Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History Science Essentials

"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"--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Donald E. Canfield, Canfield, Canfield Donald E.
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2013
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780691145020
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14502-0
• Numero di pagine: 216
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 16 x 24.5 x 2 cm
• Serie: Science Essentials; Science Essentials (Princeton; Science Essentials; Science Essentials (Princeton
• Categorie: Protein, NATURE / General, Evolution, Witwatersrand, popular science, Enzyme, Earth, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, carbon dioxide, ecosystem, Sediment, bacteria, seawater, Chlorophyll, Scientist, NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS, SULFUR, geology, year, Calculation, Meteorology & climatology, process control, Deep Sea, Meteorology and climatology, Geochemistry, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, biosphere, Weathering, Redox, Organism, Photosynthesis, molecule, Uraninite, sedimentary rock, plate tectonics, subduction, RuBisCo, Carbon Sequestration, Cyanobacteria, Geologic Time Scale, Nutrient, Early Earth, Methane, nitrogen fixation, Phanerozoic, Pyrite, Sulfide, hydrothermal vent, Carbon cycle, Water column, Greenhouse Gas, Isotope effect, Geologic record, Atmosphere of Earth, great oxygenation event, Volcanic gas, Proterozoic, Sulfate, Precambrian, Archean, Total organic carbon, Isotopes of carbon, Primary production, Sulfur cycle, gigantism, Neoproterozoic, Ediacaran, Methanogen, Ocean chemistry, Banded iron formation, Fractionation, Preston Cloud, Phototroph, Gaskiers glaciation (geology), oxygen evolution