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What the geologic record reveals about how oceans were oxygenated 2.3 billion years ago - EurekAlert


New research led by a University of Utah geochemist uses thallium isotopes to track the rise and fall of free oxygen on Earth between 2.5 and 2.2 billion years ago, the process that enabled life as we know it.

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