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    Rauchfuss (2005) compares two theories on the early Earth's atmosphere. One theory argues it was derived from the solar nebula and contained reducing gases like hydrogen and methane. However, Earth likely could not have retained hydrogen and early volcanoes emitted mostly water and carbon dioxide. Joyce (1989) proposes the atmosphere composition depended on whether it formed before or after the iron core. If before, it would have been strongly reducing; if after, it would have been weakly reducing with water, carbon dioxide, and carbon but little methane or hydrogen. This second theory is currently the best accepted model.

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    Rauchfuss (2005) compares two theories on the early Earth's atmosphere. One theory argues it was derived from the solar nebula and contained reducing gases like hydrogen and methane. However, Earth likely could not have retained hydrogen and early volcanoes emitted mostly water and carbon dioxide. Joyce (1989) proposes the atmosphere composition depended on whether it formed before or after the iron core. If before, it would have been strongly reducing; if after, it would have been weakly reducing with water, carbon dioxide, and carbon but little methane or hydrogen. This second theory is currently the best accepted model.

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    Module 8

    Tuesday, December 27, 2022 12:39 PM

    Rauchfuss (2005) has carefully compared two theories on the creation of the early atmosphere.
    According to one, it must have been derived from the solar nebula, as found in the atmosphere
    on Jupiter and Saturn, enriched in the strongly reducing gases (hydrogen, methane, ammonia,
    and water). However, doubts are based on two facts: the small Earth could not have held
    hydrogen for any significant period and the volcanoes-exhalation observed today consists mostly
    of water and CO2. This should also represent the composition of the exhalation of volcanoes on
    early Earth (Quenzel 1987). According to Joyce (1989), the composition of atmo-sphere
    depended on whether the atmosphere was established before or after the creation of the iron-rich
    core: Contact with metallic iron before the nucleation would have resulted in a strongly reducing
    atmosphere with CH4, H 2, H 2O, and CO. After nucleation, the redox state would depend on the
    ratio Fe2þ/Fe3þand probably result in a weak reducing atmosphere with H2O, CO2, and CO and
    almost no CH4 or H2. This is at the moment the best accepted model for the atmosphere of very
    early Earth. (p.28)

    SCIENCE 10 Page 1

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