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Marinoan meltdown [1]

The termination of the Marinoan glaciation 635 million years ago is one of the most spectacular climate change events ever recorded. Methane release from equatorial permafrost might have triggered this global meltdown.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2008
Graham Anthony Shields [2]
Nature Geoscience [3]
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Oceans and Seas [4], Climate Change [5], Climate Science [6], Global Warming [7], Climate Impacts [8], Glacial Melt [9], Australia [10]
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