This chapter reviews the '...greatest pollution event in Earth's history...' (Lovelock): the transition of the ocean/atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxidising one, which would have been poisonous to most extant organisms (obligate anaerobes). The potential of the FAR - DEEP sample record to elucidate this critical period in Earth's history is explored.
Attributed to:
The Archaean-Proterozoic Transition: Constraining the Emergence of the Aerobic Earth System
funded by
NERC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project: Volume 3 (2012)
Page Reference: 1517 to 1536
ISBN: 978-3-642-29669-7