Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
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Earth's cooling drove deeper tectonic subduction, pulling carbon and sulfur into the mantle instead of consuming atmospheric oxygen—a pattern that aligns with three major rises in oxygen levels over 2.4 billion years.
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