Thank clay for the air we breathe

• Autores: Jeff Hecht
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2538, 2006, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The explosion of complex animal life half a billion years ago may all have been down to clay. For billions of years there was oxygen in the air, but nothing like enough to allow multicellular life evolve. Clay minerals work like kitty litter, trapping and forming bonds with carbon debris from dead organisms.