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New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft of Oxygen for Eons
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| 3/4/04
Posted on 03/07/2004 3:45:13 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: PatrickHenry
Ancient anoxic oceans ping!
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posted on
03/07/2004 3:48:45 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: LibWhacker
Umm... I thought O2 was a poisonous waste for early life.
To: LibWhacker
Kerry's brain is in a similar state as I type.
To: VadeRetro
Once, pO2 increased, some of the critters' metabolism
could be used to make collagen (bones, skin, tendons; and then leave fossils).
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:00:20 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: BikePacker
Me, too . . . For very early life, that is. For nascent life. After it's established, though, you apparently need it to evolve higher forms. Thus, life arose early when O2 levels were low, then not much happened ito evolution until oxygen went through the roof.
To: Diogenesis
Yes. After a time there was a certain amount of oxygen-producing photosynthesis going on, but oxygen levels couldn't rise much until the surface iron ores were fully oxidized, etc.
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:11:33 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: *crevo_list; VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; LogicWings; ...
Oceanic PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:21:51 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(A compassionate evolutionist.)
To: LibWhacker
"
The scientists plan to continue studying molybdenum chemistry to answer that question, with continuing support from NSF and NASA, the agencies that supported the initial work."So, whether there's any relevance to their theories or not, they WILL be getting funding from you and me.
Nice work if you can get it.
To: PatrickHenry
The element molybdenum enters the oceans through river runoff, dissolves in seawater, and can stay dissolved for hundreds of thousands of years. By staying in solution so long, molybdenum mixes well throughout the oceans, making it an excellent global indicator. It is then removed from the oceans into two kinds of sediments on the seafloor: oxygen-rich and those that are oxygen-poor. Thanks Patrick. This is very interesting.
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:41:12 PM PST
by
Victoria Delsoul
(The Passion is true to the Gospel, those who claim to know it and disagree...simply don't understand)
To: nightdriver
So, whether there's any relevance to their theories or not, they WILL be getting funding from you and me.
Nice work if you can get it.
Nightdriver, have you checked with your moma to see if she smoked while she was pregnant with you?
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:42:28 PM PST
by
LaMudBug
To: VadeRetro
Here's a website about life in such an environment:
Life in anoxic worlds. There could have been lots of anoxic life in the early oceans. Gone now. Poisoned by oxygen. Our kind of life has adapted to what may be regarded as a toxic environment.
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posted on
03/07/2004 4:58:31 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(A compassionate evolutionist.)
To: PatrickHenry
Very nice! Had to go back and read the first two pages as well.
To: LaMudBug
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Nightdriver, have you checked with your moma to see if she smoked while she was pregnant with you?"Hey, Looziana crawdad, I can come up with evolution theories that are a lot wilder than this one.
Now if I could just get you to pay me to investigate them! (?)
To: VadeRetro
Karen Carpenter Ping!
Another Ancient anorexic ping!
Well, she's not using any oxygen now is she!?
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posted on
03/07/2004 5:55:02 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Kinda miss her. Never play any of her music, but she had a wonderful rich voice which might have been better used.
To: VadeRetro
you mean as in on key?
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posted on
03/07/2004 6:06:12 PM PST
by
js1138
To: js1138
Pulling her out of that stupid echo chamber her brother Richard had them in most of the time would have done it.
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping!
To: LibWhacker
Evolution didn't really get started until organisms learned to pronounce "molybdenum".
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posted on
03/08/2004 1:11:45 AM PST
by
jennyp
(http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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