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Decoding Banded Iron Formations
June 18, 2009 | Science News

The banded iron formations are thought to contain twenty times more oxygen than is currently in Earth’s atmosphere – yet these formations were deposited when Earth’s atmosphere was not rich in oxygen. How did this occur?


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