Rapid oxygenation of Earths atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago
Molecular oxygen (O[subscript 2]) is, and has been, a primary driver of biological evolution and shapes the contemporary landscape of Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Although “whiffs” of oxygen have been documented in the Archean atmosphere, substantial O2 did not accumulate irreversibly until the Ea...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016
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