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A 2-Billion-Year-Old Clue Challenges a Popular Earth Science Theory
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- A key geological clue to a global disruption in Earth’s ancient carbon cycle may have a more local origin
- 5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest chemical transformation known from its surface history as oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere
- That shift ultimately helped create conditions for complex organisms such as [
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A key geological clue to a global disruption in Earth’s ancient carbon cycle may have a more local origin. Between roughly 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest chemical transformation known from its surface history as oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere. That shift ultimately helped create conditions for complex organisms such as [...]
