Early Earth's air weighed less than half of today's atmosphere

ENN
May 10, 2016, 8:23 am9 pts
The idea that the young Earth had a thicker atmosphere turns out to be wrong. New research from the University of Washington uses bubbles trapped in 2.7 billion-year-old rocks to show that air at that time exerted at most half the pressure of today’s atmosphere.

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