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Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

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  • Sean A. Crowe

    (Institute of Biology, and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark
    Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Life Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada.)

  • Lasse N. Døssing

    (Institute of Biology, and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark
    and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark)

  • Nicolas J. Beukes

    (University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa)

  • Michael Bau

    (Earth and Space Sciences Program, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen 28759, Germany)

  • Stephanus J. Kruger

    (University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa)

  • Robert Frei

    (and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark)

  • Donald E. Canfield

    (Institute of Biology, and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark)

Abstract

The distribution of chromium isotopes and redox-sensitive metals in the Nsuze palaeosol and in the Ijzermyn iron formation from the Pongola Supergroup, in South Africa, suggests that there were appreciable levels of atmospheric oxygen about three billion years ago, some 300–400 million years earlier than previous indications for Earth surface oxygenation.

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  • Sean A. Crowe & Lasse N. Døssing & Nicolas J. Beukes & Michael Bau & Stephanus J. Kruger & Robert Frei & Donald E. Canfield, 2013. "Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago," Nature, Nature, vol. 501(7468), pages 535-538, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:501:y:2013:i:7468:d:10.1038_nature12426
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12426
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    1. Hongping He & Xiao Wu & Haiyang Xian & Jianxi Zhu & Yiping Yang & Ying Lv & Yiliang Li & Kurt O. Konhauser, 2021. "An abiotic source of Archean hydrogen peroxide and oxygen that pre-dates oxygenic photosynthesis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-9, December.
    2. James Andrew M. Leong & Tucker Ely & Everett L. Shock, 2021. "Decreasing extents of Archean serpentinization contributed to the rise of an oxidized atmosphere," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-11, December.
    3. Yuichiro Shimada & Takehiro Suzuki & Takumi Matsubara & Tomomi Kitajima-Ihara & Ryo Nagao & Naoshi Dohmae & Takumi Noguchi, 2022. "Post-translational amino acid conversion in photosystem II as a possible origin of photosynthetic oxygen evolution," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.

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