Time Lag Theory
The lag (which may have been as long as 900 million years) was between the time oxygen production from photosynthetic organisms started and the time of the oxygen catastrophe's geologically rapid increase in atmospheric oxygen (about 2.5–2.4 billion years ago). There are a number of hypotheses to explain this time lag:
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