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Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

Molecular oxygen (O(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 O(2) did not accumulate irreversibly until the Early Pale...

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Autores principales: Luo, Genming, Ono, Shuhei, Beukes, Nicolas J., Wang, David T., Xie, Shucheng, Summons, Roger E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27386544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600134