Here are some papers on the subject of oxygenation of the atmosphere;
Berner, R.A., Beerling, D.J., Dudley, R., Robinson, J.M., Wildman,R.J. Jr., 2003. Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, 31, 105-134.
Canfield D.E. and Teske A. 1996. Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphurisotope studies. Nature, 382,127-132.
Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W., Narbonne, G.M., 2007. Late-Neoproterozoic Deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life, Science, 315, 92-95.
Garrels R.M., Perry E.A. Jr., Mackenzie F.T. 1973. Genesis of Precambrian iron-formations and the development of atmospheric oxygen, Economic Geology, 68:1173-1179.
one on biological implications
Acquisti, C., Kleffe, J., Collins, S., 2007. Oxygen content of transmembrane proteins over macroevolutionary time scales, Nature, 47-52
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