Publication Date:
2014-02-21
Description:
The rapid increase of carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's modern atmosphere is a matter of major concern. But for the atmosphere of roughly two-and-half billion years ago, interest centres on a different gas: free oxygen (O2) spawned by early biological production. The initial increase of O2 in the atmosphere, its delayed build-up in the ocean, its increase to near-modern levels in the sea and air two billion years later, and its cause-and-effect relationship with life are among the most compelling stories in Earth's history.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lyons, Timothy W -- Reinhard, Christopher T -- Planavsky, Noah J -- England -- Nature. 2014 Feb 20;506(7488):307-15. doi: 10.1038/nature13068.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. ; 1] Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA [2] Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA [3] School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA. ; 1] Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA [2] Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24553238" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Atmosphere/*chemistry
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*Earth (Planet)
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*Evolution, Chemical
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History, Ancient
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Life
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Oxygen/analysis/history/*metabolism
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Photosynthesis
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Seawater/*chemistry
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
