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The rise of oxygen in Earth's early ocean and atmosphere
Description: For decades geochemists have been refining the story of how and when early life forms began to pump oxygen into the oceans and atmosphere and what then happened to it. But as this Review explains, there is still much detail to be filled in. Timothy Lyons et al. describe how recent work has made it possible to say with increasing confidence when and why the oxidation state of the ocean and atmosphere varied through time. [Source: Nature Geoscience]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13068
Availability: Summary
Source: Nature Geoscience
Publish Date: 3/10/2014
Reading Level: Expert
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