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Oxygen : a four billion year history / Donald Eugene Canfield.

By: Canfield, Donald E [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)): Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400849888; 1400849888.Subject(s): 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 | OxygenGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: OxygenDDC classification: 551.51/12 Other classification: SCI019000 | SCI020000 | SCI042000 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.

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