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Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation

Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation

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Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation

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Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation

Publisher

United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2018-04, Vol.360 (6386), p.320-323

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English

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United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

Two billion years ago, marine sulfate concentrations were around one-third as high as modern ones, constituting an oxidizing capacity equivalent to more than 20% of that of the modern ocean-atmosphere system. Blättler
et al.
found this by analyzing a remarkable evaporite succession more than 1 billion years older than the oldest comparable de...

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Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation

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TN_cdi_cristin_nora_10037_14771

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_cristin_nora_10037_14771

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ISSN

0036-8075,1095-9203

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.aar2687

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