Canfield, Donald E.,
Oxygen : a four billion year history / Donald Eugene Canfield. - 1 online resource - Science essentials . - Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)) .
Includes bibliographical references.
What is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: biological evidence -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: geological evidence -- The great oxidation -- Earth's Middle Ages: what came after the GOE -- Neoproterozoic oxygen and the rise of animals -- Phanerozoic oxygen -- Epilogue.
"The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Oxygen is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth"--
9781400849888 1400849888
11373423
22573/ctt4cfbfm JSTOR 83442EEA-28DF-45EA-B865-EB1D53218F36 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 9452335 IEEE
Oxygen.
Oxygen
Oxyg�ene.
oxygen.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Meteorology & Climatology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geography.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geology.
Oxygen.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QD181.O1 / .C36 2014eb
551.51/12
Oxygen : a four billion year history / Donald Eugene Canfield. - 1 online resource - Science essentials . - Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)) .
Includes bibliographical references.
What is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: biological evidence -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: geological evidence -- The great oxidation -- Earth's Middle Ages: what came after the GOE -- Neoproterozoic oxygen and the rise of animals -- Phanerozoic oxygen -- Epilogue.
"The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Oxygen is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth"--
9781400849888 1400849888
11373423
22573/ctt4cfbfm JSTOR 83442EEA-28DF-45EA-B865-EB1D53218F36 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 9452335 IEEE
Oxygen.
Oxygen
Oxyg�ene.
oxygen.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Meteorology & Climatology.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geography.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geology.
Oxygen.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QD181.O1 / .C36 2014eb
551.51/12