The survival of pyrite grains transported in streams along with other Archean sediments shows us that bacteria-produced oxygen was
A) very rapidly building in the early atmosphere.
B) being taken out of the atmosphere by chemical sinks in early Earth.
C) not yet forming and would require more time for evolution to change that fact.
D) no match for the vast quantities of oxygen produced in other ways.
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