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New references for rise of O2

Posted by pjanhune on 20 Mar 2007 at 07:55 GMT

high level of atmospheric O2
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000214#article1.body1.sec2.p6

For new estimates of the schedule of O2 rising, see Canfield et al., Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life, Science 315, 92-95, 2007, and Fike et al., Oxidation of the Ediacaran ocean, Nature 444, 744-747, 2006.