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100 1 _aCanfield, Donald E.
245 1 0 _aOxygen :
_ba four billion year history /
_cDonald Eugene Canfield.
264 1 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press, [2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _axv, 196 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aScience essentials
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
505 0 _aWhat 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.
650 0 _aOxygen.
650 7 _aSCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General.
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650 7 _aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology.
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