Earth's Early Oxygen May Have Come From Rocks
Briefly

One broken piece of quartz in a physics lab could shed light on the history of life on Earth and the search for other habitable worlds.Between two and four billion years ago, water and freshly-broken rock could have kept early Earth supplied with small amounts of oxygen - just enough to steer early life to evolve the tools to thrive in a more oxygen-rich environment.
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