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001 2013024610
003 DLC
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008 130708t20142014njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013024610
020 $a9780691145020 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0691145024 (hbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQD181.O1$b.C36 2014
082 00 $a551.51/12$223
084 $aSCI019000$aSCI020000$aSCI042000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCanfield, Donald E.
245 10 $aOxygen :$ba four billion year history /$cDonald Eugene Canfield.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press, [2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axv, 196 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aScience essentials
520 $a"The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Oxygen is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
505 0 $aWhat is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: biological evidence -- The early history of atmospheric oxygen: geological evidence -- The great oxidation -- Earth's Middle Ages: what came after the GOE -- Neoproterozoic oxygen and the rise of animals -- Phanerozoic oxygen -- Epilogue.
650 0 $aOxygen.
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology.$2bisacsh
987 $aSTEM backlog project.