Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 13:41
in Earth & Climate
Oxygen buried deep underground in minerals may have prompted the churning of Earth’s rocky mantle billions of years ago and helped transform the planet’s early atmosphere, according to a new study. Research by geoscientists at Yale, Arizona State University, and Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany suggests that convection in Earth’s mantle — the slow movement of […]