Field work (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Field work

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Researchers from Stanford and Dartmouth College carry rock samples back to camp along the Peel River. Rocks seen at their side and in the background are from around the time of the oxygen change, roughly 410 million to 405 million years ago.

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Erik Sperling

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