Earth's carbon deficit caused by early loss through irreversible sublimation — mentioned by JProthero

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 05:40:23 GMT

This doesn't seem to have been firmly established, but as far as I can tell it's currently thought to be related to how carbon in the solar system's protoplanetary disk behaved when it was vaporized after fusion began in the sun. The question was studied in this paper published in 2021 [1], which is discussed in this article [2]. The authors of the paper suggest that the material that formed the Earth was depleted of carbon early in the solar system's history due to solar activity, and that most of the carbon now on Earth was delivered to the planet later on directly from the interstellar…

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Earth's carbon deficit caused by early loss through irreversible sublimation — mentioned by JProthero