Ancient Earth (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Ancient Earth

Caption

A rock sample used to reexamine Earth's pre-GOE "whiff of oxygen" spans the Archean and Paleoproterozoic time periods. This illustration depicts what the Earth might have looked like billions of years ago.

Credit

Ozark Museum of Natural History

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