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Oxygen
A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield
- Hardcover201429.9524.00ISBN9780691145020216 pp.6 x 9 1/48 color illus. 20 halftones. 35 line illus.
- Paperback2015© 201417.9513.99ISBN9780691168364216 pp.6 x 9 1/48 color illus. 20 halftones. 35 line illus.
- E-bookISBN9781400849888
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? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. Canfield guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who have made key discoveries in the field. Showing how Earth’s atmosphere developed over time, Oxygen takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of the oxygenation of our planet.
Donald E. Canfield is professor of ecology at the University of Southern Denmark.
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- Winner of the 2014 ASLI Choice Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
- One of Nature.com’s Top 20 Reads for 2014
- One of Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2014
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