Black Shale (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Black Shale

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This black shale, formed 450 million years ago, contains fossils of trilobites and other organic material that, by removing carbon from Earth's surface, helped support increases in oxygen in the atmosphere.

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Jon Husson and Shanan Peters/UW-Madison

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