Brown and copper wavy- stripped fossil

For #FossilFriday this is a fossilized colony of Cyanobacteria (Stromatolites). About 2.2 billion years old - from either Bolivia or Minnesota. Viva the #oxygenrevolution!

A recent study reveals that phosphorus, vital for photosynthesis, triggered the first major increase in Earth's atmospheric oxygen over 2 billion years ago, shaping life as we know it. 🌍🔍 Link: https://tinyurl.com/2blczdtf #OxygenRevolution #EarthHistory #PhosphorusCycle

The Great Oxidation Event: How Oxygen’s Rise Reshaped Our Planet, Not All At Once Earth's Great Oxidation Event: From a toxic, anoxic past to an oxygen-rich future, this pivotal planetary transformation was a complex, multi-stage process.

Earth's Breath: Deconstructing the Planetary Transformation Driven by Oxygen

#GreatOxidationEvent #EarthScience #AncientEarth #OxygenRevolution #FactRage #FactRageNews

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