Precambrian Slowdown in Earth’s Rotation Could Have Affected the Oxygen Content of the Atmosphere

[Oxytropidoceras]

A Slowdown in Earth’s Rotation Could Have

Affected the Oxygen Content of the Atmosphere

Max Planck Institute, August 2, 2021

 

The open access paper is:

 

Klatt, J.M., Chennu, A., Arbic, B.K. et al., 2021

Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and

oxygenation. 2 August 2021, Nature Geoscience.

DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00784-3

 

A fascinating talk about variations in tides and

non-uniform rates of change in Earth's rotation is:

 

A journey through tides in Earth's History

Mattias Green, Seds Online, Oct 22, 2000

 

and

 

Blackledge, B.W., Green, J.A.M., Barnes, R. 

and Way, M.J., 2020. Tides on Other Earths: 

Implications for Exoplanet and Palaeo‐Tidal 

Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 

47(12), p.e2019GL085746.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.