Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia
It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...
Study Finds on MSN5d
Scientists unravel the mystery of Earth’s first oxygen surge—and it’s volcanic
Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events ...
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Massive Volcanic Eruptions May Have Kickstarted Life as We Know It!
For billions of years, Earth’s atmosphere lacked the oxygen necessary to sustain complex life. While scientists have long ...
Volcanic activity billions of years ago set the stage for Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere, research suggests
It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...
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Are volcanoes behind the oxygen we breathe?
It is widely believed that Earth’s atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...
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How Ancient Volcanoes Helped Create the Air We Breathe Today
Their findings suggest that volcanic activity helped create the perfect conditions for the oxygen-rich atmosphere needed to sustain all life on our planet. Focusing on the late Archean eon (3 billion ...
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Volcanic Activity May Have Primed a Young Earth for Oxygen
Researchers from the University of Tokyo provide a mechanism to explain precursor oxygenation events “whiffs,” which may have ...
Nature3y
Earth's Earliest Climate
Despite the stark differences between today’s world and that of the Archean, it is clear that at both times, climate has impacted — and been impacted by — life on Earth. This paper will take ...
Science Daily6d
Are volcanoes behind the oxygen we breathe?
They would have essentially converted the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into an oxygen-rich one, and following that came complex life ... changes during the late Archean eon (3.0-2.5 billion ...