Volcanic activity billions of years ago set the stage for Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere, research suggests
It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...
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Scientists unravel the mystery of Earth’s first oxygen surge—and it’s volcanic
Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events ...
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Are volcanoes behind the oxygen we breathe?
It is widely believed that Earth’s atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...
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Earth's Earliest Climate
When we discuss climate change today, we are mostly concerned with how such change will impact our environment and our lives. We look to the past to help understand climate cycles and how our ...
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How Ancient Volcanoes Helped Create the Air We Breathe Today
Their findings suggest that volcanic activity helped create the perfect conditions for the oxygen-rich atmosphere needed to sustain all life on our planet. Focusing on the late Archean eon (3 billion ...
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Climate puzzle over origins of life on Earth
“However, ancient fossil soils – the best indicators of ancient carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – suggest only modest levels during the Archean. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases were also ...
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Volcanic Activity May Have Primed a Young Earth for Oxygen
Researchers from the University of Tokyo provide a mechanism to explain precursor oxygenation events “whiffs,” which may have ...