News tagged with great oxidation event

Debut of chromium signatures clocks great oxidation event

Banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara have aided in dating the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen at 2.48 billion years ago.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Oxygen-free early oceans likely delayed rise of life on planet

Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and, surprisingly, contained abundant hydrogen sulfide ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oxygen production may have begun 270 million years earlier

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria that produce oxygen may have evolved hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study into ancient rock formations in Western Australia suggests.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event

In "The Sign of the Four" Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, "with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash." He finds ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




Search results for great oxidation event


Winds of change for pollution sensing

(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 4 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Geological record shows air up there came from below

(Phys.org) -- The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms

(Phys.org) -- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Solution to ancient rock puzzle posited

A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers identify molecular 'culprit' in rise of planetary oxygen

A turning point in the history of life occurred 2 to 3 billion years ago with the unprecedented appearance and dramatic rise of molecular oxygen. Now researchers report they have identified an enzyme that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought

The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New evidence found for the oldest oxygen-breathing life on land

New University of Alberta research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously thought.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Breathing new life into Earth: New research shows evidence of early oxygen on our planet

Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare — if not complet ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold case: Siberian hot springs reveal ancient ecology (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth's early atmosphere, according to a theory that UChicago researcher Albert ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fruit flies on meth: Study explores whole-body effects of toxic drug

A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


List of search results for great oxidation event