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A new theory about the Great Oxidation Event helps explain the appearance of significant concentrations of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago.

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A new theory about the Great Oxidation Event helps explain the appearance of significant concentrations of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago.

  Hello and welcome to my blog on “deep carbon science” –– a fascinating research field in the geosciences. My history of deep carbon science gives lively accounts of 150 scientists who contributed to the development of this new field over a period of four centuries. I write history by telling stories about interesting people. Here’s an extract from my account of the research of the great chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794). At the end of the eighteenth century, the qu...