Bibliograph

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Oxygen, a four billion year history, Donald Eugene Canfield

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oxygen

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

853287110

Responsibility statement

Donald Eugene Canfield

Series statement

Science essentials

Sub title

a four billion year history

Summary

"The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Oxygen is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

What is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: biological evidence -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: geological evidence -- The great oxidation -- Earth's Middle Ages: what came after the GOE -- Neoproterozoic oxygen and the rise of animals -- Phanerozoic oxygen -- Epilogue

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