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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canfield, Donald E., author.

Series:

aScience essentials (Princeton, N.J.)

Science Essentials ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oxygen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

2013.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-16836-9

1-4008-4988-8

OCLC:

865006519