Lukas VF Novak on Nostr: What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700 million years ago? ...
What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700 million years ago?
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-giant-snowball-million-years.html
Duration of #Sturtian “#SnowballEarth” #glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing: Adriana Dutkiewicz et al. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G51669.1/633748/Duration-of-Sturtian-Snowball-Earth-glaciation
"Imagine the Earth almost completely frozen over. That's just what happened about 700 million years ago; the planet was blanketed in ice from poles to equator and temperatures plunged."
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-giant-snowball-million-years.html
Duration of #Sturtian “#SnowballEarth” #glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing: Adriana Dutkiewicz et al. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G51669.1/633748/Duration-of-Sturtian-Snowball-Earth-glaciation
"Imagine the Earth almost completely frozen over. That's just what happened about 700 million years ago; the planet was blanketed in ice from poles to equator and temperatures plunged."