Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (223 pages))
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781400849888
Series Statement:
Science essentials
Content:
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
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
9780691145020
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Canfield, Donald, 1957 - Oxygen Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2014 9780691145020
Language:
English
Subjects:
Chemistry/Pharmacy
,
Geography
,
General works
Keywords:
Sauerstoff
;
Atmosphäre
;
Evolution
;
Sauerstofftransport
;
Paläoklima
;
Sauerstoff
;
Leben
;
Evolution
;
Molekularbiologie
;
Biochemie
;
Stoffwechsel
;
Sauerstoff
;
Biogeochemie
;
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