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Diane K. Martin

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2016

Geo Logic

By Diane K. Martin

Flat years and fat years, mollusks and globed leaves. In the beginning of the Middle Proterozoic, oxygen spelled doom for many bacteria. This made possible the end of the Proterozoic—algae […]