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Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth’s atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic clues… Read More »Volcanic activity and changes in Earth’s mantle were key to rise of atmospheric oxygen
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