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Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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HI, I have looked for hours and hours for a graph/image/chart on how the ozone layer was looking at the same time the dinosaurs became extinct. Any help would be much apreciated.
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Re: Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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I very much doubt you will find one either
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I dont know of a single proxy for O
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Re: Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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The title of this thread is actually quite deceiving.
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Re: Could the ozone layer be linked to dinosaur extinction?
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See:
The effect of paleoatmospheric ozone on surface temperature
Joel S. Levine and Robert E. Boughner
Atmospheric Environmental Sciences Division, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23665, USA
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Photochemical calculations indicate that the atmospheric O3 column was maximized when the atmospheric oxygen (O2) level was 10−1 of its present atmospheric level (PAL). For this O2 level, the O3 concentration maximum occurred about 10 km below its present peak. Coupled photochemical and radiative-convective calculations indicate that for this level and distribution, O3 may have increased the globally averaged paleosurface temperature by as much as 4.5°K. A major deficiency in our understanding concerns the exact chronology for the evolution of O2; i.e., according to various scenarios, O2 may have reached 10−1 PAL as early as 2 billion years ago or as late as 400 million years ago.
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