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Old 04-November-2008, 02:06 AM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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thanks for the link, Grant, though when I last studied it (the subject, not this paper), the O2 low point was in the Triassic, ~100Myr ealier ...

oh yes - it's in the abstract:
GEOCARBSULF's low (that 12% I mentioned) is actually in the early Jurassic. I garbled the timing in my previous post, by somehow mentally conflating the Jurassic and Cretaceous I'm not doing well today.
Oxygen oscillates around ~18% during the Cretaceous.

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