Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago

Monday, September 24, 2012 - 09:03 in Earth & Climate

New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and molybdenum into the oceans.

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