A persistently low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s middle age

Constraining the rise in atmospheric oxygen through the early Earth is important to understand the evolution of complex life. Here, the authors find that a major rise in atmospheric oxygen level occurred after the Great Oxidation Event, followed by pO2 within 1% of present atmospheric level through...

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Main Authors: Xiao-Ming Liu, Linda C. Kah, Andrew H. Knoll, Huan Cui, Chao Wang, Andrey Bekker, Robert M. Hazen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20484-7