[Rockhounds] A Slowdown in Earth's Rotation Could Have Affected the Oxygen Content of the Atmosphere

[Paul]

Kreigh Tomaszewski posted:

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https://scitechdaily.com/a-slowdown-in-earths-rotation-could-have-affected-the-oxygen-content-of-the-atmosphere/

The open access paper for the above article 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.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00784-3

A fascinating talk about how the magnitude of tides
and the rate of decrease in the Earth's rotation have
likely varied throughout geologic time is:

A journey through tides in Earth's History
Mattias Green, Seds Online, Oct 22, 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6baURJIxqw

( More in Seds Online Webinar Library at
https://sedsonline.com/webinar-library/ )

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), no.e2019GL085746.

Finally, there is:

Tide-dominated and tide-influenced depositional systems
Dr Marcello Gugliotta – University of Bremen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5qMatuyIHA

Yours,

Paul H.