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Old 03-October-2008, 12:41 AM
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Nick Lane lays out the basics in Chapter 5 of his wonderful book, Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Highly recommended reading.

http://www.nick-lane.net/Extract%20chapter%205.html
Yes, thanks, I've read it, and I would echo your recommendation.
I just pulled it off the shelf, and I see that his reference list handily overlaps yours, to a large extent.
He helpfully gives full titles and dates, so I'm seeing that your list mainly involves publications from the 1990s, dealing with an assortment of oxygen-related things: plant adaptations to fire, the flight of Carboniferous dragonflies, K-T impact effects, polar gigantism, and some of Robert Berner's older work using gas bubbles trapped in amber. Nothing so far jumps out at me as being both relevant to Mesozoic oxygen levels and up-to-date.

Are you aware of anything more recent, specifically countering Berner's 2005 model?

Grant Hutchison
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