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Newcastle University

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The research investigates a source of reactive oxygen associated with geological faulting; a potential oxygen source prior to cyanobacteria oxygenating the Earth’s atmosphere. This reactive oxygen may had a role in the evolution of life from an oxygen-free to an oxygenated world, and contributed to prebiotic chemistry in subsurface fractures prior to the origin of life.

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Jon Telling / Jordan Stone / Newcastle University

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