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Glaciation News

14 Mar 2017

When fire and ice met 700 million years ago – Know the story behind 'snowball Earth'!

Researchers showed that a decade of continual eruptions from this type of volcanoes could have poured enough aerosols into the atmosphere to rapidly destabilize the climate.

North Atlantic Ocean

06 Apr 2016

North Atlantic played key role in last climate transition

The North Atlantic Ocean played a key role in the last climate transition, says a study providing valuable insights into why large continental ice-sheets first grew in North America and Scandinavia some 2.7 million years ago.

Earth's surface

19 Jan 2016

Explosive volcanism drove major changes in 'Snowball Earth'

According to a new research, around 720-640 million years ago, much of the Earth's surface was covered in ice during a glaciation that lasted millions of years. Explosive underwater volcanoes were a major feature of this 'Snowball Earth'.

01 Dec 2015

Climate can grind mountains faster than imagined

The study, conducted by a team of scientists from 10 countries, culminated more than a decade of fieldwork.

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