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What Was The Earth Like 1 Billion Years Ago?

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Image Credits:

Gruinard Island By Kevin Walsh from Oxford, England – https://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/36190793/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2623790

Isle Royale By Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States – Lake Superior Shore at Isle Royale National Park, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84671906

Copper By James St. John – Copper and silver (Mesoproterozoic, 1.05-.1.06 Ga; Isle Royale Number 3 Mine, Houghton County, northern Michigan, USA), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39951133

By James St. John – Copper crystals (Mesoproterozoic, 1.05-1.06 Ga; Franklin Jr. Mine, Hancock, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39951107

Laurentian Mountains By Josyan Pierson – http://www.josyan.ca, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=925886

Great Rift Valley By Redgeographics – Map produced from scratch using public domain source data, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57359214

Amethyst By JJ Harrison (https://jjharrison.com.au/) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7515666

Great Lakes By Philroc – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54977685

Eukaryotes By Picturepest – Amöbe mit einverleibtem Rädertierchen – Fokalebene 3, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39165167

Cells Ojima K, Lin Z, de Andrade I, Costa M, Mermelstein C, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Beyeler J, Schnyder I, Katsaros C, Chiquet M, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Eukaryotic cells by Alexander Klepnev, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cyanobacteria Asai H, Iwamori S, Kawai K, Ehira S, Ishihara J, Aihara K, Shoji S, Iwasaki H, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Red Algae By Dagoberto E. Venera-Pontón, William E. Schmidt and Suzanne Fredericq – [1] doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00652, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112754576

By Eric Guinther at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=188826

By Emoody26 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3455016

Bacteria Fontana C, Lambert A, Benaroudj N, Gasparini D, Gorgette O, Cachet N, Bomchil N, Picardeau M, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Bicellum images By Authors of the study: Paul K. Strother, Martin D. Brasier, David Wacey, Leslie Timpe, Martin Saunders, Charles H. Wellman – https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00424-3, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105582202

Somerset island By LawrieM – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63304454

Bangiomorpha images courtesy of Professor Nicholas J Butterfield

Image of Black Sea Wreck courtesy of Dr. Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz/Black Sea MAP

Back arc basin By Zyzzy2 at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22037184
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