most of earths oxygen comes from the oceans today.
most of earths oxygen comes from the oceans today.
where does most of earths oxygen come from today?
the oceans
before photosynthesis evolved, earth's atmosphere had no free oxygen (o). photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms that produced o as a waste product lived long before the first build-up of free oxygen in the atmosphere, perhaps as early as 3.5 billion years ago. the oxygen they produced would have been rapidly removed from the atmosphere by weathering of reducing minerals, most notably iron. this "mass rusting" led to the deposition of iron oxide on the ocean floor, forming banded iron formations. oxygen only began to persist in the atmosphere in small quantities about 50 million years before the start of the great oxygenation event. this mass oxygenation of the atmosphere resulted in rapid buildup of free oxygen. at current rates of primary production, today's concentration of oxygen could be produced by photosynthetic organisms in 2,000 years. in the absence of plants, the rate of oxygen production by photosynthesis was slower in the precambrian, and the concentrations of o attained were less than 10% of today's and probably fluctuated greatly; oxygen may even have disappeared from the atmosphere again around 1.9 billion years ago. these fluctuations in oxygen concentration had little direct effect on life, with mass extinctions not observed until the appearance of complex life around the start of the cambrian period, . the presence of provided life with new opportunities. aerobic metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic pathways, and the presence of oxygen created new possibilities for life to explore. since the start of the cambrian period, atmospheric oxygen concentrations have fluctuated between 15% and 35% of atmospheric volume. the maximum of 35% was reached towards the end of the carboniferous period (about 300 million years ago), a peak which may have contributed to the large size of insects and amphibians at that time. whilst human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, affect relative carbon dioxide concentrations, their effect on the much larger concentration of oxygen is less significant.
geological history of oxygen
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jeremy davenport (born 1970 in st. louis, missouri) is an american jazz trumpeter and singer based in new orleans, louisiana.









































jeremy davenport was born in st. louis, missouri into a family of musicians. his mother has been a music educator for nearly 50 years and his father worked for 40 years for the st. louis symphony. from a young age davenport studied and played with members and guests of the st. louis symphony, which included an early introduction to wynton marsalis.
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