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Climatic and Biogeochemical Effects of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst
Adrian L. Melott, Brian C. Thomas, Daniel P. Hogan +2
It is likely that one or more gamma-ray bursts within our galaxy have strongly irradiated the Earth in the last Gy. This produces significant atmospheric ionization and dissociatio…
astro-ph2004
Ozone Abundance in a Nitrogen-Carbon Dioxide Dominated Terrestrial Paleoatmosphere
B. C. Thomas, A. L. Melott, L. D. Martin +1
We compute the ozone distribution for a model terrestrial paleoatmosphere in which the present oxygen abundance is largely replaced by carbon dioxide, which we argue is a reasonabl…