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Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Geology Page - December 31, 2016

Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence

The ups and downs of early atmospheric oxygen

Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, study finds

Seashells provide million-year-old weather report

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

Geology Page - January 19, 2018

A 3D computer model of the asthenosphere by Rice University geophysicists finds that the convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the asthenosphere to move even faster than the tectonic plates riding atop it.

Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

Geology Page - May 29, 2018

The Pinnacles of Gunung Mulu in Borneo

New source of global nitrogen discovered

Geology Page - April 6, 2018

Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - May 12, 2016

Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence

Geology Page - January 15, 2015

New study suggests more and longer atmospheric stagnation events due to...

Geology Page - June 23, 2014

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 16, 2016

Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

Geology Page - March 1, 2017

Early Earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 10, 2016

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2016

Amber provides new insights into the evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere

Geology Page - November 18, 2013

Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed

Geology Page - August 2, 2016

Rethinking early atmospheric oxygen

Geology Page - May 4, 2013

Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

Geology Page - October 10, 2016

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Losing air:New study finds a barrage of small impacts likely erased...

Geology Page - December 3, 2014

The ups and downs of early atmospheric oxygen

Geology Page - February 20, 2014

Ocean.

Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

Geology Page - January 25, 2018

Natural magnesite crystal (4 microns wide).

Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2018

Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere four billion years ago

Geology Page - July 5, 2013

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