Asteroids Boiled Young Earth’s Oceans. High temperatures shaped life’s early evolution

Asteroids Boiled Young Earth’s Oceans. High temperatures shaped life’s early evolution

Did a massive asteroid turn Earth into a boiling
'Spring' 3.3 billion years ago? Daily Mail Online.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3096111/Did-massive-asteroid-turn-Earth-boiling-SPRING-3-3bn-years-ago-Impact-vapourised-planet-s-oceans.html

“Scientists found evidence for huge asteroid impacts up to
3.3 billion years ago. These may have superheated the
atmosphere and raised the temperature and after losing
100 m of water, Earth would have resembled a 'hot spring.”

Asteroids boiled young Earth’s oceans. High temperatures
shaped life’s early evolution by Thomas Summers
https://student.societyforscience.org/article/asteroids-boiled-young-earth’s-oceans

The paper is:

Lowe, D. R., and G. R. Byerly, 2015, Geologic record of
partial ocean evaporation triggered by giant asteroid
impacts, 3.29–3.23 billion years ago. Geology. First
published online May 7, 2015, doi: 10.1130/G36665.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/05/07/G36665.1.abstract

Dr. Donald Lowe’s Publications
https://profiles.stanford.edu/donald-lowe?tab=publications

Yours,

Paul H.