A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation

Nature, Published online: 29 March 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03393-7

Sulfur isotope and iron–sulfur–carbon systematics on marine sediments indicate that permanent atmospheric oxygenation occurred around 2.22 billion years ago, about 100 million years later than currently estimated.

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