Biogeochemistry: Early phosphorus redigested
Nature Geoscience 10, seventy five (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2884
Author: Simon W. Poulton
Atmospheric oxygen was maintained at low ranges all through large swathes of Earth’s early historical past. Estimates of phosphorus availability via time recommend that scavenging from anoxic, iron-wealthy oceans stabilized this low-oxygen world.