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Lightning-Driven Pyrite Oxidation Under Archean Atmosphere Conditions

Lightning-Driven Pyrite Oxidation Under Archean Atmosphere Conditions

On the early Earth — during the Archean eon — the atmosphere contained very little freely available oxygen (O₂). Because of this, many of the chemical weathering processes we see today (which depend on oxygen) would have been far slower or entirely absent. The mineral...