Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Posted by on December 30, 2016 10:54 pm
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For the development of animals, nothing — with the exception of DNA — may be more important than oxygen in the atmosphere. A study now links the rise in oxygen to a rapid increase in the burial of sediment containing large amounts of carbon-rich organic matter.

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