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E_2_12 Verified Cataclysms & Chronology

E_2_12 — Great Oxygenation Event

The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) — approximately 2.4–2.1 billion years ago — was one of the most transformative events in Earth's history: the first permanent rise of free molecular oxygen (O₂) in the atmosphere, from n

Great Oxygenation Event GOE oxygen crisis cyanobacteria photosynthesis Paleoproterozoic
E_2_04 Cataclysms & Chronology

E_2_04 — Permian-Triassic Great Dying — The Biggest Mass Extinction

Approximately 252 million years ago, at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods, Earth experienced the worst mass extinction in its entire history — an event so devastating it has been called "The Great Dyi

Permian Triassic Great Dying mass extinction Siberian Traps volcanism
E_4_09 Cataclysms & Chronology

E_4_09 — Magnetic Pole Reversals and the Laschamp Event

Earth's magnetic field periodically undergoes geomagnetic reversals — events in which the north and south magnetic poles swap polarity. This has occurred at least 183 times in the last 83 million years, with the last ful

geomagnetic reversal magnetic pole Laschamp Event 42000 BP Adams Event Neanderthal extinction
E_1_08 Cataclysms & Chronology

E_1_08 — Ancient Supernovae and Their Cultural Impact

Supernovae — the explosive deaths of massive stars — are among the most energetic events in the universe, capable of briefly outshining entire galaxies. When they occur within our galaxy at distances of a few thousand li

supernova SN 1054 Crab Nebula Anasazi petroglyph SN 185 Vela supernova
R_1_09 Biology & Evolution

R_1_09 — The Great Oxidation Event: Oxygen, Cyanobacteria, and Earth's Atmospheric Transformation

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), occurring approximately 2.4–2.1 billion years ago during the Paleoproterozoic, was the most dramatic chemical transformation in Earth's history — atmospheric oxygen rose from trace levels

Great Oxidation Event GOE cyanobacteria oxygenic photosynthesis atmospheric oxygen banded iron formations