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Sedimentary challenge to snowball Earth [1]

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Evidence from the magnetic field fossilized in sedimentary rocks suggests that, more than 600 million years ago, ice occupied tropical latitudes. A popular explanation for these findings, the Snowball Earth concept, envisages a fully frozen Earth for millions of years, caused by a runaway ice

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Philip A. Allen [2], James L. Etienne [3]
Nature Geoscience [4]
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Carbon Dioxide [5], Climate Change [6], Climate Science [7]

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