Iron-silica particles in ancient seawater helped cyanobacteria oxygenate Earth's oceans billions of years ago

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 10:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere was thanks, in part, to iron and silica particles in ancient seawater, according to a new study by geomicrobiologists at the University of Alberta. But these results solve only part of this ancient mystery.

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