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Description
Major atmospheric changes radically transform Earth's surface. "Red Beds," those huge, rusty piles of uniformly oxidized iron mineral, form everywhere on the planet. BIFs stop accumulating.
The lucky among the anaerobic bacteria find mud flats and airless niches in which to survive. These relics of the Archean atmosphere still thrive in the 20th century – at the sulfurous smelling edges of the sea, in swamps, inside insects and inside us.
In oxygen-tolerant and now, oxygen-loving bacteria, grand innovations continue. Their mode of respiration is about to lead to new life forms emerging from a dramatic symbiogenesis.
Date Created
1997
Holding Institution
University of Montana--Missoula. Environmental Studies Program
Rights Statement
Rights Holder
© 1997 Stiftung Drittes Millennium
Item Type
Exhibit
Digital File Format
image/jpeg
Media Type
Text; Image
Digital Image Number
34_wtt_file02_20-39.jpg
Recommended Citation
Liebes, Sid; Mittelstadt, Laurie; Waugh, Barbara; and Brynes, Lois, "Panel 34: The Earth Rusts" (1997). A Walk Through Time - From Stardust To Us. 34.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/awalkthroughtime/34