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Oxygen : a four billion year history / Donald Eugene Canfield.
| Author/creator | Canfield, Donald E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014] |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| Series | Science essentials aScience essentials (Princeton, N.J.) |
| Contents | What is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: biological evidence -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: geological evidence -- The great oxidation -- Earth's Middle Ages: what came after the GOE -- Neoproterozoic oxygen and the rise of animals -- Phanerozoic oxygen -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Oxygen is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Canfield, Donald E. Oxygen : a four billion year history. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014] xv, 196 pages Science essentials 9780691145020 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781400849888 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |