It might be similar to the atmosphere on Venus, where the oxygen has combined with surface rocks and as carbon dioxide. On Earth, plants remove carbon dioxide and increase the level of free oxygen that supports animal life. This atmosphere also reduces ultraviolet radiation, which also affects the level of gases.
Nitrogen
Creation of what, the earth? There was no atmosphere at creation. No air. The oxygen we breath today was created by living plants that populated the earth long before we evolved
You have that the wrong way round, LIVING things have changed Earth's atmosphere to make it suitable for them. When Earth first came into being, the atmosphere was NOT like it is now, it could not sustain the life that exists today. Over Geological time tiny bacterial organisms generated the Oxygen that we have in our air today, and altered the whole environment of the planed in doing so. Thus the driving factor is LIFE not the atmosphere.
why do pieces of earths earliest crust not exist today
Many people today assume mistakenly that the Earth is so big that we humans cannot possibly have any major impact on the way our planet's ecological system operates.
Almost no oxygen, lots of CO2, still mostly nitrogen.
Today the Earth's atmosphere is being destroyed by all the pollution by cars and power plants.
The earths atmosphere has significantly altered over the years. The process of the earth's atmosphere was recognized and evolved 2.7 billion years ago, forming the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere that exists today. This change enabled the formation and beginning of the ozone layer (which along with magnetic fields) block solar radiation.
The earths atmosphere has significantly altered over the years. The process of the earth's atmosphere was recognized and evolved 2.7 billion years ago, forming the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere that exists today. This change enabled the formation and beginning of the ozone layer (which along with magnetic fields) block solar radiation.
The original atmosphere of earth contained primarily ammonia and methane, very similar to the atmosphere on Venus and Jupiter today.
Almost no oxygen, lots of CO2, still mostly nitrogen.
The earths atmosphere has significantly altered over the years. The process of the earth's atmosphere was recognized and evolved 2.7 billion years ago, forming the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere that exists today. This change enabled the formation and beginning of the ozone layer (which along with magnetic fields) block solar radiation.
Nitrogen
biogeochemistry is used by earths atmosphere
Creation of what, the earth? There was no atmosphere at creation. No air. The oxygen we breath today was created by living plants that populated the earth long before we evolved
You have that the wrong way round, LIVING things have changed Earth's atmosphere to make it suitable for them. When Earth first came into being, the atmosphere was NOT like it is now, it could not sustain the life that exists today. Over Geological time tiny bacterial organisms generated the Oxygen that we have in our air today, and altered the whole environment of the planed in doing so. Thus the driving factor is LIFE not the atmosphere.
As opposed to today's atmosphere, the Earth's early atmosphere would have been quite impossible for human life to thrive in. Today the atmosphere consists primarily of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide, but early Earth's first atmosphere was probably made of Hydrogen and Helium.