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A lowdown on oxygen

We can hope that the term 'palaeophosphatometry' won't catch on. The approach it describes has nonetheless delivered a plausible — if partial — answer to one of the main questions about Earth's history.

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Figure 1: Banded iron formation — a rich research lode for the biogeochemist10.

JOHN M. HAYES

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Hayes, J. A lowdown on oxygen. Nature 417, 127–128 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417127a

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