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2/2: #PlanetaryGeology: When did the Earth go from 2% Oxygen to 21% Oxygen? Uri Ryb, Nature Magazine

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2/2: #PlanetaryGeology: When did the Earth go from 2% Oxygen to 21% Oxygen? Uri Ryb, Nature Magazine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46660-7

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0:00.0

I'm John John Bachelor.

0:05.0

This is Hotel Mars episode and with David Livingston, my colleague and friend and co-host,

0:11.0

and we're exploring a particular planet that once upon a time had very low

0:16.4

oxygen level in the water, in the oceans and that planet turned into New York City.

0:23.0

So, that's a fun discovery, but now Diori, we're going to play a game.

0:28.0

The game is, we give you and your colleagues an unlimited budget.

0:32.0

What is it that you want to do next with your

0:34.5

revelation of that about 400 million years we oxygenated and up into that point

0:40.1

we were doing fine with very low levels.

0:42.8

What do you do next, Yuri?

0:44.8

So I think that an interesting aspect that, you know, needs to be to be exposed

0:50.6

is why the level of oxygen, you know, were finally rising. And there are several hypotheses

0:58.2

there that associate the, you know, rising level of oxygen

1:03.0

with evolutionary gaps that were maybe driven

1:10.0

by the supply of nutrients to the oceans like phosphorus or maybe with the

1:16.5

accommodation space for sediments on continents so I you know said before that in order to have oxygen in the atmosphere,

1:26.8

to have oxygen in the atmosphere,

1:29.9

it's not enough to have photosynthesis working.

1:32.6

You need to bury organic material.

1:34.4

So what they would do is try to reconstruct

1:40.6

the history of,

1:47.3

or sorry,

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