Chromium isotopes provide an eyebrow-raising history of oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere. Not least, it seems that oxygen might have all but disappeared half a billion years after its initial rise.
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Lyons, T., Reinhard, C. Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature461,179–180 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461179a
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