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    The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, was...
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    Great Oxidation Event roughly 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago during the Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic boundary. Although the end of the Great Oxidation Event...
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    able to increase levels of biodiversity again. Great Oxidation Event Neoproterozoic oxygenation event Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution Holland...
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    The Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event (NOE), also called the Second Great Oxidation Event, was a geologic time interval between around 850 and 540 million...
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    events include a single footprint, an earthquake, a series of volcanic eruptions, the formation of mountains (orogenies), the Great Oxidation Event (GOE)...
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    cyanobacteria. Oxidation of ferrous iron may have been hastened by aerobic iron-oxidizing bacteria, which can increase rates of oxidation by a factor of...
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    fractionation law. The Great Oxidation Event represented a massive transition of global sulfur cycles. Before the Great Oxidation Event, the sulfur cycle was...
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    revealing that sulphur-oxidising bacteria had evolved prior to the Great Oxidation Event. The earliest potential eukaryote fossils come from Neoarchaean...
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    was believed that the ocean becoming fully oxygenated during the Great Oxidation Event (GOE; ~2.46 Gya) was the mechanism that ceased BIF deposition. By...
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    Magnetite is a component of magnetic recording tapes. Great Oxidation Event Iron cycle Iron oxide nanoparticle Limonite List of inorganic pigments Iron(II)...
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    Buick, Roger (28 September 2007). "A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?". Science. 317 (5846): 1903–1906. Bibcode:2007Sci...317.1903A....
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    Cu+ −SOD + O 2 (reduction of copper; oxidation of superoxide) Cu+ −SOD + O− 2 + 2H+ → Cu2+ −SOD + H 2O 2 (oxidation of copper; reduction of superoxide)...
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  • not present until about 2,500 million years ago (Myr). After the Great Oxidation Event, quantities of oxygen produced as a by-product of photosynthesis...
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    immediately removed by various surface reductants), resulting in the Great Oxidation Event and the "rusting of the Earth" during the early Proterozoic, dramatically...
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    during the Siderian and Rhyacian periods in an aerochemical event called the Great Oxidation Event, which brought atmospheric oxygen from near none to up to...
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    biota History of life Francevillian B Formation Franceville basin Great Oxidation Event El Albani, Abderrazak; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Riboulleau...
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    oceans called the Great Oxygenation Event or Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Before the GOE, elements that can be in multiple oxidation states were restricted...
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    has been altering Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago in Africa...
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    examples of algal mats. Algal mats played an important role in the Great Oxidation Event on Earth some 2.3 billion years ago. Algal mats can become a significant...
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  • much later rise of free oxygen in the air. Atmosphere of Earth Great Oxidation Event – Paleoproterozoic surge in atmospheric oxygen Paleoclimatology –...
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    far more extensive mass extinction of microbial life during the Great Oxidation Event (a.k.a. Oxygen Catastrophe) early in the Proterozoic Eon. At the...
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    pre-Cryogenian time scale to reflect important events such as the formation of the Solar System and the Great Oxidation Event, among others, while at the same time...
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  • Anthony E. (eds.), "8.1 The Great Oxidation Event", Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic...
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    to oceans in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic Eons, before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The biogeochemical activity in the hypolimnion has been studied...
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  • Geological records show that oxygen flooded the atmosphere in a Great Oxidation Event (GOE) starting about 2.4 billion years ago, even though bacteria...
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    present, amounts of dissolved oxygen in the water such as during the Great Oxidation Event or snowball earths. The red bands are microcrystalline red chert...
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    Heinrich D. (2002-11-01). "Volcanic gases, black smokers, and the great oxidation event". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66 (21): 3811–3826. Bibcode:2002GeCoA...
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    S2CID 4311084. Holland HD (2002). "Volcanic gases, black smokers, and the great oxidation event". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66 (21): 3811–3826. Bibcode:2002GeCoA...
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  • periods and events in climate history includes some notable climate events known to paleoclimatology. Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as...
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  • accumulation of smaller extinction events over a relatively brief period. The first known mass extinction was the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ago, which...
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