Great Oxidation Event
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title:
Great Oxidation Event
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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 a time interval during the Earth's Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere and shallow seas first experienced a rise in the concentration of free oxygen. This began approximately 2.460–2.426 Ga (billion years) ago during the Siderian period and ended approximately 2.060 Ga ago during the Rhyacian. Geological, isotopic and chemical evid
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Paleoproterozoic surge in atmospheric oxygen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
date created:
2005-11-29T01:28:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:28:22Z
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