Role in Mineral Diversification
Recent research has shown that the Great Oxygenation Event triggered an explosive growth in the diversity of minerals on Earth. It is estimated that this event alone was directly responsible for more than 2,500 new minerals of the total of about 4,500 minerals found on Earth. Most of these new minerals were hydrated, oxidized forms of minerals formed due to dynamic mantle and crust processes after the Great Oxygenation event.
The Great Oxygenation Event in geological time ↓Great Oxygenation ↓End of Huronian glaciation Ediacaran Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Palæogene Neo-gene Palæoproterozoic Mesoproterozoic Neoproterozoic Palæozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic | -2500 | -2300 | -2100 | -1900 | -1700 | -1500 | -1300 | -1100 | -900 | -700 | -500 | -300 | -100
Million years ago. Age of Earth = 4,560
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