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News Release 11-252
Path to Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere: Long Series of Starts and Stops
Rock cores from Northwest Russia provide new insights
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Panorama of Russia's Imandra/Varzuga Greenstone Belt where FAR DEEP drilling took place.
Credit: Victor Melezhik, Geological Survey of Norway/University of Bergen
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A field camp used by the FAR DEEP scientists; it's in the Pechenga Greenstone Belt.
Credit: Victor Melezhik, Geological Survey of Norway/University of Bergen
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On-site FAR DEEP research took place around the clock for five months.
Credit: Victor Melezhik, Geological Survey of Norway/University of Bergen
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Moving around in the Greenstone Belt often required back-up from military-based trucks.
Credit: Victor Melezhik, Geological Survey of Norway/University of Bergen
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Drill cores are loaded into a truck, to be taken to a temporary storage facility.
Credit: Victor Melezhik, Geological Survey of Norway/University of Bergen
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The researchers' work is described in the December 1, 2011 issue of Science Express.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2011
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