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ArticleNature2025

Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth's surface.

Haiyang Wang, Chao Li, Yongbo Peng, Junpeng Zhang, Meng Cheng, Xiaobin Cao, Wenkun Qie, Zihu Zhang, Matthew S Dodd, Mingcai Hou and 4 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Haiyang WangState Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation and Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China.ORCID 0009-0006-5786-4397
Chao LiState Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation and Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China. chaoli@cdut.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9861-661X
Yongbo PengInternational Center for Isotope Effects Research, State Key Laboratory of Critical Earth Material Cycling and Mineral Deposits, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. ybpeng@nju.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-6458-5552
Junpeng ZhangState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4248-2477
Meng ChengState Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation and Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7285-2307
Xiaobin CaoInternational Center for Isotope Effects Research, State Key Laboratory of Critical Earth Material Cycling and Mineral Deposits, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Wenkun QieState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Zihu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation and Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China.
Matthew S DoddSchool of Earth and Oceans, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4470-933X
Mingcai HouState Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation and Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China.
Malcolm WallaceSchool of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Ashleigh V S HoodSchool of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Timothy W LyonsDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8674-6775
Huiming BaoInternational Center for Isotope Effects Research, State Key Laboratory of Critical Earth Material Cycling and Mineral Deposits, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1979-4395

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Earth's surface underwent stepwise oxygenation before persistently reaching modern levels late in its history

Indexed as

Earth, PlanetOxygenAtmosphereBiological EvolutionCarbonatesGeologic SedimentsLifeOceans and SeasOxidation-ReductionOxygen IsotopesPartial PressureSeawaterSulfatesSulfur IsotopesCarbonatesOxygenOxygen IsotopesSulfatesSulfur Isotopes

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PMID40866706

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