TY  - BOOK
AU  - Canfield,Donald E.
TI  - Oxygen: a four billion year history 
T2  - Science essentials
SN  - 9780691145020
AV  - QD181.O1 .C36 2014
U1  - 551.51/12 23
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press, [2014]
KW  - Oxygen
KW  - SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
KW  - SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -