Rice-led study offers new answer to why Earth's atmosphere became oxygenated

Rice-led study offers new answer to why Earth's atmosphere became oxygenated Houston TX (SPX) May 18, 2016 - Earth scientists from Rice University, Yale University and the University of Tokyo are offering a new answer to the long-standing question of how our planet acquired its oxygenated atmosphere. Based on a new model that draws from research in diverse fields including petrology, geodynamics, volcanology and geochemistry, the team's findings were published online this week in Nature Geoscienc ... more

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