No Laughing Matter: Nitrous Oxide Production by Chemodenitrification in the Ferruginous Proterozoic Ocean
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FERRUGINOUS PROTEROZOIC OCEAN. C. L. Stanton, C. T. Reinhard, J. F. Kasting, T. W. Lyons, J. B. Glass*, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, *Correspondence to [email protected]
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