Oxygen : : A Four Billion Year History / / Donald E. Canfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Canfield, Donald E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Science Essentials ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 8 color illus. 20 halftones. 35 line illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Chapter 1. What Is It about Planet Earth? --; Chapter 2. Life before Oxygen --; Chapter 3. Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis --; Chapter 4. Cyanobacteria: The Great Liberators --; Chapter 5. What Controls Atmospheric Oxygen Concentrations? --; Chapter 6. The Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen: Biological Evidence --; Chapter 7. The Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen: Geological Evidence --; Chapter 8. The Great Oxidation --; Chapter 9. Earth's Middle Ages: What Came after the GOE --; Chapter 10. Neoproterozoic Oxygen and The Rise of Animals --; Chapter 11. Phanerozoic Oxygen --; Chapter 12. Epilogue --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400849888; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400849888
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Donald E. Canfield.

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? Donald Canfield-one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans-covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. Canfield guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who have made key discoveries in the field. Showing how Earth's atmosphere developed over time, Oxygen takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of the oxygenation of our planet.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.