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Manicouagan impact structure, Manicouagan RCM, Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada : A meteorite impact crater. The structure was created 214 (±1) million years ago, in the Late Triassic, by the impact of a meteorite 5 km in diameter. Wikipedia gives the width as 100 km, but ...
As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work.
Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, said: “The initial amount of rion in Earth’s rocks is “set” by the conditions of planetary accretion, during which the Earth’s metallic core segregated from its rocky mantle. “Too little iron in the rocky portion of the planet, like […]
During the development of life on planet Earth over billions of years, iron deficiency may have stimulated evolution.
Researchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth – which also may hint at the