporation triggered by giant asteroid impacts, 3.29–3.23 billion years ago. Geology. First published online May 7, 2015, doi: 10.1130/G36665.1 http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/05/07/G36665.1.abstract Dr. Donald Lowe’s Publications https://profiles.stanford.edu/donald-lowe?tab=publications Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
