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.