Mountain Growth Spurts May Have Sparked Complex Life on Earth
Researchers say two mountain-building surges helped drive biodiversity by sending nutrients to the oceans and creating conditions for key minerals.
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Mountains of the Earth: they grew to two stirones, 1 to 9 km high, and were able to boost oxygen and complex life, according to Science Advances.
Mountain growth spurts may have sparked complex life on Earth
Mountain ranges grew higher throughout Earth's history in two distinct "spurts" that correlated with the flourishing of biological diversity on our planet, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. The study suggests mountains may have played a key role in sparking complex life.
The mountains of the early earth were probably much lower than today's high mountains. An evaluation of rocks from former mountain roots shows two phases in which the earth's crust under mountains could become much more powerful. These changes coincide with increased nutrient inputs into the oceans and important oxygen increases and could thus have favored complex life. Vancouver (Canada). [...] The contribution mountains could have triggered co…
The results of recent research, published in the prestigious journal "Science Advances," point to new conditions for the evolution of life on our planet. A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia, Utrecht University, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History has demonstrated that mountain-forming processes may have played a fundamental role in the emergence and development of complex life on Earth. These analyses indicate that…
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