THE EARLY HISTORY OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN: Homage to Robert M. Garrels

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Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005areps..33....1c&link_type=abstract

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 33, p.1-36

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This paper reviews the Precambrian history of atmospheric oxygen, beginning with a brief discussion of the possible nature and magnitude of life before the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. This is followed by a summary of the various lines of evidence constraining oxygen levels through time, resulting in a suggested history of atmospheric oxygen concentrations. Also reviewed are the various processes regulating oxygen concentrations, and several models of Precambrian oxygen evolution are presented. A sparse geologic record, combined with uncertainties as to its interpretation, yields only a fragmentary and imprecise reading of atmospheric oxygen evolution. Nevertheless, oxygen levels have increased through time, but not monotonically, with major and fascinating swings to both lower and higher levels.

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