Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans
@article{Lyons2009EarlyEO,
title={Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans},
author={T. Lyons and C. Reinhard},
journal={Nature},
year={2009},
volume={461},
pages={179-181}
}Chromium isotopes provide an eyebrow-raising history of oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere. Not least, it seems that oxygen might have all but disappeared half a billion years after its initial rise.
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