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New Ideas for the Origin of Atmospheric Oxygen
December 16, 2011 | Penn State Live

“The appearance of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project.” Quoted from the Penn State press release.


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