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About 2.3 Billion Years Ago, a Firehose of Oxygen was Released Into the Atmosphere
Universe Today ^ | Matt WIlliams

Posted on 03/28/2018 7:50:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Billions of years ago... our planet’s primordial atmosphere was toxic to life as we know it, consisting of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and other gases. However, by the Paleoproterozoic Era (2.5–1.6 billion years ago), a dramatic change occurred where oxygen began to be introduced to the atmosphere – known as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE).

[S]cientists were not sure if this event – which was the result of photosynthetic bacteria altering the atmosphere – occurred rapidly or not. ... Based on newly-discovered geological evidence, the team concluded that the introduction of oxygen to our atmosphere was “more like a fire hose” than a trickle.

[P]reserved crystallized salts in Russia that are dated to this period..were extracted from a 1.9 km-deep (1.2 mi) hole in Karelia in northwest Russia...

... Using these samples, Blättler and her team were able to learn things about the composition of the oceans and the atmosphere that existed on Earth around the time of the GOE. For starters, the team determined that they contained a surprisingly large amount of sulfate, which is the result of seawater reacting with oxygen.

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“This is the strongest ever evidence that the ancient seawater from which those minerals precipitated had high sulfate concentrations reaching at least 30 percent of present-day oceanic sulfate as our estimations indicate. This is much higher than previously thought and will require considerable rethinking of the magnitude of oxygenation of Earth’s 2-billion year old atmosphere-ocean system.”

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: carbondioxide; catastrophism; goe; greatoxidationevent; nitrogen; oxygen; paleoproterozoic; primordial; sulfate
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1 posted on 03/28/2018 7:50:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Not my fault.


2 posted on 03/28/2018 7:52:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: BenLurkin

Aliens.


3 posted on 03/28/2018 7:54:37 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: BenLurkin

*cough*goa’uld*cough*


4 posted on 03/28/2018 7:56:37 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: BenLurkin

[P]reserved crystallized salts in Russia that are dated to this period..were extracted from a 1.9 km-deep (1.2 mi) hole in Karelia in northwest Russia.

I knew it was the Russians!


5 posted on 03/28/2018 7:58:13 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Reno89519

This is amazing. I went back in time 2.5322 years ago, planted a bunch of Kudzu, come back, and this article shows up.

I guess you CAN change the past. :)


6 posted on 03/28/2018 7:58:30 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: BenLurkin

Waiting for someone to post the Total Recall finale segment.


7 posted on 03/28/2018 7:59:14 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: BenLurkin

It was the great oxygen farting giant turtle, A’tuin
who created an oxygen rich world !


8 posted on 03/28/2018 8:03:29 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin

What I find amazing is photosynthesis only evolved one time. What if it had never evolved at all?


9 posted on 03/28/2018 8:08:00 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: BenLurkin

Genesis 1:1 is much easier to believe—maybe because it’s the truth from the Author of truth.


10 posted on 03/28/2018 8:11:08 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: lonevoice

ping!


11 posted on 03/28/2018 8:12:24 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: BenLurkin
There is only one First Cause.

Big Bang ... caused by God.

Later.

Great Oxidation Event ... caused by God.

12 posted on 03/28/2018 8:16:10 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: BenLurkin
Don't Panic. It took the builders a little while to get the oxygen contract in motion.


13 posted on 03/28/2018 8:18:45 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Moonman62
What I find amazing is photosynthesis only evolved one time. What if it had never evolved at all?

The cosmos would not have cared.

14 posted on 03/28/2018 8:24:08 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Slyfox
Great Oxidation Event

The phrase doesn't grab me. Can we call it the Great Oxidation Delivery? Life on Earth would not have occurred without GOD.

15 posted on 03/28/2018 8:26:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

May not be your fault but it demonstrates the enormous power and authority of Trump.


16 posted on 03/28/2018 8:29:48 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Frau Blättler”


17 posted on 03/28/2018 8:43:27 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the political party of the undead)
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To: BenLurkin

Here’s my theory: The Earth was a big snowball. Then asteroids missed the moon and clobbered the Earth. The resulting heat melted the ice and disassociated some of the H2O into H and O. Over time the H seeped into space leaving a lot of O2. At least, that’s what my model is telling me.


18 posted on 03/28/2018 8:43:44 AM PDT by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just like the old Total Recall movie?


19 posted on 03/28/2018 8:56:39 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: Moonman62

“What I find amazing is photosynthesis only evolved one time.”

as best as i can tell, EVERYTHING evolved only one time. Seems unlikely that none of the branches of the “tree of life” ever evolved again given that the singular driving force of the doctrinaire theory of evolution is that we exist inside a temporary, picoscopic pocket of negative entropy ...


20 posted on 03/28/2018 9:10:31 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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